It's not often I enjoy a good and fairly priced restaurant in London. But it's exactly what we came across last week-end when we went to have dinner in Tas, a Turkish eaterie on The Cut, close to Waterloo station -perfect to finish a day of rambling throug
Expel politicians from the classroom
EDUCATION and politics are as potentially explosive a mixture as gunpowder and a naked flame.
Croydon Council's plans to close four apparently failing schools are a case in point - with head teachers, parents a
The 2M group, representing the 2 millions people living under the Heathrow airport flight path (LHR is the airport annoying the most people in Europe) has managed to get great coverage:
Evening Standard: £30bn rail link to put Sheffield within three hours
Local residents are being urged to make a pledge to make their lifestyle more environmentally-friendly as part of a new initiative by Richmond Council. As mentioned in previous blog posts the Council has developed a series of pledges across a number of
New Barnet is scheduled to undergo a major makeover and pedestrianisation programme that will see the building of two new supermarkets - Tesco and Asda - in addition to the Sainsbury's that is already in place.
What are your views on this? Will this
Because the Government has imposed a "use it or loose it" rule for those precious Heathrow take-off and landing slots, some airlines such as BMI plan to have planes 'fly empty' to keep slots at Heathrow.
This shows the difficulty of governing in a free
So politicians want us to be green... Seems laudable, especially since it is badly needed, the country being bad at recycling, etc...
But then, it seems it always only translate in one thing for citizens: more taxes. Car are an obvious and easy targe
...for Mr. Walsh's bonus!
His arguments in this Richmond and Twickenham Times article dubious for the least:
1. The jobs impact has never been quantified by an independent survey
2. Comparing LHR alone to other airports is dishonest for t
All change in central Croydon - by David CallamRETAIL is in decline in central Croydon - long-term decline.This has nothing to do with downturns or alleged recessions, except that they will speed up a process that has been under way for a few years or more
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