Zipcar’s withdrawal from London represents a failure by the capital’s transport authorities, politicians at City Hall have said, with just one week left until the service is set to close. The car-sharing platform has about 550,000 members in London, who rent cars and vans by the hour or for a day via an app, and […]
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Greens’ mayoral candidate Zoë Garbett becomes London Assembly member
The Greens’ London mayoral candidate, Zoë Garbett, has joined the London Assembly after the resignation of the longstanding anti-Silvertown Tunnel campaigner Siân Berry, just days after she was re-elected to City Hall. Berry had been an assembly member for eight years but was last year selected as the Greens’ parliamentary candidate for Brighton Pavilion, the seat […]
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Silvertown Tunnel scrutiny row leads to assembly bust-up at City Hall
A row over scrutinising the Silvertown Tunnel has led to Labour angrily accusing the Greens and Liberal Democrats at City Hall of “being in bed with the Tories”. The disagreement blew up on Friday as London Assembly members met to decide who will chair the scrutiny body’s committees for the new term. Labour had wanted […]
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Clean sweep for Labour in Greenwich by-elections as Duvall wins sixth Assembly election
Labour have won all four by-elections to Greenwich Council, retaining their seats in Kidbrooke with Hornfair, Greenwich West, Shooters Hill and Glyndon wards, while Len Duvall has been elected London Assembly member for Greenwich and Lewisham for a sixth time. The council results mean Labour returns to having 42 seats on the council, with nine […]
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Put local newspapers on buses to help save London reporting, Assembly report urges
London buses should carry copies of local newspapers to make sure communities have access to local news, a report from London Assembly members says. The Assembly’s economy committee has been investigating the decline in local journalism in the capital, which in this part of London has manifested itself in the collapse of the firm which […]
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