Plan B: ‘Find out what kids are good at. It will change their lives’ Youth, Music, London The Guardian The new High Speed Rail may be more than we bargained for. Stop HS2 London’s Conservatives have voted to privatise the fire brigade call center. Snipe. The Evening Standard are giving […]
The last Mayor’s Question Time of this Mayoral term yesterday was a bad tempered tribal affair. Londonist reports. Liberal Conspiracy are detecting a lack of the Tory brand on Mayor Johnson’s campaign material. Some Tories are becoming a bit jittery about their candidate. London Daily News. Meanwhile Snipe’s Adam Bienkov is skeptical about […]
Dave Hill is looking for your ideas for London on the environment. In Lewisham they’ve been out on the streets campaigning against chewing gum. Here photos to prove it. Hackney’s gum campaign is a little more refined, as you might expect. Hugh Muir in the Guardian has been talking about […]
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 […]
Girl’s Cricket Haringey Girls cricket team have made it through to the final of the Balfour Beatty London Youth Games to take place this week. Good luck to them. Haringey Independent. Chelsea All is not well in the Donkey Sanctuary, Abramovich is looking for his eighth permanent manager since 2003 after sacking Andre […]
The Guardian on the “crappy suits” threat to Saville Row. There are free energy audits for residents in Waterloo. SE1 On Wembley Matters they are musing that residents are a touch fed up of the Lib Dem ‘paper mountain’. There’s some interesting stats on public opinion on Occupy St Paul’s […]
Occupy activists at Finsbury Square are finding the St Paul’s refugees difficult. Evening Standard The New York Times explains Londoners. good luck with that. Cycling grants for all! Well, you have to apply to TfL obviously. The Guardian’s Dave Hill wants help putting together a truly London manifesto. HS2 means […]
Things are moving along in Hackney in the attempt to set up a People’s Supermarket. London Underground spots a ‘satirical magazine’ at their local tube. In Croydon the libraries are under threat. Check out the Upper Norwood Library Campaign. If you’re looking forward to London’s Overthrow China Mielville’s photo essay […]
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 […]
There’s an incongruous tower in North London. Londoneer investigates. East London Lines says teenage pregnancy is decreasing in East London. There a by-election in Spitalfields, Trial by Jeory considers the implications. Richard Osley wins the picture of the day award, from Kentish Town. We could see bike boxes in one […]
Never noticed this before. As strolling past Trafalgar Square I saw the statue of Charles the first....
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