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News. Because even the queen can’t stop stuff happening.

Well, that didn’t take long then: Britain’s new coalition government (let’s call them the Torycrats) has moved swiftly to announce that the third runway project at Heathrow airport has been cancelled. Both the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats made the promise to scrap the project …

When people tell us they were born in 1994, it makes us pull our face into some kind of ugly shape with utter disgust. We’ve done that right now when listening to 15 year old Daisy Dares You. Just signed to Jive Records, we’re letting …

Image by Matt From London from the Londonist Flickr pool Newspapers are reeling today in the wake of the news that – ohmigod – Queen Sophia of Spain used Ryanair to travel between London and Santander. Her Spanish Maj braved the hellhole that otherwise bills …

We’re flying less: it’s official. Figures from BAA show falling passenger numbers during 2008, dropping off sharply towards the end of the year as economic gloom began to bite. Comparing December 2007 to 2008, Heathrow’s passenger numbers were down 2.3%, Gatwick down 13.8% and Stansted …

Image courtesy of Simon Crubelllier via the Londonist flickr group Ground-shaking research into wobbly bridge syndrome: report published. Psst! Wanna buy an airport? Stansted and Gatwick are reputedly coming up for grabs. The Beeb has ‘fessed to spending £45,000 on the Merlin launch party. Where’s …

Protesters managed to close Stansted’s runway for several hours this morning to highlight aviation’s impact on climate change. About 50 members of Plane Stupid broke through the airport’s perimeter fencing using fancy technology – uh, boltcutters – and set up a barricade of concrete blocks …

Now here’s a funny thing. Virgin getting into bed with EasyJet. Talk about odd couples (although they say opposites attract and all that). Quite apart from anything else, orange and red don’t half clash. They’re not actually amalgamating, but rather teaming up to purchase Gatwick …

Of the industrial variety that is. The District and Bakerloo lines may be a teensy bit affected today by two different disputes involving RMT members and something about sacked colleagues. Yawn. Meanwhile, on the buses, Unite says that its members are to strike on the …

And it worked. After months of news items devoted to Heathrow’s T5, baggage mishaps, proposed terminal and runway expansions, and Greenpeace protests, the UK’s third busiest airport has finally said to hell with all that and made its own bid for a bit of attention. …