MayorWatch (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
City Hall has this morning announced that of Tim Parker, the businessman brought in by Boris Johnson to reform the Greater London Authority and chair Transport for London, will be stepping down from his position as �First Deputy Mayor�.
China travel industry news (Free subscription) | 18/08/2008
Greater London Authority - Press Release London’s tourism agency, Visit London, and the national tourist board, VisitBritain, today host a reception for Chinese media to showcase London and Britain as host city and nation of the 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games. Visit London’s Chief Executive, James Bidwell said that, as host cities for the Olympic and [...]
ConservativeHome's YourPlatform (Free subscription) | 18/08/2008
JP Floru is a City of Westminster Councillor and Prospective European Parliamentary Candidate for London 2009. The aim of Bob Crow’s latest political tube strike is to bring about the re-nationalisation of the tube network. The financial damage to the...
Green Car Congress (Free subscription) | 14/08/2008
Around a third of trucks over 12 tonnes operating in Greater London are significantly cleaner than they were one year ago, according to Transport for London’s (TfL’s) first monitoring report examining the impact of the Low Emission Zone (LEZ). (Earlier...
ifoAppleStore (Free subscription) | 13/08/2008
The future Apple store in the historic Covent Garden (London) district will occupy a spectacular space inside an historic building, according to planning and architectural documents just filed with the city of Westminster. The flagship location at the corner of James Street and The Piazza is one of the most historic and architecturally distinctive areas [...]
timrollpickering (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Until today I had never really heard of Murad Qureshi . Apparently he is a Labour list member of the London Assembly, that oh so important body to ours lives here in London. And nor had I much reason to blog about the recent by-election in Church Street Ward in the City of Westminster. But a piece on Labourhome caught my eye: Turnout and ethnicity in the Church Street by-election . Now claiming the...
Labourhome (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008
The by-election in Church St Ward on the 24th of July called after the untimely death of Councillor Tony Mothersdale, saw for the first time in living memory a Tory Councillor for this ward in the City of Westminster. writes London Assembly Member Murad Qureshi Coupled with the obviously very disappointing result for Labour in Glasgow east, it is easy to write Church Street off as another casualty...
The Open Rights Group (Free subscription) | 29/07/2008
Will the 2012 election for Mayor of London be counted manually? Yes, at least, that’s the assumption the UK’s elections watchdog would like City Hall to make. The Electoral Commission’s report into the London Elections [pdf] has called for the Greater London Returning Officer to carry out a cost benefit analysis of options for counting [...]
FrequencyCast Blog (Free subscription) | 28/07/2008
On Tuesday 29th July, a transmitter update for Freeview viewers in Cheshire, Greater London, Lancashire and South Yorkshire will break a number of older Freeview boxes. This update has already knocked out boxes in Scotland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Tyne Tees, Border, Granada, Anglia, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Hampshire, Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Wiltshire, Devon and Cornwall. Freeview set-top...
Stevie Wonder's Personal Blog (Free subscription) | 24/07/2008
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
London's mayor proposes to cut the Greater London Authority's (GLA) expenditure by 15%.
Top News Cast - World (Free subscription) | 20/07/2008
By Phil Hamilton The massive metropolis of Greater London is the capital city of England and the largest conurbation in the United Kingdom. London is an incredibly popular place to visit and this is due, in part, to the great many important tourist attractions and historically important landmarks to be found there. A quick look at a map of London will show you how densely it is packed with world class...
The Open Rights Group (Free subscription) | 18/07/2008
Yesterday the Greater London Authority’s Elections Review Committee met to discuss the conduct of the May 2008 London elections. The ORG 2008 Elections Report played an important role in their agenda and it was great to see it attached to the papers sent to all members. First up were representatives from Indra (the e-counting supplier) and [...]
Labour Matters (Free subscription) | 18/07/2008
The Mirror reports that Conservative London assembly member Brian Coleman “racked up a £4,147 taxi bill last year despite having a free travelcard” which allows him to ride on trains, tubes and buses anywhere in Greater London. “But his expenses included £650 on a single day’s taxis and a £244 charge going to an NHS [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 16/07/2008
The mayor of London, Boris Johnson, and his most senior deputy today distanced their administration from the findings of an investigation commissioned by Johnson into the financial stewardship of the Greater London authority and the London-wide organisations it partly controls
