Isn’t this just marvellous? Every Tuesday, at 9.45am precisely, a 50-seat executive coach draws up at a bus stop outside Ealing Broadway station in West London. No one ever gets on and, a moment later, it departs - empty - on a 70-minute trip to Wandsworth Road in South London. Once there, it waits for two hours

Gordon Brown's decision to hold Cabinet meetings outside London is costing the taxpayer upwards of £200,000 a time, new figures suggest.

A London council announces plans to extend a scheme that charges the most polluting vehicles more to park.

An ad campaign for atheism in London is aiming to counter religious ads, one bus billboard at a time.

Reykjavik concedes that a High Court challenge to the freezing order made against Landsbanki stands scant success but says it would back a separate legal challenge brought against London related to Kaupthing

At least 195 children have died (photo from BBC) There are two important events this week that socialists and trade unionists should support: Rally: Stop The Gaza Massacre, Thursday 8 January 7.30pm Speakers Include Tony Benn, Tariq Ali, George Galloway MP Friends Meeting House, Euston Rd, London...

What happy times we live in, 22 Housing Associations are in “dire straights” according to a report in Inside Housing by “housing guru”, Tony Pidgley, the chairman of Berkeley Group. Genesis Housing is in hock to London & Quadrant (L&Q) for £20 million soon after losing their finance...

Cities will compete every four years for the title of British capital of culture as the government moves to give the arts a bigger stage in urban regeneration, it will be announced today. The winner would not only host a year-long arts programme, but also events normally confined to London such as the Turner prize, the Brit music awards, film awards, such as the Baftas, architecture awards, or the...

STOP THE MASSACRE NOW: ISRAEL OUT OF GAZA SATURDAY 10 JANUARY ASSEMBLE HYDE 12.30 PM MARCH TO ISRAELI EMBASSY, LONDON W8 Organised by Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Stop the War Coalition, British Muslim Initiative, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and many other organisations. For updates and more info:

MEPs from the Green Party and other parties have demanded an emergency debate in the European Parliament on the Gaza crisis - and have been rebuffed. Jean Lambert, London's Green Euro-MP, issued the following statement today: "An immediate ceasefire is vital to prevent the further loss of innocent lives. Israel cannot justify this continued assault and the devastation it is bringing to the pe...