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Woman jailed for drilling holes in husband's luxury yacht

06.10.11
A woman was has been jailed for 18 months for sinking her husband's yacht on Valentine's Day in 2004... more

Hitman murder trial collapses after judge rejects supergrass evidence

19.09.11
Scotland Yard was left humiliated when the evidence of one of its most important supergrasses of the past decade was rejected by an Old Bailey judge... more

Halle Berry and Tom Hanks follow Brad Pitt to Glasgow

16.09.11
Just weeks after the filming of a Brad Pitt movie brought Hollywood glamour to Glasgow, the shooting of Cloud Atlas starring Halle Berry gets under way in the city... more

Go-Ahead on a roll as petrol prices lift passenger numbers

01.09.11
The economy might be on the wane but transport group Go-Ahead has seen no evidence of a slowdown... more

Londoners pick up £6,000 party bill as TfL boss gets on his bike

25.02.11
Boris Johnson laid on a £6,000 farewell party for the transport boss who introduced his bike-hire scheme - with Londoners picking up the bill... more

Biggest rack for Boris bikes opens at Waterloo

15.12.10
London's biggest Boris bike rack opened today at Waterloo station... more

First zero-emission bus just the ticket to help air quality

10.12.10
Bus that emits water instead of ex- haust fumes was today unveiled as part of London's first non-polluting fleet... more

Spirit of the Routemaster lives on in the heart of Macedonia

05.11.10
If you can't wait for London's redesigned Routemaster don't worry - there will soon be a strikingly similar one on the road... in Macedonia... more

TfL boss takes up lucrative post at Go-Ahead

26.10.10
Boris Johnson’s right-hand man in charge of the Congestion Charge should increase his pay fivefold after quitting for the private sector... more

Blackspot roundabout where cyclist died gets a redesign

30.09.10
One of London’s most notorious cycling blackspots, Elephant and Castle roundabout, is being redesigned to cut accidents... more

Boris Johnson warned bike hire scheme will be overwhelmed by demand

02.06.10
Inventor of London's first hire bike today warned Boris Johnson that his new scheme risked being 'swamped' when it is launched next month... more

Pick up a bike — but not at St Paul’s, the Eye or a major railway station

01.06.10
London's best-known tourist attractions have been excluded from Boris Johnson’s new bike hire scheme... more

Fixed fares up to £50 for a black cab home at night

31.03.10
Cost of hiring a taxi home from Leicester Square could soar to £50 per journey under a prepaid, fixed-fare scheme... more

400 places to pick up your hired bicycle, but not one at rail stations

27.04.09
The locations of 400 pick-up points for a new cycle hire scheme were revealed by Boris Johnson... more

Let’s spring forward into permanent happiness

30.03.09
OVERNIGHT, for almost everyone, life has suddenly got better. No, no need to check the name on the column - it's still me. I haven't had a compulsory brain transplant from Hazel Blears or even a free delivery of state-subsidised porn. ... more

Raid on illegal minicabs ends in 25 arrests

23.02.09
The shocking scale of illegal mini-cab activity in the West End was revealed in a police operation at the weekend... more

Mayor unveils winning designs for Routemaster

19.12.08
London's new Routemaster came a step closer as Boris Johnson unveiled the winning designs for the next generation of the bus... more

Whatever you do - don't renege on the Routemaster

03.07.08
Abolishing the bendy bus is about more than just transport. It is about abandoning a public-service ethos that valued technocrats over the people they served... more

Passengers suffer but TfL pays 123 staff over £100,000

25.06.08
London's top five transport chiefs earned more than £300,000 each last year despite continued delays and overcrowding on the Tube and bus network... more

TfL chief's threat to police over bendy bus 'criticism'

26.03.08
Ken Livingstone's transport commissioner threatened to cut the police's budget unless they stopped talking about the dangers of bendy buses... more

10,000 lorries are given mirrors to save cyclists' lives

11.03.08
Lorry drivers in London are being handed 10,000 safety mirrors free of charge to help them spot cyclists... more

Routemaster conductors will cost £8m says Boris

27.02.08
Employing conductors to work on a new fleet of Routemasters to replace bendy buses would cost just £8 million a year, Boris Johnson claimed today... more


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