Andrew Gilligan

05.01.10

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...
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11.09.09

Exclusive: The council at the centre of the Baby P scandal sent a foster child to live with the ringleader of the airline bomb plotters

09.09.09

The wife-killer allowed to take the Knowledge exam to become a black cabbie is already driving passengers on the streets of the capital

04.09.09

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

02.09.09

Convicted killer and paranoid schizophrenic allowed to study 'the knowledge' to become black cab driver despite public safety fears

28.08.09

Here are four words you don't much see, so make the most of them: God bless Greenwich Council

17.08.09

Next year, the French capital’s equivalent of the Central line will be fully automated with no disruption to passengers

12.08.09

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

27.07.09

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

16.07.09

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...
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14.07.09

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...
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10.07.09

Serving GLA officials and Ken  Livingstone’s former race adviser, Lee Jasper, are condemned in an official report by the district auditor...
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25.06.09

The Mayor should not hope to diminish the Ian Clement scandal by announcing improvements to the Tube

19.06.09

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...
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18.06.09

Its effectiveness in Iran is overrated but it is the belief in change that matters, and which is being spread online

16.06.09

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...
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29.05.09

London MP caught in a new expenses row after Evening Standard investigation finds she has been using taxpayers' cash to fund her constituency party

28.05.09

The charity which owns most of central Greenwich is seeking planning permission to demolish the town’s historic market and replace it with a...
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21.05.09

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...
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18.05.09

The backlash against the big parties is undeniable but it doesn't seem to be benefiting the BNP as much as you might think