News tagged with “boris johnson”. Found:
144 tagged news reports.
Your Search Returned 144 tagged news reports
Have we got trews for you? No, Boris, it's a London kilt
London :: United Kingdom | 2 days ago
Credibility
Boris Johnson certainly has the stature to carry off wearing a kilt. And hopes are high that he could be one of the first to don a new tartan being specifically designed for London and Londoners...Organisers are not just looking for exiled Scots but anyone...
Tags: Londoners, Boris Johnson, kings placing, United Kingdom, London, Cornish kilts and tartans, Tartan, Scottish dress, Trews, Kilt
Wapping revamp gets go-ahead
London :: United Kingdom | 3 days ago
Credibility News Corporation's Wapping revamp gets council go-ahead Redevelopment of News Corporation's 11-acre Wapping site gets green light from Tower Hamlets council Abul Taher Artist's impression of the atrium at the revamped Wapping complex. Photograph: News...
Tags: News International News Corporation, Redevelopment of News Corporation, Tower Hamlets council, London Paper, Wapping, Boris Johnson, plans permission, United Kingdom, London, River Thames, Business Finance, News International, London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Veronica Wadley's credentials for arts council job can't be enhanced by Boris Johnson's stubborness
London :: United Kingdom | 5 days ago
Credibility The above suggests to me that Ben Bradshaw was within his rights to veto Wadley on any grounds he chose ("does not agree"), Nolan principles or otherwise. It also indicates that Boris's first responsibility was to offer the post to the candidate he thought...
Tags: Veronica Wadley, Boris Johnson, United Kingdom, London, Evening Standard, Veto
Pandora: No Romanian holiday for Boris?
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 13 days ago
Credibility Boris Johnson became the first London Mayor to open the World Travel Market last week, riding by train to the venue to cut the ribbon. It's quite an honour; organisers prefer to steer clear of political endorsements (during his tenure, Ken Livingstone...
Tags: Boris Johnson, Aaron Johnson, Ronnie Corbett, Los Angeles, Bruce Forsyth, Bernie Ecclestone, Formula One
Mark Lawson imagines the media under the Tories
Salford :: United Kingdom | 14 days ago
Credibility If I may adopt, tongue-in-cheek, the title of the country's most popular show: It's A No-Brainer!" Few in the industry, however, share the prime minister's optimism. It is already a tense November in Westminster, as the parties prepare for the general...
Tags: BBC Trust, BBC news, Mark Thompson, David Cameron, BVC, Beeb Ltd, Boris Johnson, Radio, ITV, culture secretary, United Kingdom, Salford, Alan Yentob, Jonathan Ross, BBC, Television in the United Kingdom, Watch
Arts Council England chair blasts political interference
London :: United Kingdom | 17 days ago
Credibility It comes after a row over accusations that London mayor Boris Johnson attempted to appoint a "crony" as chair of the body's London office. Liz Forgan. Photograph: Linda Nylind/Guardian Liz Forgan called for the "arm's length" principle of Arts Council...
Tags: Arts Council England, Liz Forgan, Boris Johnson, United Kingdom, London, The Guardian, Evening Standard, Scott Trust, Veronica Wadley, Politics, Year of birth missing, Association of Commonwealth Universities, Roehampton University, Roehampton, Education, Arts council, Arm's length principle, Department for Culture Media and Sport, English art, Henley-on-Thames, Boris, Ken Livingstone, Anglo-Scots
Boris Johnson saves woman from street attack
London :: United Kingdom | 26 days ago
Credibility Boris Johnson rescued a woman from three "feral kids" who were wielding an iron bar, chasing them away on his bicycle, it emerged tonight. The mayor of London was cycling through Camden, north London, on Monday night when he answered the cry of Franny...
Tags: Boris Johnson, London
Towering folly
London :: United Kingdom | about 1 month ago
Credibility Boris Johnson's daft 'Eiffel tower' plan The London mayor wants to build an enormous monument in Stratford. It sounds like a folly of Olympic proportions Photograph: Paul Fryer/PA wire You need to pinch and punch yourself to be sure this isn't 1 April.
Tags: Boris Johnson, East London, London Eye, piffle tower, Stratford
Mayor Demands Probe Into Tube Worker Abuse
London :: United Kingdom | about 1 month ago
Credibility He tells the elderly man he is a "jumped up little git" and a "little girl". As the passenger boards the next train the worker is heard off camera saying "sling him under a train"...He said: "The train before the one on the film terminated at Holborn...
Tags: Boris Johnson, congestion charge
London bus and tube fares to rise
London :: United Kingdom | about 1 month ago
Credibility The London mayor, Boris Johnson , has announced sharp rises in bus and tube fares and the congestion charge to help plug a multimillion-pound hole in transport funding in the capital. London bus fares would rise by an average of 12.7% from January 2010...
Tags: Londoners, London Tube, bus fares, The United National Bank, tube fares, Boris Johnson, londoners bus, fares rises
Site Links
Site Topics
Contributions
- Report Your News
- Add your voice and contribute via your cellphone - check out how to Report News via Your Cellphone
- Blog Widget
- Widget for Blog Owner
