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- London Mayor scraps fuel deal with Venezuela
  Posted by senselessthing from Guardian UK
  London mayor Boris Johnson has scrapped a controversial deal between the city and Venezuela which helped to fund half-price bus and tram fares for Londoners on low incomes, a move called an attack on the poor by his predecessor Ken Livingstone.
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- Baggage chaos at London Heathrow to last into next week
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  The Ceylon Wars have begun! The high-tech automated baggage machines at London Heathrow's new airport terminal have begun by mis-sorting tens of thousands of our bags. Britain's aviation minister called continuing flight cancellations and baggage problems at Heathrow Airport's new Terminal 5 a blow to national pride.
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- Bonus pay and the Rolls Royce waiting list
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  Bonuses for London traders and bankers have doubled in the wake of the M&A, private equity and hedge fund booms and waiting list for Rolls-Royce vehicles is now five years.
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- New York Plans Surveillance Veil for Downtown
  Posted by Jeff from New York Times
  The Lower Manhattan Security Initiative, as the plan is called, will resemble London’s so-called Ring of Steel, an extensive web of cameras and roadblocks designed to detect, track and deter terrorists. British officials said images captured by the cameras helped track suspects after the London subway bombings in 2005 and the car bomb plots last month.
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- Clear Up the Congestion-Pricing Gridlock
  Posted by Jeff from New York Times
  This is a good article by London's Mayor on the benefits of congestion pricing: In 2003, London put in place a £5 (about $9) a day congestion charge for all cars that entered the center city (the charge is now £8). This led to an immediate drop of 70,000 cars a day in the affected zone. Traffic congestion fell by almost 20 percent. Emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide were cut by more than 15 percent.
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- Huge car bomb defused in central London
  Posted by Jon from Seattle Times
  Police in London's bustling nightclub and theater district today defused a bomb that could have killed hundreds after an ambulance crew spotted smoke coming from a Mercedes filled with a lethal mix of gasoline, propane and nails, authorities said. The bomb near Piccadilly Circus was powerful enough to have caused "significant injury or loss of life" — possibly killing hundreds, British anti-terror police chief Peter Clarke said.
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- London to overtake New York and rival Silicon Valley
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  Here's a warning to America. Within the next eight years, London will overtake New York as the world's financial hub, and it will rival Silicon Valley as a technology centre.
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lawbrat1 comments on:
77 sq. feet for $335K? Welcome to London

Jeff:

Have you heard IF this place sold.. and if so, for how much? And to think, in Seattle, we’d complain about that price on 1700 sq. feet…

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