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Boris Johnson: London needs to prepare for extreme weather

Boris Johnson warns Londoners to prepare for extreme weather such as flooding and heatwaves  Comments 
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Boris Johnson closes India ‘embassy’ despite election pledge

Boris Johnson's 'foreign embassies' in Delhi and Mumbai have been mothballed amid claims the move will cost London millions of pounds of new business, it has emerged  Comments 
Transport union members protest to Boris Johnson and TfL at City

Boris Johnson accused of hypocrisy by Transport for London staff in row over pay

Boris Johnson was accused of hypocrisy by demonstrators — including a blond-wigged lookalike — outside City Hall  Comments 

Tess Culnane

‘Neo-Nazi gran’ hired as aide to BNP member on London Assembly

Grandmother working for the BNP at City Hall is feared to be behind plans to unite far-Right activists in advance of the general election  Comments 
David Ross

Sacked Boris Johnson adviser David Ross given World Cup role

Mayor's former Olympics adviser will join him in helping to bring the World Cup to England in 2018  Comments 


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Boris Johnson spends £500,000 to rebrand London

Boris Johnson has hired top design consultants to 'rebrand' London at a cost of £500,000  Comments 
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Boris Johnson ignores pleas as firms hit with maximum Crossrail tax

Thousands of London firms will see their business rates increased by a minimum of £1,100 a year after Boris Johnson decided to press ahead with the maximum possible levy to help fund Crossrail  Comments 

Met chief Sir Paul Stephenson, left and deputy mayor Kit Malthouse

Boris Johnson stands down from Met Police role as deputy steps up

Latest: Boris Johnson dramatically stands down as chairman of the body that runs the Metropolitan Police  Comments 
Boris Johnson and Prince Charles

City Hall backs down over Prince Charles letters to Boris Johnson

City Hall is forced to row back from claims that Prince Charles sent a handful of letters to the Mayor  Comments 

Eilidh Cairns

Boris Johnson urged: Stop this slaughter of London cyclists

Sister of cyclist crushed to death by a tipper lorry hits out at Boris Johnson over the 'needless slaughter' of riders on London’s roads  Comments 
Thames Estuary airport

Medway council attacks Boris Johnson's London 'island airport' plan

London Mayor Boris Johnson's plans for a London airport in the Thames Estuary are attacked by Medway council  Comments 

Veronica Wadley

Labour threatens action over Mayor’s ‘stitch-up’ of panel for top arts job

Boris Johnson faces an official complaint about his bid to give an ally one of London’s top arts jobs  Comments 
Rosie Boycott with pupils at Ambler primary school in Finsbury Park

Boris Johnson: Let’s grow fruit and veg in schools

Every school in London should start growing their own fruit and vegetables, the Mayor says  Comments 

George Osborne and Boris Johnson

Boris Johnson and George Osborne unite to warn City: Stop big bonuses

City bankers warned to cut back on bonuses as the Conservatives say bosses are 'kidding themselves'  Comments 
Jon Cruddas

Labour MP Jon Cruddas ‘could run for Mayor of London’

Labour’s Jon Cruddas is winning high-level backing to take on Boris Johnson in the 2012 mayoral battle, the Standard has learned  Comments 

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Cut 'excessive' bonuses, Boris Johnson tells bank chiefs

EXCLUSIVE: Boris Johnson has written to global banking chiefs urging them to scale back 'excessive' bankers’ bonuses  Comments 
Boris Johnson and Ken Livingstone

How Ken Livingstone has set his sights on winning back City Hall in 2012

Ken Livingstone has been drafted in by Labour to help fight the general election in the capital - and to try to oust the present incumbent at City Hall in a key operation dubbed "Get Boris"  Comments 

Bikes

Mayor’s £300,000 to get people cycling in London suburbs

Twelve councils in outer London are to receive £25,000 each to help them become 'cycling boroughs'  Comments 
Louise Casey

The Asbo Mayor? Louise Casey sets her sights on City Hall

Neighbourhood crime czar Louise Casey emerges as a possible Labour candidate for Mayor, the Evening Standard has learned  Comments 

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TfL 'wastes £20m starting then halting Tube projects'

Transport for London spent £20 million starting access projects at Tube stations last year only to down tools because it could not afford to finish the job  Comments 
Margaret Thatcher

Boris Johnson blames London's ‘crazy’ utilities roadworks on Margaret Thatcher

Boris Johnson pins the blame for the chaos caused by utilities firms digging up the capital’s roads on Margaret Thatcher  Comments 

City Hall

City Hall ordered to reveal details of £160m Games bungle

City Hall chiefs have been ordered to reveal key details behind a bungled London Olympics land deal which left a £160million 'black hole' in the 2012 budget  Comments 
Peter Mandelson

Lord Mandelson will enter mayoral race, says Ken Livingstone

Lord Mandelson emerged as possible contenders to stand for Mayor of London  Comments 

Yury Fedotov and Boris Johnson

Russia’s ‘question of principle’ over £3m unpaid congestion charge bill

Russia's ambassador to London has warned Boris Johnson over an attempt to force the Kremlin to pay £3 million in congestion charge fees owed by its diplomats  Comments 
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Boris scraps free rail on New Year's Eve to help plug £5bn budget hole

Tens of thousands of people will have to pay to travel home from central London by rail this New Year's Eve because transport bosses have scrapped the running of free trains  Comments 

Tube closed

New Tube services at risk in £1.5bn funding crisis

Vital Tube improvements plunged into doubt by a £1.5 billion funding crisis as the Mayor refuses to bail out repair firm  Comments 
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Boris calls for all refugees to be given English lessons

Mayor Boris Johnson launches a scheme to give all refugees English lessons to help them find jobs  Comments 

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Boris blocking Labour candidate for arts job

Boris Johnson faces a new political row with the arts establishment over the 2012 Olympics  Comments 
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Boris: Bankers have only themselves to blame for super-tax

Boris Johnson says London’s bankers will have themselves to blame if their bonuses are clobbered in this week’s pre-Budget report  Comments 

Jubilee Line

Boris Johnson demands answers over Jubilee closures

Boris Johnson demands an explanation for the continuing delays to the upgrade of the Jubilee line  Comments 
Congestion

Traffic-free days in Boris battle to cut pollution target

Cars could be banned from central London on designated days amid fears that Britain might not hit clean air targets  Comments 

Boris Johnson and Ken Livingstone

Boris does nothing to improve architecture, blasts Livingstone

Former London mayor Ken Livingstone launches withering attack on his successor's record on major architecture projects  Comments 
Nicolas Sarkozy

Sarkozy's attack is best way to boost City, tweets Boris

Nicolas Sarkozy's gloating about a Frenchman gaining powers over the City will stiffen the Government's resolve to defend it, Boris Johnson declared today  Comments 

Veronica Wadley

Boris aide's 'strong-arm' tactics over top arts job

Boris Johnson was accused of cronyism as new evidence emerged about his behind-the-scenes battle to appoint an ally to a key arts job  Comments 
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Boris Johnson breaks affordable housing pledge

Boris Johnson's key election pledge to build 50,000 affordable homes in London in his first three years in office will not be delivered, City Hall admitted  Comments 

Boris Johnson and Chelsea Barracks

Boris may face court over claims he foiled Chelsea Barracks plan

Mayor Boris Johnson could be questioned in court alongside Prince Charles after they were both accused of causing the collapse of Britain's most expensive housing project  Comments 
Ian Clement

Shamed Boris aide: Beijing spy lured me into sex

Boris Johnson's disgraced former deputy claimed he had been lured into a honeytrap by a Chinese spy while attending the Beijing Olympics  Comments 

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Boris demands more investment in London, the 'nation's engine'

Boris Johnson launched a bid for more cash for the capital saying investment in London is vital for the country's economy  Comments 
Veronica Wadley

Boris's choice for Arts Council post joins new advisory panel

Former Evening Standard editor Veronica Wadley has been appointed to a top-level arts panel weeks after being rejected as the best candidate to chair the Arts Council in London  Comments 


 

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