We have a bumper crop for you today, partly catching up on a couple of day’s missed round-ups. Enjoy! Inside Croydon reports on concerns over Purley’s swimming pool. Downhills school in Haringey has had its governors sacked. Haringey Greens. The Haringey Independent reports that dog owners are spitting chips over […]
A few weeks ago at the Uprise Mayoral “youth” hustings Brian Paddick made what seemed to be an off-hand remark. He claimed that a vote for the Liberal Democrats could keep the far right BNP out of the Assembly. There was so much nonsense being spoken that night that it […]
Invitation to Keep London Moving – London Mayoral transport hustings Living Streets, Campaign for Better Transport and Movement for Liveable London would like to invite you to Keep London Moving – a London Mayoral transport hustings. Boris Johnson, Ken Livingstone, Brian Paddick and Jenny Jones have all confirmed that they […]
Labour have brought out a rather well done video explaining their Fare Deal policy. MP Stephen Pound narrates seemingly on the basis that his name is pound, ho ho, but he makes a goo fist of it none the less. Leaving aside the muzak and clip art noises of oh’s […]
On Monday Big Smoke spoke to the UK Independence Party London Mayoral candidate, Lawrence Webb. Somehow we managed to find the noisiest rooftop in London to put our questions to him, but the views were very nice so hopefully you’ll forgive the background noise. We were speaking on top of […]
This video, from Londoners on Bikes, encourages you to “Vote with your bike”. You can get involved by clicking here. Tour des Bikeshops from martinib.eu on Vimeo.
Round London Residents near the Olympics will have to apply for expensive parking permits or risk fines. Evening Standard. Apparently the Met Police are saying there will be no Olympics protests. Random Blowe investigates. Mrs Angry has a round up of the news from Barnet. In addition Citizen Barnet has […]
As we approach the London Assembly elections in May Londoners will naturally become more interested in what the different parties have to say to them about their vision for London. However, they’re far more likely to find out what the parties think the flaws of their opponents are than any […]
Londonist reports that Boris says that Ken wants to kiss Hugo Chavez. As the new routemaster was launched the Sack Boris campaign took to the streets with a bus of their own. The BBC says Johnson is still in favour of driverless trains despite a near miss only averted by […]
This weekend’s national Green Party saw members come together from across the country. Here, in the leader’s opening speech Caroline Lucas talks about her party’s prospects in the coming London elections.
Never noticed this before. As strolling past Trafalgar Square I saw the statue of Charles the first....
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