The landlords of quaint Greenwich market think it would look much better torn down and replaced by a boutique hotel

Tranquil, genteel, stately. Tourist guides love to roll out the cliches when they talk about Greenwich. But beneath the visitor-friendly veneer, a battle has been raging over the future of the riverside district that attracts thousands of sightseers each day. In the eyes of many locals, that fight’s just seen a high-profile casualty with the government’s decision to back the redevelopment of Greenwich Market.

"The war on the motorist is over", say London councils. "We won."

“The War on the Motorist” is over claimed the government last month as drivers across London considered re-mortgaging their houses in order to fill their petrol tanks up.

“From now on, councils and communities will be free to set parking policies that are right for their areas” added the minister, as cash-strapped councils published plans to hike their parking charges even higher.

Goodbye Capital Radio: London’s original radio station sheds its hometown image

Think it’s a bit early for your new year resolutions? London’s best-known radio station has already made its promise for 2011—to outgrow the Big Smoke, and to end 37 years of being solely associated with London.

Put the kettle on: City Hall would like protests to be a thing of the past

When protestors smashed their way into the Conservative Party headquarters in Central London last month the Police quickly admitted that they had been caught off guard. For weeks similar scenes of uprisings in Europe had filled the news but for some reason the British had convinced themselves that nothing on that scale would occur here.