City Airport

Monday news for you.

Because stuff just keeps on happening.

Lefty politicians and anti-expansion lobbyists discuss London’s aviation problems.

Weekend news snippets. Featuring David Walliams and cold chickens. Amongst other things.

The charity Practical Action has hit upon an interesting way of demonstrating how a rise in ocean levels would impact on London: they’ve created an alternative Tube map which shows the areas of the capital that would be flooded.

The approach to City Airport has been ranked one of the world’s most beautiful.

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Graffiti wars in North and East London as King Robbo continues his assault on Banksy. The Russians are to ‘hire’ Marble Arch for 2012 festivities. (WTF?) From Planet Boris: bankers should invest their bonuses in after-school clubs. City Airport has been declared worse than Heathrow …

BA is looking to expand its activities at City Airport. A student has been jailed having been caught with his stash somewhere very personal. Charles Saatchi seems to be having trouble giving away his gallery. Our royals are costing the Met lots of dosh to …

It looks like there’ll be no DLR at Bank for a big chunk of December, as TfL close the terminus to upgrade track and signals for the new three-car trains. Bank trains will apparently terminate at Shadwell, with travellers expected to shunt onto Tower Hill …