Boris Johnson is Mayor of London

Elections 2008
Boris Johnson has won the race to become the next mayor of London - ending Ken Livingstone's eight-year reign at City Hall.
BBC News
Page last updated at 08:27 GMT, Saturday, 3 May 2008 09:27 UK

The Conservative candidate won with 1,168,738 first and second preference votes, compared with Mr Livingstone's 1,028,966 on a record turnout of 45%.

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Boris Wins!
By M@
Londonist
May 2, 2008

So, as a buoyant BJ sucks the glass testicle from Ken's lap, will London find itself in a sticky mess, or stand proud for a new era?

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Johnson snatches Tories' biggest prize
guardian.co.uk, UK - 9 hours ago
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T5 Opens - No Fingerprints

Heathrow's T5 open to passengers
Heathrow's new Terminal 5 has opened to the public as British Airways begins operating from the building.
BBC News
Last Updated: Thursday, 27 March 2008, 07:59 GMT

A BA flight from Hong Kong was the first to arrive at the £4.3bn facility. The first departure was at 0620 GMT, when a service left for Paris.

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'Hassle Heathrow' new terminal opens
CNN International - 44 minutes ago
With 60 aircraft stands actually attached to two new buildings, "T5" can handle dozens of planes at the same time -- including the new Airbus A380 ...

Terminal 5 opens its doors
Guardian, UK - 7 minutes ago
Travellers on the first arrival at T5, flight BA026 from Hong Kong, reported no major problems with baggage or long queues at immigration - two of the ...

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BAA axes T5 fingerprinting plan
Guardian, UK - 4 hours ago
Airport operator BAA will not be taking fingerprints of passengers using Heathrow's £4.3 billion Terminal 5 (T5) following doubts over the legality of such ...

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Yahoo! for Switzerland - Boo Hoo for London

Yahoo Will Move European Headquarters to Switzerland (Update1)
Bloomberg - Mar 13, 2008
... will move its European headquarters from London to the shores of Lake Geneva within 18 months, the Associated Press reported today. Yahoo fell 95 cents ...YHOO

Yahoo Will Move European Headquarters to Switzerland (Update2)
Bloomberg - Mar 13, 2008
Jonathan Thaw March 13 (Bloomberg) -- Yahoo! Inc., owner of the most visited US Web site, will move its European headquarters to Switzerland from London. ...YHOO

Yahoo Relocating European HQ From UK To Switzerland
TechCrunch, CA - Mar 13, 2008
Yahoo has announced that it will relocate its European head office from the United Kingdom to Switzerland. Yahoo plans to make the move to the shores of ...YHOO

Yahoo! to quit UK for Geneva
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - Mar 14, 2008
By Jonathan Russell The UK technology industry is to suffer a major setback with the move of Yahoo!’s European headquarters from London to Geneva. ...YHOO

Yahoo set to quit London offices for Geneva
Financial Times, UK - Mar 14, 2008
By Maija Palmer and Ben Fenton in London Yahoo, the internet company, is planning to move its European headquarters from London to Switzerland, ...YHOO

Yahoo abandons Blighty
Inquirer, UK - Mar 14, 2008
By Nick Farrell: Friday, 14 March 2008, 8:24 AM INTERWEB search outfit Yahoo has had a gutful of London and is shipping its entire European HQ to ...YHOO

London bus driver goes crazy: Real life version of "Speed"

WALTHAM FOREST: We prayed for our lives on ‘hell ride’
By jonathan moyes
Guardian
7:34am Saturday 9th February 2008

TERRIFIED pedestrians ran for their lives and panicking passengers were flung from their seats during "the bus ride from hell".

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