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Boris Johnson and Ken Livingstone last shared a platform late on the evening of 2 May 2008, when the newly elected Conservative mayor of London made his acceptance speech, in which he paid a warm tribute to his Labour rival after stripping Livingstone of
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A busy Tube station, shut for nearly three years, finally reopened today after a spectacular rebuilding job. Closed in March 2009, Blackfriars Underground station now has entrances both north and south of the River Thames. Able to accommodate up to 60% m
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It is one thing to show solidarity with the Scots by eating porridge for breakfast. But can you really face it on its own? Surely the thing is to add brown sugar or — better still — whorls of golden syrup. If you are like me, you take a childish pleasure
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19 February 2012 Last updated at 19:01 ET By Richard Black Environment correspondent, BBC News Reservoirs such as Bewl Water are dry - again London Mayor Boris Johnson is the latest in a long line of people to wonder why droughts have to be a regular occ
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For Chris Huhne, it was ‘wife trouble’. Now, his successor as Energy and Climate Change Secretary, Ed Davey, is facing his own domestic problems: ‘brother trouble.’ Tories had hoped that the nice-but-dull Lib Dem, who was promoted from middle-ranking bus
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One of the big issues that is always on the mind of residents, politicos and environmentalists in the Medway towns and indeed into the villages and even across the estuary to Southend, is the construction of either Boris Island or the Foster design on th
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London mayor Boris Johnson says he has no regrets over the comments he made about the city's St. Patrick's Day event and that he won't be issuing an apology. During an interview with the New Statesman magazine, Johnson linked the annual St. Patrick's Day
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A historic council building which was torched during the Tottenham riots will be handed to Boris Johnson to turn into an employment centre. Haringey Council agreed last week to sell the former council planning offices in High Road – which were attacked b
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Depending on whom you ask, it's an evil plot by Brussels to eviscerate the City of London; a progressive blow against socially useless casino finance; or a way of ensuring banks repay taxpayers for billions of dollars of bailouts. The financial transacti
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“Brendan Barber, the TUC’s general secretary, wrote to Gove in December expressing alarm that a booklet containing “homophobic material” had been distributed by a US preacher after talks to pupils at Roman Catholic schools across the Lancashire region in
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London Olympics organizers said they would respond to the assembly's request when ticket sales are done. "We will do that when we've sold the other 4 million tickets," organizing committee chairman Sebastian Coe said in Los Angeles, where he attended the
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This evening I took the unusual step of emailing my campaign’s supporters today to tell them what Boris Johnson’s campaign director has been telling the Tory candidate’s own backers. In fact I went one step further and forwarded the Tory email to our sup
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At a press conference held today in London’s St Mary-le-Bow church, the home of the famous Bow bells that define cockney identity, it was announced that rhyming slang would be granted official language status alongside English and French at the 2012 Olym
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Boris Johnson has come in for more thoroughly deserved stick in The Guardian today for hijacking Operation Trident to mount a pre-election tough policing blitzkrieg targeted at black youth. Not those with guns, which was what Trident was set up to tackle
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BORIS Johnson has been sent a clear message from commuters and politicians alike – stay away from our rail services. The Tory Mayor of London wants to take control of franchises operating in London's suburbia, taking more than 100 stations from Southeast
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People still hoping to get tickets for the London Olympics won’t get another shot at buying them until April. Word on the next offering came on the same day Britain’s Olympics minister rejected demands for a full accounting of sales. Hugh Robertson said
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London's Mayor Boris Johnson waves the Olympic flag during the closing ceremonies for the 2008 Summer Olympics at the National Stadium in Beijing on August 23, 2008. (UPI Photo/Terry Schmitt) Published: Feb. 17, 2012 at 3:06 PM RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, Feb.
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Mike Tuffrey, the distinguished Liberal Democrat London Assembly member, is displeased with Boris Johnson and with Transport for London (TfL), whose board Boris chairs. This is not unusual, but the particular reason for Tuffrey’s present annoyance distil
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Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (born 19 June 1964) is an English politician and journalist. The current Mayor of London, he previously served as the Conservative Member of Parliament for Henley and as editor of The Spectator magazine. Full Article
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The Mayor of London Boris Johnson, centre left, and Sebastian Coe, centre right, Chair of LOCOG, play a ball game with pupils at Chiswick Community School in London, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012. The Mayor and Sebastian Coe visited to tell pupils at the School how many free tickets their...
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The Mayor of London Boris Johnson, centre, shoots at a basketball hoop watched by school pupils and Sebastian Coe, right, Chair of LOCOG, at Chiswick Community School in London, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012. The Mayor and Sebastian Coe visited to tell pupils at the School how many free...
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London Mayor Boris Johnson (L) and London Fire Commissioner Ron Dobson (R) pause in front of display screens as they attend the opening of the new fire control centre in south London on February 1, 2012, ahead of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The London Operations...
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London Mayor Boris Johnson meets a fire service telephone operator as he attends the opening of the new fire control centre in south London on February 01, 2012, ahead of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The London Operations Centre brings together in a secure, bomb proof...
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London Mayor Boris Johnson (C) and British fire minister Bob Neill (L) view a computer screen as they attend the opening of the new fire control centre in south London on February 1, 2012, ahead of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The London Operations Centre brings...
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Mayor of London Boris Johnson (L) listens to chair of the The London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) Sebastian Coe (R) at the 'Get Ahead of the Games - Plan Your Travel in 2012' event in London on January 30, 2012. The event was to explain to commuters...
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Mayor of London Boris Johnson (L), chair of the The London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) Sebastian Coe (C) and British Transport Secretary Justine Greening (R) stand together at the 'Get Ahead of the Games - Plan Your Travel in 2012' event in London...
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Mayor of London Boris Johnson poses for a photograph at the 'Get Ahead of the Games - Plan Your Travel in 2012' event in London on January 30, 2012. The event was to explain to commuters and the traveling public across London and the UK how transport networks will operate during the...
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Boris Johnson, Mayor of London leaves on his bicycle after a press conference for the unveiling of a major UK transport campaign 'Get Ahead of the Games' at King's Cross station, which is currently undergoing development, in London, Monday, Jan. 30, 2012. With just under 200 days to go...
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Boris Johnson, Mayor of London during a press conference for the unveiling of a major UK transport campaign entitled "Get Ahead of the Games", in London, Monday, Jan. 30, 2012. With just under 200 days to go until the London 2012 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony, The new Get Ahead of the...
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London's Mayor Boris Johnson poses with dragon puppets during festivities to celebrate the Chinese New Year of the Dragon at Trafalgar Square in London January 29, 2012.
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Mayor of London Boris Johnson (R) gestures next to the Chairman of the London 2012 Organising Committee Sebastian Coe on January 26, 2012 as they arrive to an event promoting the London 2012 Olympic Games on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in the Swiss resort...
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Former British Olympic champion Sebastian Coe, left, Mayor of London Boris Johnson, center, and British Prime Minister David Cameron, right, speak during a session at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012, to promote the 2012 Summer Olympic Games. ...
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Mayor of London Mayor Boris Johnson speaks on January 26, 2012 during a plenary session on 'Olympic Games 2012 -- Celebrating the Six-Month Countdown' at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in the Swiss resort of Davos. Dozens of heads of government are joining the titans of commerce and...
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Mayor of London Boris Johnson (L) gestures next to the Chairman of the London 2012 Organising Committee Sebastian Coe on January 26, 2012 in front of an ice sculpture representing Big Ben, the London Eye and Canary Wharf. Johnson and Coe held the event to promote the London 2012 Olympic...
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Mayor of London Boris Johnson, left, and former British Olympic champion Sebastian Coe, right, speak to the media next to an ice sculpture to promote the 2012 Summer Olympic Games on the sideline of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012. The ice...
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Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron addresses a session at the World Economic Forum (WEF) as London mayor Boris Johnson arrives on stage in Davos, January 26, 2012.
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London mayor Boris Johnson addresses a session at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, January 26, 2012.
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London mayor Boris Johnson and Sebastian Coe (R), president of the organising committee of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, attend a session at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, January 26, 2012.
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LONDON - JANUARY 9: Mayor of London Boris Johnson stands on the high board as British athlete Tom Daley explains the dive of the women's synchronised diving pair during a visit to the Olympic Aquatic Centre on January 9, 2012 in London, England. Cameron held a cabinet meeting at the...
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London Mayor Boris Johnson attends on December 20, 2011 the lighting of a menorah to mark the beginning of the Jewish festival of Hanukkah in Trafalgar Square in London.
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London mayor Boris Johnson poses with a magic wand during a tour of the set of the Harry Potter films at the Warner Bros. Studio Tour in Leavesden, north of London December 19, 2011. The Studio Tour will open to members of the public in March 2012.
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London mayor Boris Johnson tours the set of the Harry Potter films at the Warner Bros. Studio Tour in Leavesden, north of London December 19, 2011. The Studio Tour will open to members of the public in March 2012.
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LONDON, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 16: London Mayor Boris Johnson sits in the driver's seat of a new prototype red double decker bus in Trafalgar Square on December 16, 2011 in London, England. The new bus design mimics some of the features of the iconic red London Routemaster bus and is...
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LONDON, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 16: London Mayor Boris Johnson waves from a new prototype red double decker bus at Trafalgar Square on December 16, 2011 in London, England. The new bus design mimics some of the features of the iconic red London Routemaster bus and is scheduled to come into...
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The Mayor of London Boris Johnson, centre left, and Sebastian Coe, centre right, Chair of LOCOG, play a ball game with pupils at Chiswick Community School in London, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012. The Mayor and Sebastian Coe visited to tell pupils at the School how many free tickets their...
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