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Property boom lands firms with �1.9bn rates bombshell

2009-11-23T10:37:55Z

London firms are to be hit with a �1.9billion increase in business rates over five years, it has emerged

Taxpayers hit with �13million bill for empty Eurostar terminal

2009-11-12T09:05:11Z

Taxpayers are to be hit with a bill of up to �13million to keep Waterloo's international terminal in mothballs, the Standard reveals

We must find ways to retain our teachers

2009-09-10T10:10:39Z

The new term has barely begun and already there is evidence of a growing staffing problem particularly in London schools

London will have million extra people in 20 years

2009-08-27T12:56:25Z

London will be crammed with nearly 2,000 more people per square mile within two decades

Tory anger at latest sleaze

2009-06-23T12:40:06Z

Tories at Westminster and City Hall rounded on Ian Clement amid claims that the scandal raised questions over the Mayor�s judgement

Tories 'need more top women'

2009-04-28T08:32:46Z

Pressure to appoint more women to the Conservative Party's top team was growing today

London suffering from shocking rise in rare 'Victorian' diseases

2009-04-15T08:28:06Z

London is in the grip of a startling rise in diseases associated with Victorian times

London MPs face pay probe as they prepare to pocket 9% increase

2009-03-31T08:21:39Z

A full inquiry into the scandal of MPs' pay and perks was speeded up as dozens of London MPs were set to pocket an inflation-busting rise of more than nine per cent

120% rise in child knife attack victims at A&Es

2009-03-30T07:52:40Z

The number of child knife crime victims in London has shot up by 120 per cent in four years, figures reveal

�50 on-the-spot fine for breaking royal park rules

2009-03-11T14:13:02Z

Cyclists, dog walkers and other visitors who break by-laws in London�s Royal Parks face being hit with �50 on-the-spot fines

Ticket offices hours will be cut further despite pledge

2009-02-20T09:38:04Z

Government claims to have protected London from railway station cuts began to unravel as new figures showed ticket office opening hours will be cut by 219 hours a week

Firm which gave third runway a clean bill of health has links to BAA

2009-02-13T11:13:03Z

A company which the Government hired to help make the case for the third Heathrow runway previously worked for airport owners BAA, the Evening Standard can reveal

I blundered in vote, admits MP fighting Heathrow expansion

2009-01-29T09:34:35Z

A Labour MP who has campaigned against Heathrow expansion spoke of his "huge embarrassment" for siding with the Government over plans for a third runway

Third runway is a health risk, admits Hoon

2009-01-28T09:54:52Z

A third runway at Heathrow will damage people's health, Geoff Hoon has admitted

Council services threatened by pensions deficit

2009-01-28T10:07:55Z

Public services could be under threat because of a black hole in London's council pension fund, it emerged

Dole queues double in commuter land

2009-01-23T12:28:45Z

Dole queues have doubled in a year in 12 commuter areas as the recession bites in the South-East

Hoon: Heathrow study on pollution 'over-cautious'

2009-01-05T10:00:38Z

Geoff Hoon has cleared the way for expansion of Heathrow airport by branding the Government's own warnings over pollution "over-cautious"

Politics

2008-10-01T16:08:50Z

The Tories are in the ascendancy and gaining influence. Already the key figures in Westminster and beyond are thinking about the post-Brown generation.

Londoners 'to be clobbered hardest by car tax rises'

2008-09-09T08:46:11Z

Motorists in London and the South-East will be hardest hit by Gordon Brown's road tax rises, according to analysis by the Conservatives

Putney MP is tipped for key role in Tory cabinet

2008-07-14T09:18:30Z

Two high-flying Tory women MPs are expected to be drafted into the shadow cabinet as David Cameron bids to build on his "feminist" credentials and sharpens up his team to face Gordon Brown

Darling faces Labour rebels over tax on gas guzzlers

2008-07-02T09:01:34Z

Alistair Darling faces a Commons showdown over moves to charge owners of gas-guzzling cars up to �455 a year

All-day flights threat across London

2008-05-19T14:24:57Z

Parts of London face overflying passenger jets throughout the day after ministers backed a decision to increase the use of Heathrow runways to deal with delays

New planning rules 'will push through third runway'

2008-04-28T12:43:19Z

Ministers are to fast-track expansion of Heathrow airport under new planning rules

New planning rules 'will push through third runway'

2008-04-28T14:02:40Z

Ministers are to fast-track expansion of Heathrow airport under new planning rules.

Sack BAA's tame DfT officials, say MPs

2008-04-03T07:43:58Z

Senior civil servants should be disciplined or sacked if they are found to have colluded with airport giant BAA over Heathrow expansion, says a senior Labour MP

Tories change course to fight expansion at Heathrow

2008-04-02T08:01:15Z

The Conservatives have announced that they are opposed to the further expansion of Heathrow airport

�20 charge to drop off passengers at Heathrow airport

2008-03-17T10:09:07Z

Drivers taking passengers to Heathrow face a £40 charge under secret plans being drawn up by the airport operator, the Standard can reveal

Comment: Aviation industry is under fire

2008-03-11T09:58:39Z

The deal between the Civil Aviation Authority and airports operator BAA on landing charges is bad news for holidaymakers

Ministers facing all-out fight over Heathrow data

2008-03-10T09:18:26Z

The Government is facing a legal battle over its plans to expand Heathrow amid fresh claims it colluded with the airport to hide noise and pollution increases

Ministers pressed to backtrack on Heathrow

2008-02-28T09:13:22Z

Ministers are under increasing pressure to rethink plans for Heathrow expansion after 18,000 people lodged objections to the plans