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Government vs Boris on air quality

April 14th, 2009 2 Comments

Hélène Mulholland at guardian.co.uk reports that the obvious contradiction between Boris’s policies encouraging more pollution by axing the third phase of the Low Emission Zone (not to mention the removal of the Congestion Charge Western Extension Zone) and the legal obligation for the UK to cut pollution in London or face huge fines from the [...]

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Boris on the (non-) Andrew Marr Show

January 18th, 2009 5 Comments

I’ve just caught up with this morning’s Andrew Marr Show, whose eponymous host was elsewhere. In his absence, Fiona Bruce tackled our typically underbriefed Mayor on a range of issues, including the only significant article about him in today’s newspapers, which he said he hadn’t even seen.
First, they covered the issue of Heathrow expansion. I [...]

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