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Outer London Boroughs Hold Key To Economic Recovery, Says Boris

February 3rd, 2009 1 Comment

Today saw the first meeting of the Mayor’s Outer London Commission, set up by Boris Johnson to pander to the councils of Barking and Dagenham, Barnet, Bexley, Brent, Bromley, Croydon, Ealing, Enfield, Haringey, Harrow, Havering, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Kingston, Merton, Newham, Redbridge, Richmond, Sutton and Waltham Forest. Boris believes that the outer London boroughs were neglected [...]

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Greengate: Boris 1 Reality 0

February 3rd, 2009 No Comments

Boris Johnson has been giving evidence to the Home Affairs Select Committee, saying he talked to David Cameron at 3pm on the day of Damian Green’s arrest.  Not content with this, he then decided to give some different evidence, adding a phone call at 12pm.  Which one’s right?  You decide – call 0800 WTF, calls [...]

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Bendy Latest: Bus Tender Confusion

February 3rd, 2009 4 Comments

While conducting one of my periodic trawls of the TED OJEU website I noticed that the bus tender results from last year have been posted.  Since the TfL page was stuck for a long time on 25/9/2008 I checked back there and sure enough they’ve updated that as far as the 18th December.  However, there’s [...]

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