Remember those beautiful looking London landmark bookends we proffered in Santa’s Lap last year? Well, good news, they are still available from the Hidden Art shop. However, come January 17th they may not be, as Hidden Art might be forced to close.
Yesterday’s shooting in Islington has now become a double murder investigation. Hamley’s has been raided. By immigration officers. Electric cars: London is to get about 1300 new charging points from next year. The LDA could rise from the ashes, if Boris gets his way. Saracens …
Photo by Gary Kinsman from the Londonist Flickr pool Many investment projects are at risk as the London Development Agency is set to lose around 90% of its budget, it was announced yesterday. Last week’s CSR confirmed the LDA would be scrapped by 2012 and …
The Astoria, now bulldozed to make way for Crossrail… hopefully it wasn’t for nothing. By roll the dice Transport secretary Phillip Hammond commits to full Crossrail service. Welcome news, but the fact it took him so long is a concern Boris Johnson is to scrap …
Crossrail are apparently resorting to bullying tactics. A Barking woman is being questioned following the death of her 12 year old son. The Guardian is getting more London-centric. So? Yay – we’ve got peregrine falcons nesting over by the Blackwall Tunnel. The Mayor is to …
One election promise Boris was swift to deliver on was scrapping the free mayoral newspaper The Londoner to save money, promising to spend it on priority parks and planting much needed trees. But quizzed at the LDA, Boris was accused of botching his promise by …
Image / k e n c h i e The London Development Agency, so often the locus of criticism for the excesses of Ken Livingstone’s tenure — it was treated like the “mayor’s personal cheque book” according to one audit — is causing problems for …
To London House (well, not literally: us what blog from our garrets by a candle’s flicker don’t actually have a budget, let alone one which stretches to Beijing), where a programme of upbeat seminars and lectures on lovable London is underway. The installation has been …
Astonishingly, London’s only 10m diving facility in Crystal Palace whose club is busy fast-tracking talent for 2012, and was responsible for the discovery of 3 of the diving team currently getting the jitters in Beijing, is facing closure due to rent arrears. It was already …
This is the damning conclusion of an audit into the London Development Agency under Ken Livingstone. During his eight years in power, millions were squandered on pet projects, approved without appropriate checks and balances, says the report, which was authored by Patience Wheatcroft at the …
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