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Boris Johnson is set for a grilling from the London Assembly over the impact the Olympic Park land debt will have on London-wide regeneration.

The Mayor's regeneration plans will need to be re-examined with the £349million debt incurred by the London Development Agency due to be transferred to the Greater London Authority on April 1.

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Boris Johnson's revised fare increases on public transport have been described as "scandalous".

The Mayor of London unveiled the revised cost of using public transport in the capital today, following the Government's injection of £136million towards reducing the above inflation increases.

The devil will be in the detail when the future of the Olympic Stadium is finally decided.

That was the message from the Olympic Park Legacy Company's chief executive Andrew Altman and chairman Baroness Ford when questioned by the London Assembly this morning.

London Assembly member John Biggs has asked Mayor of London Boris Johnson for further details about Emirates Airlines sponsorship of the Thames cable car.

Mr Johnson unveiled Emirates as the scheme's sponsor last Friday, with the airline paying £36million over 10 years for branding rights.

Mayor of London Boris Johnson defended the Met Police officer criticised for not ordering an investigation into the News of the World phone hacking in 2009.

Asst Commissioner John Yates was labelled a "lame duck" by London Assembly member Brian Coleman during Mayor's Question Time this morning, but Mr Johnson defended him.

Boris Johnson has admitted public funds could be used on the planned cable car linking the Excel to The O2.

The London Mayor has always said the river crossing would be paid for by private finance. However, this week he backtracked and said he could not 'guarantee' it would be fully paid for by the private sector.

Police should be equipped with devices such as Blackberrys to increase visibility while also cutting costs, according to a London Assembly report.

Use of personal digital assistants were just one of the recommendations from the Assembly's Budget and Performance Committee report into the future of police in the capital.

Mayor of London Boris Johnson was on elusive form this morning when he was quizzed by the London Assembly about two major transport projects affecting east London.

Mr Johnson, facing his monthly Mayor's Question Time, admitted increased services on the Jubilee line are now likely to be running in the autumn rather than July, while the Thames cable car will open "when it's good and ready".

Campaigners took their fight to save King Edward VII Memorial Park to City Hall last week in a bid to stop Thames Water threatening the future of the area's only green space. London Assembly member John Biggs, Limehouse and Poplar MP Jim Fitzpatrick and comedian and Limehouse resident Lee Hurst joined protesters to hand in 4,000 signatures to Mayor Boris Johnson against proposals for the Thames Tideway Tunnel that they fear will ruin their park.

The legacy use of the Olympic Broadcast and Media Centres are causing the most concern for the team charged with making a commercial success of the venues after the 2012 Games.

Baroness Ford and Andrew Altman, chair and chief executive of the Olympic Park Legacy Company, made the admission when they were questioned by the London Assembly this morning.

"Are you not at risk of creating middle class ghettos - a situation where poor people can't get in?"

Olympic Park legacy chiefs faced questions from the London Assembly this week, about the new vision for the Olympic site beyond the 2012 Games and how those plans will become a reality.

An Olympic debt of nearly £400million could hold back east London's economic development, a London Assembly committee has warned.

The committee, which scrutinises financial aspects of the Games, revealed it has grave concerns over the abolition of the London Development Agency and what happens to the money that body owes to Government.

Disappointing setbacks could curb aspirations to stage the greenest ever Olympics.

London 2012 is unlikely to meet its target to obtain 20 per cent of its electricity from new local renewable energy sources during Games-time, the London Assembly was told last week.

By John Biggs

So the cuts are coming.

Having previously agreed across the political spectrum that we needed to be careful not to put the brakes on too quickly, to avoid an economic crash, the new Government has changed the tune and announced big and rapid savings.

An investigation into expansion plans at City Airport has been launched by the London Assembly's environment committee.

The study is expected to see staff from the Docklands airport and Newham Council asked to appear at City Hall.

East London is in grave danger of missing out on a lasting legacy from the Olympics, according to a London Assembly report.

A study by the economic development, culture, sport and tourism committee into the 2012 Games says there needs to be more ambitious targets for employment and thousands of new homes made available to local people.

The over-run of the Jubilee line upgrade is likely to cost Tube Lines around £50million.

That's how much the Canary Wharf-based engineering consortium will lose for its failure to complete the installation of new signalling on the line by the end of last year, according to chief executive Dean Finch.

The Wharf was at City Hall as Crossrail bosses briefed the London Assembly

Your average Londoner can bang on about transport for hours, sometimes even with good reason.

When 10am rolled around at City Hall, snow jitters had stripped the London Assembly's transport committee down to a skeleton crew.

West India Dock will be partially drained in the next few weeks as Crossrail construction continues in Canary Wharf.

Piling has now been completed at the site known as Adams Place, and Crossrail has claimed work is "proceeding to schedule" as the £16billion project enters 2010.