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 Misty via the Londonist flickr group TfL are practising their handwriting: they are to lose £400m from their IT budget. Business is booming…for the ambulance service. And that runway saga roars on… Thieves have managed to nick the personal details of every …
Be careful who you bump into: uninsured drivers are on the rise in London. A new memorial plaque honouring service men and women has been unveiled by Princess Anne in Westminster Abbey. That third runway is starting to look doubtful. Fried chicken: is it the …
Overseas students want to be near London. We can understand that. A depressed Croydon MP moonlighted whilst on sick leave from the Commons. He’s not planning to stand again. Boris has decided he loves skyscrapers after all. …which is good ‘cos we’re running out of …
The Tories have something different in mind for the proposed third runway at Heathrow: scrapping it in favour of high speed trains. Transport spokeswoman Theresa Villiers confirmed this morning at the Conservative Party Conference “that a Conservative government would say no to a third runway …
Alex the Croydon gangsta seems a little lonely. The third runway debate at Heathrow rumbles on. There’s yet another racism allegation for the Met. Jennifer Aniston flies into London. And then straight out again.. Aren’t we friends any more? Boris’ pledge to map the crime …
Two aviation stories in one day? Reports reach us that a major protest is taking place this afternoon near Heathrow. Now then – the row over a third runway is well-developed. In one corner, pro-expansionists cite the economic benefits to the local area, to London …
Four Greenpeace protestors mounted a freshly landed Boeing 777 on the tarmac at Heathrow this morning to protest against a 3rd runway and it’s implications for the “climate emergency”. BAA are calling the protest “unlawful and irresponsible” which it probably is but, more pressingly, how …
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