'Stinky Stratford' holds its breath

The soon-to-open Westfield shopping center is pictured in Shepherd's Bush, west London, in this October 27, 2008 file photo. The first thing visitors will see when they get off the train at Stratford station, which has had a 125 million pound refit, will be the new 1.5 billion-pound ($205.3 billion) Stratford City with its huge Westfield shopping mall, the biggest of its kind in Europe. Toby Melville / Reuters