Crossrail, the Olympic park, the East London line extension: London's grands projets would appear to have come into their own in the new era of Keynesian spending on public projects... more
British Airways takes the dogfight over East London to new levels after announcing the £240 million acquisition of 11 new state-of-the-art jets for City Airport... more
Promises of a "skills legacy" from the London Olympics were in doubt as it emerged that 20,000 migrant workers had registered for jobs in the main 2012 borough in th past year... more
Plans for £3billion worth of new transport links across London have been scrapped because of a lack of funding, the Evening Standard has learned... more
UNEMPLOYMENT is on the rise again. Today's figures from the Office of National Statistics are likely to show an increase to 1.75 million; some economists think that by Christmas it may rise to the psychologically significant figure of two million. This is not just a short-term result of the crisis in the banks but the result of a slowdown in manufacturing and services too.... more
Magistrates have issued a warrant for the arrest of troubled rocker Pete Doherty today after he failed to attend a court hearing on criminal damage charges - for the second time.... more
Laing O'Rourke says it is seeing off the current slump in the British and European construction industries through contracts to work on some of the most opulent residential developments in the Gulf... more
The husband of Amy Winehouse is facing a lengthy prison sentence after admitting brutally beating a pub landlord and trying to pervert the course of justice... more
One of London's biggest rail franchises went out to tender with train bosses told to come up with dramatic improvements in order to win the right to run services from Victoria... more
It is the sort of look that might stir even the corpses she normally presides over.
This is Silent Witness star Emilia Fox, wearing nothing more than leather boots and skimpy lingerie, in a raunchy scene from her new film Cashback, to be released on May 9 ... more
To say that Metronet is a disgrace is an understatement, yet like so many fiascos that beset our public life, those who were instrumental in the spectacular foul-up have not suffered a jot... more
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