If you've got special love for the trees you can show them you care by nominating your favourite urban tree in the Trees for Cities' Great Trees of London vote. Here's the current list. This time round they're looking particularly for inner London trees of notable physical character, historic significance or that are growing beautifully in a landmark location. The winning trees get a special plaque and you might end up with a tree......

Boris may be scheming to plant new trees, but it may not be enough to recover the foliage losses London experiences every year. According to Trees for Cities, 9,000 trees were felled in London last year, which would eat away the vast majority of Boris’ proposed 10,000 planting project. Trees for Cities works with local communities to create green areas in urban settings. The independent charity is currently campaigning to secure protection for city......

As one of a fair few carefully-calibrated measures in his first 100 days, new Mayor Boris announced today that, as promised, he would end publication of The Londoner, the Mayor's tabloid-style London free-sheet. If you never saw a copy, it felt a bit like a local newspaper. Only it was London-wide and not news at all - it was produced monthly by the Greater London Authority itself, not journalists, with adverts mostly coming from......

That certain night, the night we met, There was magic abroad in the air. There were angels dining at the Ritz And a nightingale sang in Berk'ley Square Ah, the romance! Vera Lynn immortalised the posh, garden square back in the 1920s but today it's hit the news for one specific, value-for-lots-of-money, tree. The Victorian plane tree, stretching a impressive 6ft circumference, has been valued at a staggering £750,000 in calculations to decide whether......

Don't worry. We're not going to have to cling to the sides of trains. Yet. Ken's been to Delhi, where he picked up some ideas about being cool on the streets. Unfortunately it's cool on the streets in a temperature related way rather than cool on the streets in a Fresh Prince of Bel Air way. Addressing an environmental conference, Ken said, We’re heading for some tremendously hot summers, people will start dying in......