Boris Johnson promises ultrafast 5G mobile data in London by 2020 July 28, 2014 Tomorrow Mayor of London Boris Johnson, will promise that London will be one of the first cities in the world to offer the next generation of ultrafast mobile connectivity (known as 5G) by 2020. Johnson’s pledge comes as part of his London Infrastructure Plan 2050, which will set out the infrastructure requirements for the [...]
Boris Johnson avoids talking tennis by pulling on his sparring gloves July 24, 2014 It looks like the “will he, won’t he” tennis match between Boris Johnson and the Chernukhins (the Russian couple who paid £160,000 at a fundraiser to play BoJo and David Cameron) will go ahead, after Boris said he was going to get in training for it yesterday. Now we think we know how he’s getting [...]
Boris Johnson’s sale of London police buildings frees up £125m and housing space July 3, 2014 London mayor Boris Johnson yesterday hailed the better-than-expected sales of under-used police buildings across the capital, which had raised £125m – more than three times the estimate. The figures, in the second annual report of the mayor’s office for policing and crime, showed that 32 no longer operational buildings were vacated and sold in 2013/14 and [...]
Boris Johnson’s Barclays bikes could be getting an animal print paint job June 26, 2014 When Barclays hands over the reins of its Boris Bike sponsorship next year it could well be passing them to an east London toy maker. TellTails is hoping to raise £37.5m on crowdfunding site Indiegogo to give each bike an animal print paint job and tail. We think they’re rather fetching… From the [...]
Boris predicts decade-long tech boom June 16, 2014 LONDON’S tech sector is growing by 5.1 per cent a year and will add another £12bn to the British economy over the next decade, mayor Boris Johnson said yesterday. As London Tech Week began, figures from South Mountain Economics and Bloomberg Philanthropies showed London has more people working in financial technology than any other city [...]
Pictures: The Boris Johnson-themed Japanese restaurant at County Hall June 11, 2014 London’s blonde-mopped mayor has had many a tribute to him in the capital; there’s Boris Bikes, there’s the oft-pedalled but as yet inexistant Boris Airport and now we’ve got the Boris restaurant. You might not have put Boris and Japanese cuisine together normally, but County Hall’s Izakaya Boris has. There’s a plastic [...]
Boris and Giuliani do their math June 10, 2014 THE mayor of London and former mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani put their heads together at Tower 42 yesterday, where they both met with the winners of London Count on Us primary school maths challenge. Ten-year-old pupil Azeezat Yusuff of Kender Primary School, in Lewisham, had thrashed Boris in a battle of the brains [...]
Boris Johnson praises finance hiring June 4, 2014 LONDON’S financial sector is ramping up its hiring of school leavers and recent graduates as part of Mayor Boris Johnson’s initiative to get an additional 2,020 trainees in investment management firms over the next six years. Aberdeen Asset Management, BlackRock and JP Morgan are among the 20 investment firms that have already hired 87 trainees [...]
Boris Johnson makes his final case for a new Estuary airport May 22, 2014 MAYOR of London Boris Johnson has made his final case for a new four-runway airport in the Thames Estuary, arguing that such a scheme could be built by 2029 and support 400,000 jobs across the country. In his latest submission to the government’s airports commission, Johnson insisted the airport “faces no insuperable obstacles to its [...]
Boris Bypass below-ground route revealed May 12, 2014 LONDON officials yesterday shed more light on where Boris Johnson’s planned £30bn underground ring road in central London would be built. The inner orbital tunnel, which is in “the very early stage” of planning according to City Hall, could offer two underground river crossings for motorists and link up to Hackney Wick. The Mayor of [...]