London Assembly News
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London’s Heathrow Airport, Europe’s busiest, should be expanded with the addition of a third and even a fourth runway, a cross-party panel of lawmakers said.
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Britain has enough airport capacity to cope with its needs if it is utilized properly, the London Assembly Transport Committee said in a report published today.
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Conservative London Mayor Boris Johnson pledged to seek a suitable location in the U.K. capital for a statue of former Tory Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who died this week.
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London politicians will question the organizers of the Olympics today about the lack of tickets available to the public for popular events including track and field finals.
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In an oak-paneled church hall a few blocks from Big Ben, Paul Deighton, chief executive officer of the London Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, strides to the podium.
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Corruption in the U.K. police may extend beyond a handful of officers, a member of the watchdog that scrutinizes the London force said in the wake of the phone- hacking scandal at News Corp.’s News of the World.
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Three men were arrested by U.K. police as part of an investigation into allegations that private detectives hired by Tottenham soccer club spied on the organizers of the 2012 Olympics and West Ham United.
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Actor Hugh Grant and former U.K. Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott attended a dinner to honor Nick Davies, the Guardian newspaper reporter who in July 2009 broke the first story that phone hacking at News Corp.’s News of the World newspaper might extend beyond a “rogue” reporter.
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London Olympics organizers were criticized for “obsessive secrecy” after declining to give local politicians a breakdown of the number of tickets sold at what price until the Games are over.
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U.K. police arrested a 29-year-old man on suspicion of fraud as a London Olympic official alleged that soccer club Tottenham spied on the organizers of the 2012 Games and West Ham United.
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