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Ealing to get new police transport hub team

The Mayor announced today that Ealing Broadway would be the focus for one of 30 new police transport hub teams. Ealing will get an additional team of sergeant, PC and seven PCSOs to patrol the bus network. Shortly after the...

London mayor does not support Lewisham's bid to become first 20mph borough (8th Oct 2008)

This is a particular blow to Lewisham where there was genuine enthusiasm for being the first 20mph boroughThe London mayor has not supported a local authority which wants to explore the use of 20mph as the standard speed limit...

A whiff of trouble for chef Aikens

"If it blows to the west, I get a horrible smell." Sir Michael is one of scores of residents who say they have been affected by Aikens' restaurant, an eco-venture which uses only sustainable seafood. "He opens from early in the...

The Sleaze - Blair Witch Finder Project

Former Prime Minister Tony Blair looks set to make a shock return to British politics after his successor Gordon Brown offered him the post of Witchfinder General in the latest cabinet reshuffle. “The unregulated use of...

Hands off the London Olympic Games pot warns Mayor of London Boris Johnson

Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, has told MPs that he was against an early raid on the £1 billion Olympic contingency fund to ease fears over the funding of major building projects for the Games. Warning shot: Mayor of...

Janet Street-Porter: The growth industry that is now obesity

Obesity is big business these days. A conference on the subject this week has generated the usual doom-ridden headlines. Organised by the National Forum on Obesity, speaker after speaker produced scary statistics.

Letters: Debate needed after mayor's ousting of police chief

The mayor of London (Johnson defends decision to oust Met chief, October 4) has set a precedent that should promote debate before the proposals in the green paper on policing, published in July, are enshrined in law. His...

Simon Hoggart's sketch: The cheapo, cosy games

Boris Johnson yesterday unveiled the new budget, cheapo, shoestring Olympics - the easyGames. For example, he said he was "passionate" about the games, but he said it with a floppy-haired, Borissy twinkle, so you didn't quite...

If he looks like a cop, it's a problem

He looked ridiculously, absurdly, like a copper. If he had been wearing full uniform, and started his conversation with the words “Hello, hello, hello and what have we here”, I wouldn't have been more convinced that I was...

Pandora: Boris's former aide in religious row

Barely months after he was forced out of his job for making comments about Caribbean immigrants, Boris Johnson's former aide James McGrath is facing fresh controversy. The Australian spin doctor, who quit in June after saying...