In pictures: News International meets its Waterloo?

Say goodbye Wapping, hello Waterloo. The favoured destination for the new News International headquarters is a not-yet-built development just off Westminster Bridge Road. As one executive put it: 'Rupert wants a prestige building but is he willing to pay for it?' If not, they're all off to the Isle of Dogs Photograph: Stephen Brook/guardian.co.uk

With the Houses of Parliament straight across Westminster Bridge, Trevor Kavanagh can stretch his legs and won't even need to jump on a number 12 bus to get to PMQs. The potential new site means News International will be just across the Thames from the true centre of power in Britain today. Or should that be the other way around? Photograph: Stephen Brook/guardian.co.uk

Wapping was always a bit of a black hole as far as public transport was concerned, with that schlep from Tower Hill station. Waterloo beckons but, alas, by the time the NI removalists are ready to roll Gay Paree will no longer be a Waterloo destination - they'll have to settle for Weybridge, Surrey Photograph: Stephen Brook/guardian.co.uk

Red-top ambulance chasers need look no further - St Thomas' Hospital is just across the road. 'Nurse! Why is that new cleaner trying to take some snaps of our latest celebrity drug overdose?' But for most NI cadet journalists, the new proximity to the NHS will mean only one thing - student nurses at the pub on Friday nights! Photograph: Stephen Brook/guardian.co.uk

Florence Nightingale is expected to appear more frequently in the Times, the Sunday Times, News of the World and the Sun - as section editors bereft of inspiration pass her museum on the way to work. Somehow the Rupert Murdoch museum just doesn't have the same ring Photograph: Stephen Brook/guardian.co.uk

Sun editor Rebekah Wade is famed for taking her team on jaunts in far flung destinations to meet her readers - Waterloo will provide her with a host of new locations Photograph: Stephen Brook/guardian.co.uk

The roundabout at Westminster Bridge Road is the site of a massive redevelopment for a luxury hotel - facilities to include easy access to News International's showbiz hacks. Photograph: Stephen Brook/guardian.co.uk

Crime has fallen? Shurely some mistake. Any red top reader knows it goes up and up and up. This news will be of relief to journalists used to negotiating the notoriously unsafe Highway after dark - only the brave attempted Shadwell DLR Photograph: Stephen Brook/guardian.co.uk

It's goodbye to the Rose and the Caxton and hello to the Crown and Cushion, whose unpretentious, old-fashioned atmosphere makes it a shoo-in as News International's favoured boozer. Plus, there's a curry house next door Photograph: Stephen Brook/guardian.co.uk

With Wapping Pizza Express set to be a distant memory, maybe the trendy Walrus pub could fill the gap. The front bar has a pleasing international feel, just like NI, with flags festooned above the bar. Oh, and there's live comedy every Tuesday - acts should expect an increase in heckling Photograph: Stephen Brook/guardian.co.uk

Sun leader writers, who have been among the most vociferous in their support for the Iraq war, won't need to go far for a bit of lunchtime inspiration Photograph: Stephen Brook/guardian.co.uk

NI staffers are used to ugly structures but this building takes the biscuit. Rest assured, York House is for the chop if the site is chosen as the new location of News International's HQ. Fittingly, it used to house the Pain Relief Foundation Photograph: Stephen Brook/guardian.co.uk