London’s poor air quality is the result of European pollution which has been carried to the capital by winds, Boris Johnson yesterday told the London Assembly.

The celebrated ‘time-eating’ Chronophage clock, which shows an irregular passage of time with some minutes apparently passing more quickly than others, is to go on display at London’s Science Museum next month.

London Assembly Member Caroline Pidgeon has welcomed an undertaking by Mayor Boris Johnson to revise a London Underground by-law banning guide dogs from using moving escalators. Pidgeon raised the issue at Wednesday’s Mayor’s Question Time session, just a week after a visually impaired member of public used People’s Question Time to tell the Mayor of the difficulties he has in accessing the Tube network.

The London Assembly is to hold a public meeting next week as part of a review into Mayor Boris Johnson’s progress in delivering current housing targets in the face of government funding cuts and changes.

City Hall has confirmed funding schemes totalling £450,000 to increase the number of tress in London and help develop new tree planting schemes in the capital. Funded by £4million of previously announced savings, the final round of bidding has opened for London’s street tree grant. The funds will allow boroughs and local groups to plant […]