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Action to stop more fires in tower blocks ‘cannot wait’

17.12.10
Urgent action is needed to protect residents of high-rise buildings from fires like the fatal blaze in Camberwell last year, a report warns... more

Boris Johnson breaks affordable housing pledge

03.12.09
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... more

Boris faces down green lobby with environment team cuts

25.03.09
Boris Johnson has been criticised over plans to cut his environment and equalities departments... more

Ken sets out his stall for 2012

24.02.09
Ken Livingstone's forthright interview with this newspaper today should serve as a sharp corrective for anyone who believed that the former Mayor's defeat by Boris Johnson last May marked the end of his political career... more

I’d love to fight Boris at the next election

24.02.09
He hosts a radio show, gives speeches and is writing his autobiography, but however relaxed his new image, former Mayor Ken Livingstone is still very much a political operator... more

Ken chalked up £13,000 expenses in his last year

17.07.08
An investigation has been ordered into how the Mayor can claim expenses after it was revealed Ken Livingstone spent more than £13,000 in his last year at City Hall... more

Suburbs at heart of Boris Johnson's blueprint for London

10.07.08
Boris Johnson put the outer boroughs at the heart of his blueprint for London amid claims he was simply paying back the suburbs for voting him into power... more

Sketch: you can elect a new Mayor but you can't get rid of Ken

21.05.08
Blithe Spirit is alive and well and living in City Hall.... more

Mayor names Cabinet members ... including his four deputies

06.05.08
Boris Johnson's revolution at City Hall continued apace as he appointed senior Tories to lead the police and fire authorities... more

Mayor's laughing all the way to Banksy - thanks to mystery bidder

07.03.08
A mystery bidder pays £195,000 for a painting by graffiti artist Banksy to raise funds for Ken Livingstone's re-election campaign... more

Tory runs up £4,000 taxi bill in nine months

05.03.08
The deputy chairman of the London Assembly has been heavily criticised after running up a taxi bill of more than £4,000 in nine months... more

Ken's green envoy has the biggest carbon feet

12.02.08
The woman charged by Ken Livingstone to spread his message about the need to tackle climate change has one of the biggest carbon footprints at City Hall... more

No threats could stop me making Brick Lane

30.10.07
Sarah Gavron, director of British film Brick Lane, explains why she went ahead with the controversial adaptation.... more


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