Mayors Question Time
Mayors Question Time focuses on the Olympic legacy.
Mayors Question Time focuses on the Olympic legacy.
While pushing for even more cycle-friendly features in the Olympic Park, Jennie Jones amazes the Mayor by announcing that in the neighbouring borough of Hackney, 10 per cent of journeys are made by bike.
Superb… that's a stunning new fact for today… that's absolutely marvellous.
There is a bizarre debate with the Lib Dem Steve Knight, over what constitutes a new 'job' created by the Olympics and Paralympics. The context - did Boris Johnson say he'd create more jobs than he has? His response was, "you've got to be attacked for something…".
The Mayor of London takes a moment to dismiss the "absolute codswallop" put about in the election campaign that London has the dirtiest air in Europe - Paris, Rome and Barcelona are worse he says. In an aside he says that London has just staged the cleanest Olympics in history.
The unlicensed events unfolded on Saturday night at Clapham Common and Tooting Bec Common.
A 37 year old man who was taken to hospital after getting into difficulty in a stretch of water near Maidenhead has died.
Jonty Bravery, who is mentally ill, has been jailed for 15 years after throwing a six year old boy from the Tate modern balcony.