Shanking Saplings
By D I C K S D A I L Y A sad suite of 28 snapped saplings have been set in Chelsea Parade Ground by Chelsea College of Art undergrad student, Clare Lewis, representing the 28 young people killed by knife crime in 2008. …
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Arbor Ardour
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 …
Should London Have Grade Listed Trees?
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’ …
Maybe It’s Because I’m A…
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 …
Plane Tree Very Special
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 …
Ken Brings Back Ideas From India
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 …
