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Even as the Tories ready their secret fleet of Sipson bound bulldozers, our transatlantic cousins at Gothamist are having their own airport related tomfoolery with an organisation calling itself the Manhattan Airport Foundation. The group’s proposition, conveyed by a very professional website complete with quality …

Londonist got in touch with some of the candidates for today’s election and asked a few Londony questions. Click the ‘European Election’ tag for more in this series. Where do you call home? I feel most at home in London. I grew up in Wandsworth …

Londonist got in touch with some of the candidates for today’s election and asked a few Londony questions. Click the ‘European Election’ tag for more in this series… Where do you call home? London (Bayswater) is definitely home for the last 28 years. What do …

Londonist got in touch with some of the candidates for tomorrow’s election and asked a few Londony questions… Where do you call home? Strictly speaking, Tower Hamlets is my base, but as I have spent much of the past 30 years shuttling round the capital …

Londonist got in touch with some of the candidates for tomorrow’s election and asked a few Londony questions… Where do you call home? London, E17 What do you think you can do for the city as an MEP? As London’s Green MEP for the last …

Londonist got in touch with some of the candidates for tomorrow’s election and asked a few Londony questions… Where do you call home? I was born and grew up in Islington and now live in Harrow, so London is very definitely my home. What do …

Londonist got in touch with some of the candidates for tomorrow’s election and asked a few Londony questions… Where do you call home? I was born in Lewisham and grew up in Kingston Upon Thames where I still live, but have spent my whole career …

European elections. Thur 4 June. London, as we all clearly agree, is one of the top cities in the European Union. Due to some snobby border drawing by our friends on the other end of the Eurostar it’s also the most populous city in the …

People can get in lots of trouble for saying that good things can come out of recession, but no doubt about it, the legacy of the last was not all bad. Here we start 2009 with the first of our uplifting investigations into the silver …

Dave Hill has broken the story that the Western Congestion Charge will be abolished in 2010, once all the legal requirements have been suitably dealt with. The Mayor has since issued a press release stating that they received 28,000 responses and 67 per cent of …