Jubilee line reopens but Metropolitan line at Finchley Road Tube station remains closed as fire crews continue to attend blaze above chicken shop October 26, 2015 Commuters to Finchley Road faced delays this evening, after both the Tube station and Finchley Road itself were closed as a blaze at an apartment block continued to rage into its 11th hour. Both the Metropolitan and Jubilee lines were closed, while the road was blocked off in both directions. However the Jubilee line has since reopened, according to [...]
TSSA union boss Manuel Cortes throws down Night Tube gauntlet to Boris Johnson October 26, 2015 A boss of one of the four main transport unions has thrown down the gauntlet to London Mayor Boris Johnson over the Night Tube, urging him to agree a meeting to restart talks. Manuel Cortes, general secretary of TSSA, has written to Johnson calling for him to meet union members to resolve some of the [...]
Boris Johnson says hoverboard ban is “ludicrous and nannying” and they should be legal on Britain’s pavements after consulting Transport for London October 26, 2015 London mayor Boris Johnson must be a fan of Back to the Future. Just days after the world celebrated Back to the Future Day (if you missed it, that's the future date Marty McFly travels to from the 1980s), Johnson has called for hoverboards to be legalised. The new tech devices, also known as self-balancing scooters, were [...]
London’s housing crisis: Instead of building east or building up, it’s time for managed release of green belt land October 26, 2015 The capital’s housing crisis is an issue often swept under the carpet in people’s cramped, sub-standard living rooms. Having just launched its Housing and Planning Bill, the government is continuing to reassure people about that its plans to roll out one million new homes by 2020 in order to solve the sticky situation in which [...]
Seven points to ponder from Jeremy Corbyn’s alternative to the northern powerhouse October 26, 2015 Jeremy Corbyn has been under pressure from more moderate Labour politicians for his economic plans, but what does he want to achieve in his desire to see the North returned to a "great engine of prosperity" and how would he do it? Here are the seven things to take from Corbyn’s “Northern Future” proposals. The [...]
UK house prices at their most affordable in 13 years… but not for Londoners October 26, 2015 HOMES in England and Wales are at their most affordable in 13 years, new research from Hamptons International claims, as households benefit from rising incomes and lower cost of goods. The estate agent’s latest Ability to Buy index increased by two per cent year-on-year in the second quarter to bring it to its highest level [...]
Politicians beware: 41 per cent of Londoners wouldn’t vote for a candidate who tried to ban Uber October 25, 2015 A new survey of Londoners has found that 41 per cent would be less likely to vote for a politician who tried to ban Uber, and two-thirds think Transport for London shouldn't have a say on how the car-hire app operates. The poll, conducted by Populus for Uber, is in response to recent TfL proposals, [...]
Liberal Democrat London Assembly leader Caroline Pidgeon announces bid to become Mayor of London October 23, 2015 The leader of the Liberal Democrat London Assembly Group, Caroline Pidgeon, today launched her campaign to become the Liberal Democrats' candidate for Mayor of London in the 2016 election. Visiting the Gower nursery school in Islington, she outlined the problems in London she would tackle if she got the job, including affordable childcare in the [...]
Green bonds: London is leading the world in financing the global low carbon shift October 22, 2015 While the dominant colour in London this week has been red for the landmark state visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping, today the London Stock Exchange will be adding some green to the palette as we host our inaugural China Green Bond conference in partnership with the Green Finance Committee of the People’s Bank of [...]
DLR workers have voted in favour of a strike October 22, 2015 Contract workers on the DLR have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a strike, as the dispute over "a range of serious unresolved issues" rumbles on. More than 92 per cent of staff across all grades on the Keolis Amey Docklands Light Railway voted in favour of industrial action, RMT said today. No date has been set [...]