It is currently leading a consortium to develop the vast Bishopsgate goods yard, mostly owned by the rail industry, just north of Spitalfields.

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Nicholas Roddis, 27, is alleged to have searched for instructions on the internet and to have stolen explosives from a railway goods yard in Doncaster.

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It will be located in the King's Cross Central development, which sits on a former fish, coal and grain goods yard and spans 67 acres.

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In August 2011, Roddis disguised himself as a railway worker and stole small explosives, known as fog signals, from a locomotive in a goods yard in Doncaster, it is alleged.

BBC: Jailed hoax bomber 'researched explosives' after release