Extra, Extra

By Rob Last edited 215 months ago

Last Updated 16 May 2006

Extra, Extra
  • A four-week trial of anti-terrorist screening devices is due to start on the Jubilee Line at Canary Wharf later this week (although there's a bit of dodgy scanning going on there already).
  • The Tories have sent Tessa Jowell a nasty letter accusing Labour of playing politics with the Olympics.
  • And the Conservatives aren't too happy about Hugo Chavez's visit either.
  • The final stages of this year's Tour of Britain will take in eight London boroughs over a 50-mile route between Greenwich and The Mall.
  • London car crime is going up , there was 94,000 items stolen from motors in the last financial year, a 7% increase on the previous year.
  • Image of London Mela courtesy of Orhan T via the Londonist Flickr group.