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The ‘national disgrace’ that is Parliament Square

Parliament Square and the area around the Palace of Westminster have been condemned as a 'national disgrace' ...

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How driverless trains could become a reality

Comment: The plans revealed today represent the biggest and most radical changes in the Tube's 100 year history ...

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Driverless trains on the Tube by 2021

Driverless Tube trains could operate across the network within 10 years, according to secret documents seen by the Standard ...

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Watergate exposé is Cameron favourite

Despite their own troubles with the press both David Cameron and Ed Miliband have named All The President's Men as their favourite political film ...

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Mayor ‘must sort out Tube’ after worst week for chaos

London Underground travellers have endured yet another miserable journey to work with severe delays on the Piccadilly and Metropolitan lines ...

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Clooney’s a tough act to follow, but Boris teams up with Ocean’s Eleven star

Boris Johnson will tonight party with A-lister George Clooney and tell him to spread the word in Hollywood that London is a perfect location to film a blockbuster ...

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Holiday? Go by train, says Ken

London's mayoral candidate says that "quite well-off" people should stop taking short-haul holiday flights to help the country live within its airport capacity. ...

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Ikea to sell eco-homes for Olympics

Ikea is building its first British housing development in Stratford beside the Olympic Park, where it plans to turn Londoners into eco-families ...

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TfL staff claim £127,000 a year to drive their own cars

Transport for London staff are claiming thousands a year to use their own cars for short journeys in some of the most polluted parts of London ...

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New theatre for the Astoria site in Oxford St revamp

The West End will get its first theatre built in a decade, plus shops, offices and flats, if a multi-million-pound regeneration of the shabby eastern tip of Oxford Street gets approval ...

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Tory ministerial aides threaten to quit in EU referendum revolt

David Cameron faces a rebellion over plans to order MPs to block a referendum on Britain's relationship with Europe ...

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Dale Farm: the first of many such clashes?

The Dale Farm stand-off is at last drawing to a close. Not before time: this battle of wills between travellers and Basildon council is a decade old ...

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Young Londoners lose ‘Pret’ jobs to migrants, says Boris

A generation of young 'native Londoners' is missing out on jobs at high street chains such as Pret a Manger, says Boris Johnson ...

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£120,000-a-year Tory tells desperate mother to ‘live in real world’

One of Britain's highest paid councillors told a single mother facing eviction to 'live in the real world' when she asked for his advice ...

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Met seizes hundreds of uninsured cars in blitz on rogue drivers

A thousand police officers flooded London's streets in a mass blitz on rogue motorists at the wheel of uninsured cars ...

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New Hoo hub ‘could beat aviation bottleneck’

Boris Johnson says for a £15billion airport on north Kent's Hoo peninsula deserve 'proper consideration' as he urged new Transport Secretary Justine Greening to address London's aviation crisis ...

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Business chiefs want ‘Crossrail 2′ underground link

London business chiefs have set up a panel to explore building a new rail link - dubbed Crossrail 2 - beneath the capital ...

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Ken Livingstone’s five-point plan to create 11,500 jobs for the young

Ken Livingstone has announced a five-point strategy, alongside Labour's Ed Miliband and Ed Balls, to boost London's economy and create 11,500 jobs for young people ...

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Schools fail to sign up for 2012 tickets

Tens of thousands of children are set to miss out on free Olympic tickets, according to figures obtained by the Standard ...

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9/11 artwork put into storage

A row has broken out after a piece of mangled metal from Ground Zero, presented to Britain as a symbol of peace, was removed from a London park ...

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