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A bit of an old one here but you can read about the travels, or is it travails, of Boris Johnson here on Dave Hill’s blog.

Andrew Gilligan leaves London Evening Standard, joins Daily Telegraph.

And his dream came true (And his dream came true)
Quite unexpectedly
So Gilly Gilly, out of favour, packs it in, joins Boris at The T

Apologies to Max Bygraves fans (if anyone remembers the song).

Update : Adam from Torytroll has found the song on YouTube.

I suppose it will depend on whether the Telegraph’s star, quarter million pound a year columnist behaved himself when he was an MP.
We’ll have to wait and see.

for the way the newspaper has been run in the past by its now 25% stakeholder, the Daily Mail Group.
The Standard launches its apologetic advertising campaign on posters and buses in London.
Will any of the ‘Sorry for being negative’ executions appear on a bendy bus?

creative commons – some rights reserved. Original by Sarah G… – (flickr)
I also updated an image on the same subject over at Tory Troll’s site here.

Guest contributor – London Assembly Member Brian Coleman

Three cheers for London’s firefighters!
Sitting in my lounge at about 10pm a terrible noise started. Difficult to describe – a bit like a pneumatic drill/rockslide, but worse.
I went to open the front door to see where the noise was coming from and, as the noise got louder, I thought to myself it was in the street somewhere.

I went back to the lounge and tried in vain to ignore the dreadful din by sticking my fingers in my ears and singing ‘la la la’, just as Boris had done the other day when he ran away from that reporter chap.
I shuffled to the door of my office and, despite the noise of my thighs rubbing together, I could clearly hear the din grow louder.

I entered the office and the filing cabinet was making a terrible noise but there was even more noise from above in the storage space where I keep all my GLA paperwork.
The house seemed at that point to be vibrating, so I grabbed the dog and got out the house as it felt as if something was about to blow.

I called 999 and the Fire Brigade (I have contacts), put the dog in the street to play with the traffic then re-inserted my fingers into my ears.
I’d forgotten the lyrics to the ‘ignore-a-reporter’ song, so was unable to distract myself sufficiently from the clattering noise inside.

I waited. Within a couple of hours the firefighters arrived, having been delayed by a collision between a bendy-bus and twenty-five cyclists. All dead – that’s 2,000 this year according to Boris.

On realising they were face-to-face with the Chair of the London Fire Authority, the lads all tipped their helmets to me, then fearlessly rushed into the house.

Had I done the right thing in calling them? Indeed I had.
As the noise subsided, the senior officer emerged badly bruised and shaken to advise me that there had been a serious structural failure in my office which had raised an already severe fire risk to a critical level.
The firefighters took immediate action and doused down my office, concerned that several thousands of pounds worth of taxi receipts, which had literally exploded from their storage space, might burst into flames at any moment.
Anyway, while the tumble-dryer finishes off the last two grand of receipts, I just thought I’d pen a public thank-you to the brigade.
It was a very frightening financial situation and they were there when I needed them.
Literally – my heroes!

If you haven’t a clue what I’m on about, click here.

or on your face as usual…

David Ross resigns. Another aide gone. Pretty soon Boris will be signing a deal with a frying pan manufacturer.

Talks to Damien Green after he was bailed as a potential criminal suspect and is accused of pre-judging the Damian Green leak inquiry.

More at Tory Troll.
What if one of the candidates for the position of new Met commissioner becomes difficult over the next few weeks Boris?

“I’m gonna refuse him an offer he wants me to make.”

Arrest not good, overreaction, heavy handed and many answers sought.

Comments and posts about it hilarious/pathetic take your pick…