City Hall Blog
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Why Walthamstow is called Awesomestow
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Guest blogger Helen Booth tells us why Walthamstow is called Awesomestow.
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Improve your resilience
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A lovely spring day has inspired us to boost our resilience.
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The pre-election period and our communications
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Emma Strain, City Hall’s Assistant Director of External Relations, discusses her role and pre-election period.
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Islington Faces: from Angel to Archway
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Guest blogger Nicola Baird began asking neighbours what they liked about Islington - now she has over 180 interviews.
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Calling young artists, Big Dance wants you!
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Budding artists aged 5-14 are invited to design a London travelcard holder.
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Helping London to reduce food waste
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Hanna Ashley, Project Support Officer, shares the projects successes so far in reducing food waste across the capital.
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Feast on Ireland's finest at Trafalgar Square Street Food Market
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London celebrates St Patrick’s Day on Sunday 13 March.
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Working together to improve London's air
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This is the first in a series of blogs that highlights work to improve air quality in London.
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Exercise Unified Response – a brief reflection
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This blog is focused on a brief reflection from this week's exercise. In summary, it was a fantastic opportunity.
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People’s Question Time Croydon Highlights
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If you didn’t get to People’s Question Time in Croydon on 3 March, you can now see the highlights video and more!
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Shhh, don't tell anyone, but East Ham is HAMAZING!
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Guest bloggers, East Blam, tell us why East Ham is one of London's best kept secrets.
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Step outside and Find Your London this spring
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Come and explore your city, join in fun outdoor activities and put a spring in your step with our new festival…
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What the circular economy means for London
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Doug Simpson from City Hall’s Environment team introduces the ‘circular economy’.
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Exercise Unified Response is here!
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We're all eagerly anticipating the start of #UnifiedResponse.
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Resilience: is it in your DNA?
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Could your DNA affect how prepared you are for an emergency? This week's blog has tips to stay safe and regular updates
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Don't miss my last People's Question Time
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Boris Johnson MP, Mayor of London, talks about his last People's Question Time as Mayor of London
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Exercise Unified Response - 14 days to go
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With London's largest ever emergency exercise approaching we bring you some behind the scenes information.
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London Prepared Update: strikes and the Zika virus
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London Prepared Update: this edition features information on transport (cancelled strikes) and the Zika virus.
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London’s stars share their favourite hidden gem, what’s yours?
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We’re working with the Evening Standard to find out what are Londoners favourite hidden gems across the city.
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Get £400 cash for your old boiler
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Ric Blakeway, Deputy Mayor for Housing, Land and Property, and Matthew Pencharz, Deputy Mayor for Environment and Energy
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Helping London’s pensioners get the credit they’ve earned
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Roger Evans, Deputy Mayor and Assembly Member talks about our campaign to raise awareness of Pension Credit…
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London Prepared Update
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We're sharing information about large events in central London in the coming days and keeping an eye on StormGertrude
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Putting users before politics - a sneak peek at our new website
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Designers 5K share their insights on redesigning the new website for Mayor of London and the London assembly.
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Show and tells for the new London.gov.uk website
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Imogen Levy, Digital Delivery Manager, explains what show and tells are and why they're important in web development.
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London Prepared Update
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With the weather turning colder we got tips on staying safe in winter as well as updates on Exercise Unified Response.
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The way you register to vote has changed
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Hello, I’m Jeff Jacobs, the Greater London Returning Officer. I’m in charge of running next year’s elections.
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HeadStart Interns share their experience at City Hall
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After four amazing weeks of hard work and dedication, our HeadStart interns are leaving this Friday.
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Nat Mady of Cordwainers Grow talks about Team London Skill-UP
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Nat Mady has attended Team London Skill-UP which matches skilled business volunteers and staff from small charities.
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Weekly update from London Prepared
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Read an account of the Voluntary Sector Day, plus updates on air quality, transport, security and counter terrorism.
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Being Agile: the what, why and how
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Imogen Levy, Delivery Manager explains what being Agile means, what it’s good for and how we at City Hall use it.