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Electric car firms celebrate end to £25 a day con charge plans

James Murray, BusinessGreen, Tuesday 15 July 2008 at 10:09:00 Suppliers feared extending con charge exemption to low emission vehicles would reverse rising demand for electric cars The decision last week by London Mayor Boris...

Johnson's deputy hints at transport fare increases and job cuts

Boris Johnson's most powerful deputy has declined to rule out public transport fare increases or job cuts in his drive to increase efficiency in the Greater London authority and its main functional bodies, Transport for London...

Kenya: Libya Does Not Deserve to Be Country's Strategic Trade Partner

Posted to the web 14 July 2008 Donald B. Kipkorir Nairobi The Libyan embassy in Nairobi has finally admitted that its government bought Nairobi's Grand Regency Hotel. The Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission, by law, is mandated to...

[The Islamist-Leftist] Allied Menace

This version includes some materials cut from the published National Review version.] "Here are two brother countries, united like a single fist," said socialist Hugo Chávez during a visit to Tehran last November, celebrating...

London transport: Glitch may stop Oyster cards from working

Thousands of London commuters may find their pre-paid Oyster cards do not work this morning, after a computer glitch disabled card readers across the capital's transport system. The fault lasted for around five hours on...

Castro outfit and champagne in mayoral bid

13-Jul-2008

By Alex Barker and Charlotte Clarke Boris Johnson’s final push to be elected London mayor involved a Fidel Castro outfit, 48 bottles of champagne, 260kg of rubbish and 1.5m crime leaflets, according to records obtained by the...

The end of the world... in a sandwich?

The end of the world is nigh. Or, to be more precise, the end of the world for sandwichboard men is nigh, if they happen to earn their meagre £4.50 an hour humping placards around London's West End. Westminster City Council...

Ken Livingstone to fight 2012 London mayoral election

By Dipankar De Sarkar. London, England, 03:00 PM IST Ex-mayor Ken Livingstone invoked the spectre of resurgent racism at an event packed by Indian-origin Labour supporters here to declare his intention to fight the 2012 London...

£10K personal allowance

This last week has seen a variety of Tories promoting the idea that the low paid should be relieved from tax, freed from the benefit system and paid more to ensure that there are proper incentives for work. On Wednesday Maurice...

Jenny Jones: The Boris Johnson honeymoon is over

Will the Beijing Olympics prove to be the next stumbling block for London's mayor? Johnson was playing the role of defender of Londoners' wallets and was meant to showcase his new value for money approach to the Olympics. How...