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LONDON, May 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Online betting [http://www.skybet.com ] firm Sky Bet have slashed Boris Johnson's odds of winning a second term as London mayor to 1/10 from 1/7 due to heavy support for the incumbent in the run-up to Thursday's election. Tuesday's poll from YouGov, who have an impressive record in predicting this election, gave Boris just a 3% lead but nearest challenger, Labour candidate Ken Livingstone, is friendless in the next London mayor...

LONDON, November 29, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- More than half a million records of the Capital's freemen and sisters online today - Ancestry.co.uk - Antiquated British trades revealed in newly digitised records, including 'scriveners', 'vintners', 'turners' and 'tallow-chandlers' - Collection features freeman from all over Britain, wanting to trade in London - Famous names include Rudyard Kipling, Benjamin Disraeli and Robert Peel...

LONDON, April 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Mayor Boris Johnson will outline his commitment to boosting the economic potential of London's outer boroughs in a keynote address at Property Week's Outer London Summit on 11th June 2009. He will reveal how outer London can play its full part in the city's economic success and bolster the capital's economic strength for generations to come. Late in 2008 the Mayor formed the Outer London Commission; an expert body of industry leaders tasked with...

LONDON, March 4 /PRNewswire/ -- The Outer London Commission, chaired by Will McKee, will unveil its interim masterplan for the momentous regeneration of London's outer boroughs at Property Week's Outer London Summit on 11th June 2009 in Croydon. Senior representatives of the Commission will detail the blueprint for boosting the economic potential of the outer boroughs and identify key areas for immediate intervention and regeneration. The regeneration of London's 20 outer 'forgotten'...

By Amol Rajan LONDONERS CAN find out how much robbery, burglary and car crime takes place in their areas by logging on to a new Metropolitan Police website. The site uses a colour code to highlight crime hotspots and distinguish between different boroughs. Browsers can zoom in and find out what is going on in areas covering just six streets. The site works in conjunction with the search engine devices Google Maps and Google Earth. A postcode box allows users to hone in on any specific area...

Please read in seventh paragraph , "won election to the newly created post of mayor in 2000," not "in 2004." By Peter Graff LONDON (Reuters) - London's outspoken Mayor Ken Livingstone was suspended for a month on Friday after being found to have brought his office into disrepute for comparing a Jewish reporter to a concentration camp guard. A spokeswoman for the Adjudication Panel of England which hears complaints against local authorities, said it had suspended Livingstone, 60, for...

By Peter Graff LONDON (Reuters) - London's outspoken Mayor Ken Livingstone was suspended for a month on Friday for comparing a Jewish reporter to a concentration camp guard, a verdict the mayor said struck "at the heart of democracy." A three-person panel which hears complaints against local authorities ruled in a case brought by a Jewish group that Livingstone, 60, had brought his office into disrepute. It ordered him suspended for four weeks from March 1. "Three members of a body that...

By Peter Graff LONDON (Reuters) - London's outspoken Mayor Ken Livingstone was suspended for a month on Friday after being found to have brought his office into disrepute for comparing a Jewish reporter to a concentration camp guard. A spokeswoman for the Adjudication Panel of England which hears complaints against local authorities, said it had suspended Livingstone, 60, for four weeks from March 1 in a case brought by a Jewish group. The mayor, one of Britain's most colorful and...

By Kieran Doherty HEMEL HEMPSTEAD (Reuters) - Firefighters extinguished all major blazes and began mopping up on Tuesday after a three-day inferno at a fuel depot north of London. But even as the final flames were damped down a major row erupted over the preparedness of the local fire brigade to deal with the biggest peacetime blaze in Europe. "All the tanks are out now and they are just tackling fires in some pools of fuel on the ground. There is no risk of any further explosions or...

LONDON (Reuters) - British police sealed off an area around Kings Cross station in central London on Tuesday and said there was a bus in the area with smoke coming out of it. "I don't think we should jump to any conclusions," a police spokesman said, adding that a van from the bomb disposal unit was on its way to the scene as a precaution. A spokesman for Transport For London (TFL), which oversees the city's transit network, said the alert was on "a number 205 bus in the vicinity of Kings...