Articles tagged ‘News’
Daily Dose 06.27
By Chris | June 27th, 2007 |
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* Metropolitan Police pay out £13million in compensation for traffic accidents involving their officers since 2002.(BBCNews)
* California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is last foreign visitor Tony Blair see’s at 10 Downing Street as Prime Minister before leaving office.(DailyMail)
* Clapham Junction station to have ‘intelligent CCTV’ installed to protect it against terrorist attacks.(Telegraph)
Daily Dose 06.20
By Chris | June 20th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
* London Mayor Ken Livingstone backs down for the moment after rejecting nine nominees to London’s fire authority because they were too white and too male. He probably thinks female Somali asylum seekers would make better candidates.(BBCNews)
* Tony Blair tells Parliament he regrets the early release of 25,000 prisoners because of prison overcrowding. Everybody else [...]
WiFi in London
By Chris | June 20th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
RSA, the security division of technology corporation EMC, have published their sixth annual security survey focusing on wifi in London, New York and Paris, the rate of adoption and the levels of security installed.
Among the results RSA found where that London had the largest percentage increase in access points at 160% (the 2006 survey route [...]
London-world’s second most expensive city
By Chris | June 18th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
The Telegraph has a story about the latest annual Cost of Living Survey of 143 world cities carried out by Mercer Human Resource, and people who live here won’t be surprised that London is rated the second most expensive city in the world to live in after Moscow.
Mercer compare the cost of over 200 items [...]
Daily Dose 17.06
By Chris | June 17th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
* International Olympic Committee inspectors give London ‘best ever report’, but don’t they always says that?(BBCNews)
* Conservatives say they’ll scrap free entry to museums if the win the next election. What a dumb idea.(EveningStandard)
* Britons owe £1,300,000,000,000 in borrowed money, and the vig just went up again.(Telegraph)
Daily Dose 13.06
By Chris | June 13th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
* Giant naked pole dancer painted on fields under the incoming flight path to Gatwick Airport, fantastic.(TheTimes)
* 40 Tube station ticket offices to be closed in order to make people use Oyster cards.(EveningStandard)
* Enquiry set up into why looking at London Olympics logo triggered epileptic seizures in 30 people.(Telegraph)
Take your paper with you
By Chris | June 13th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
As usual when the public benefits from something free there’s always a bunch of killjoys just around the corner waiting to complain about it. This time its green campaigners having a whine about the free newspapers such as Metro, LondonLite and the londonpaper that are handed out at most of the central Underground stations.
A group [...]
Daily Dose 06.08
By Chris | June 8th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
* Governor of New York call’s London’s congestion charge ‘the best in the world’. That’s easy to say when you don’t have to pay it.(BBCNews)
* Skateboarding to be an Olympic event at London 2012.(DailyMail)
* Deranged former Irish priest who assaulted runner in the Athens Olympics banned from attending London marathon until 2010 and the [...]
Daily Dose 06.06
By Chris | June 6th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
* Police checking petrol tankers coming into London over fears al-Qaeda suicide bombers may blow them up.(EveningStandard)
* One bedroom London flat on the market for £3million. 1,400sq.ft, a bargain.(DailyMail)
* US organic superstore opens first outlet in London.(ITVNews)
Daily Dose 06.01
By Chris | June 1st, 2007 | Add a Comment »
* All London buses to get DNA kits in a crack down on spitting passengers.(EveningStandard)
* Brazil captain and Arsenal player Gilberto Silva going for dual Brazilian/British nationality.(DailyMail)
* £80 on the spot fines for dropping a cigarette butt on the street come into force in England on 1 July.(Telegraph)
