Westfield opens East London mall

Westfield, the largest urban shopping mall in Europe will open in east London this week amid

hopes that foreign shoppers might bring in the cash that British shoppers seem unwilling to part with.

One financial expert said experts could not say that the project would have been cancelled had anyone been able to predict the economic slowdown, but with the capital awash with rising numbers of tourists, it could well be down to London's cachet with fashion-conscious Europeans to keep the stores afloat.