Three things Boris wants to build at Heathrow instead of a new runway March 31, 2014 The Mayor of London has been a vocal supporter of a new airport to the east of London, so much so that one of the options was at one stage nicknamed Boris Island. Today, Boris Johnson has set out three possible uses for Heathrow if it were to close and make way for an East [...]
Boris hits Twitter launching new yellow Barclays bikes and professing love for the Queen March 27, 2014 London’s favourite blonde bombshell took to Twitter this afternoon, with a new, grown-up profile pic, launching a yellow Barclays bike and answering questions from the Twittersphere. The canary-hued bikes, 101 of them to be exact, are to celebrate Le Tour de France’s British leg on 7 June (not because Barclays is ending its sponsorship – [...]
Boris urges developers to stop offering London homes to foreigners first March 11, 2014 Boris Johnson will urge developers and investors this afternoon to sign up to a new deal to stop giving buyers living abroad the first chance to buy London homes sold before they’re built, in a bid to get more Londoners onto the housing ladder. Speaking at Mipim, the property’s industry annual conference in Cannes, the [...]