I have been interested in recent newspaper reports suggesting I had lost, or was about to lose, one leg, two legs, an arm, a head - some people suggesting this went some time ago! - or even a fingernail. I am happy to tell you that, when I last looked, all of these items appeared solidly where they have been for many years. Michael Winner on rumours that he’d had a limb amputated. January 19......

Just when you thought London might be a city safe from domination by Americans getting paid heaps of cash to do absolutely nothing … … enter former CIA employee (in movies they always say "The CIA's like the mafia; you never leave" - but that's probably just movies) Bob Kiley. Kiley joined the CIA in 1963 after involvement in the anti-communist National Student Association. Bob came to the UK in January 2001 – within......

A public-spirited chap called Carl Court has provided the BBC with a dossier of photos that reveal the shocking state of many railway stations in London and the South-east. London stations that get named and shamed include London Bridge, Battersea Park and Charlton. It's depressing stuff, a record of a network crumbling under the combined burdens of public disregard and official neglect. In related transport news, it's hard to explain why we missed this......

Bob Kiley's compensation/consultation package for next year will amount to around £1 million (or around £3000 a day). Yesterday Ken denied that Londoners will automatically have to pay for Olympic overspend through their council tax. Remember those non-C Charge paying diplomats? Looks like they're going to get away with it. A controversial Brixton drug centre gets the go ahead. The Sun newspaper has sent a journalist to the very top of the new Wembley. Unfortunately......

Bob Kiley is to step down as London Transport Chief in January 2006. Epolitix.com has all the goss'. Angela Merkel arrived in London yesterday to play 'middle woman' between us and France over the EU budget. Cristiano Ronaldo will not face charges over the alleged rape in the Sanderson hotel in October. Patrick Stewart just can't stay out the news. Now he's gone and lost the only script for A Christmas Carol, due to......

It's an age old trick: if things aren't going right, blame the guy who's not English. And in London, where we're particularly bad at sorting out our transport sytsems it's always those 'foreign types' who end up the worse for wear when somethig grinds to a halt. Do you think Ken brought in Missouri-born, Harvard-educated Bob Kiley to try and sort out the tube because of his sucess with the systems in Boston and......

- Sir Ian Blair may be forced to resign over the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes. Now all he needs to do... is resign. - A 24-year-old bar manager from south east London has died in hospital from head, neck and facial injuries after a 'homophobic attack' on Clapham Common on Saturday. - Bob Kiley has called for Alstom to lose its Northern Line contract. The service probably won't be back until Wednesday. -......

Since a brakes scare last week the Northern Line has been pretty much crippled with almost constant 'severe delays' and crowded, interminable waits for anyone using it. The problems began when LU were forced to double-up drivers on the Northern Line trains after four (count them: four!) "incidents of emergency" i.e. brake malfunctions. Since last Friday the service has improved a bit with two-thirds of trains operating as opposed to just the half which......

With construction well under way at Arsenal's new Ashburton Grove stadium, everything looks set for it to become one of the best stadiums in the country to watch football. That's of course assuming you'll actually be able to get there to watch a game of football in the first place. It appears that instead of Drayton Park station and Holloway Road tube being upgraded as planned to the tune of £7.5m from the club......

In what seems to be a more and more elaborate plan to extract the most money possible from London’s motorists, the Commissioner of Transport for London, Bob Kiley wants to put in place a tag and beacon system to allow greater flexibility in charging on congested roads. The system utilises a tag placed on the drivers windshield that is tracked by roadside beacons which could be placed on top of lampposts or even surgically concealed......