Boris Watch

From the ever-so-handy searchable list of Mayoral questions:

Phase out of Bendy Buses
[Main question]

Question number
1500/2008

Meeting date
16/07/2008

Question by Valerie Shawcross
Contracts for six bendy bus routes are due to expire next year. Can you assure users of these routes that the removal of the bendy buses will not result in a loss [...]

Via the Evening Standard comes this:

Young adults will be banned from buying alcohol in shops under a scheme being backed by Mayor Boris Johnson.
Off-licence owners are to be asked to stop selling drink to under-21s, even though they are legally entitled to buy it at 18.
The voluntary scheme will start in Croydon and is likely [...]

As part of his campaign to deglamorise knife crime, Boris has been attempting the utilise the celebrity market. After a meeting with Lily Allen, City Hall issued a statement saying that:
“Lily had a number of suggestions on how to challenge the notion that carrying a knife is streetwise or cool. She also had proposals to [...]