Through the heart of London, free of all the normal hold-ups, runs a six-lane highway, used to a mere fraction of its potential. In a report launched tomorrow, the think-tank Policy Exchange will show how the Thames could transform our travelling lives
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The wife-killer allowed to take the Knowledge exam to become a black cabbie is already driving passengers on the streets of the capital
A wife-killer who has been allowed to train as a London taxi driver was cautioned for assault less than three months ago, the Standard can reveal
Convicted killer and paranoid schizophrenic allowed to study 'the knowledge' to become black cab driver despite public safety fears
Here are four words you don't much see, so make the most of them: God bless Greenwich Council
Next year, the French capital’s equivalent of the Central line will be fully automated with no disruption to passengers
Fines for not having the right ticket to travel are on the rise — but they are often not even legal. Andrew Gilligan reads you your rights
London's local newspapers are being squeezed out by a new breed of council freesheets. And it comes at a huge cost, says Andrew Gilligan
Boris Johnson could be forgiven any annoyance at being attacked as a "do-little mayor" by Stephan Shakespeare, the man behind the pollster YouGov and the ConservativeHome website
Police question Boris Johnson's chief of staff, Sir Simon Milton, and his chief spin-doctor, Guto Harri, as part of their investigation into the Mayor's former deputy, Ian Clement
Serving GLA officials and Ken Livingstone’s former race adviser, Lee Jasper, are condemned in an official report by the district auditor into the City Hall scandal
The Mayor should not hope to diminish the Ian Clement scandal by announcing improvements to the Tube
The number of Transport for London managers earning more than £100,000 rose by a third in Boris Johnson's first year as Mayor, new figures out next week will show.
Its effectiveness in Iran is overrated but it is the belief in change that matters, and which is being spread online
As a reporter for Channel 4's Dispatches, I make the kind of programmes which stand to gain from the "top-slicing" of the BBC licence fee proposed today. Yet until recently, I would have been aghast at the idea.
London MP caught in a new expenses row after Evening Standard investigation finds she has been using taxpayers' cash to fund her constituency party
The charity which owns most of central Greenwich is seeking planning permission to demolish the town’s historic market and replace it with a “Bluewater-like” precinct
How would Arthur Daley have shifted this lot? A set of London’s bendy buses are up for sale — the first step of Boris Johnson’s pledge to eradicate the “miserable, inhuman and socialistic” vehicles from the city
The backlash against the big parties is undeniable but it doesn't seem to be benefiting the BNP as much as you might think
Swap your pad in London for one in Paris, New York, Rome, Barcelona… the new way to travel in 2010.
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