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LONDON: Britain's aggressive has told association of an flush accommodation development abreast the Olympic Park in east London it is installing a missile array on top of a belfry aural their apartment circuitous to avert the 2012 Amateur this summer.

The armpit is one of a cardinal about the basic the army is because as bases for surface-to-air missiles to assure the London amateur from an aeriform attack, the Admiral of Defence said.

It is the aboriginal time such missiles accept been deployed in London back the end of World War Two,
abominable some association at the Bow Quarter apartment development, sited in a adapted red-brick Victorian bout factory.

"There was no consultation, no one agape on the door," Brian Whelan, a 28-year-old journalist, told Reuters. "You aloof deathwatch up one morning, there's a advertisement cogent you they are activity to put missiles on the roof."

The admeasurement was boundless and had agitated his girlfriend, he said. "I can't brainstorm the affairs that would crave you to blaze missiles over a awful busy area."

Defence Secretary Philip Hammond aboriginal appear the affairs in November, adage Britain would chase the antecedent set by antecedent Olympics such as the Beijing amateur in 2008 breadth apparent to air missiles were stationed a kilometre south of its showpiece stadiums.

The defence admiral said in a advertisement beatific to occupants on Saturday it had called the aloft baptize belfry in the Bow Quarter circuitous because it offered "an accomplished appearance of the surrounding breadth and the absolute sky aloft the Olympic Park."

The belfry was in actuality "the alone acceptable armpit in this breadth for the HVM (High Velocity Missile) system," it added.

The rooftop missile array is one of a cardinal of amazing measures Londoners can apprehend during the high-profile antic festival, including restrictions on alley lanes for Olympic use and a aegis bill of added than a billion pounds.