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LONDON Mayor Boris Johnson was told yesterday to come clean over reports he flew to San Francisco at taxpayers’ expense to lobby for funding for a bridge before procurement began.
Garden Bridge, a proposed pedestrian bridge over the River Thames, has been dogged by controversy since the project’s inception.
This week it was reported in the Architects’ Journal that Mr Johnson flew to the US to lobby global computer giant Apple for sponsorship alongside architect Thomas Heatherwick — then vying for the contract to design the bridge — in February 2013.
Once again, working people have been betrayed with false promises about jobs in an industry that is actually making climate change worse, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
LYNNE WALSH tells the story of the extraordinary race against time to ensure London’s memorial to the International Brigades got built – as activists gather next week to celebrate the monument’s 40th anniversary
