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Published: 25 June, 2010
• WE hear a lot about the necessity of cuts to pay the nation’s debts.
So I wonder about the opening ceremony of the London Olympic Games.
The games are about...
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Published: 25 June, 2010
• FIFTY years ago the smog and pea-soup pollution affecting London only came to an end through the Clean Air Act.
Today we face a problem just as big.
The tiny...
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Published: 25 June, 2010
• THE coalition government’s first Budget demonstrates the perilous state of the nation’s finances and how the level of spending of previous years is no...
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Published: 25 June, 2010
• THIS week the No To Bike Parking Tax Campaign finally has a public hearing at the High Court over the imposition of charges for powered two-wheelers to park in...
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Published: 24 June, 2010
At 83,000 the UK’s prison population is the largest in Europe… so something’s clearly not working, argues Illtyd Harrington (above)
SOME years back,...
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Published: 18 June, 2010
• ONE of my proudest moments as Mayor of London was helping to put a dedicated local Safer Neighbourhoods police team into every community in London.
Today 630 local...
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• I AND my neighbours are appalled at the imminent felling of eight semi-mature established trees (mainly plane) in St Giles High Street.
They are important as part of the setting of the...
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Published: 18 June, 2010
• FOLLOWING the successful public meeting at St Marks, the North Mayfair Residents’ Group is now officially up and running.
We have formed an interim...
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Published: 18 June, 2010
• WE all knew that a period of belt-tightening was on its way, but why are children in Westminster bearing the brunt of the new Conservative-Liberal Democrat...
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Published: 18 June, 2010
• OBESITY among children in Westminster (‘Obesity is killing our kids’, June 11) should be looked at in the broader context of western leadership values of...
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Published: 11 June, 2010
• CELEBRATING National Vegetarian Week, Clare Latimer offered recipes for meals without meat (Review, May 28).
Her warning that “calves have to be shot at...
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Published: 11 June, 2010
• WHAT irony that a Chinese design firm was allowed to create Britain’s Olympic mascots (Made-in-China animates MP – and Soho, May 28).
The Beijing...
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Published: 11 June, 2010
• RENZO Piano quite calmly tells us that the building he demolished in order to build his new St Giles Circus development was “monolithic”’ and a...
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Published: 11 June, 2010
• I HAVE been looking for Renzo Piano “peering round a corner” of his new Central St Giles development, but so far to no avail (It’s a new Circus act!...
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Published: 11 June, 2010
The planned Bomber Command memorial will cause great harm to Green Park, says Juliet Lyle
MANY thanks to those who, years ago, planted trees in our streets and designed...
