Tag: 2017

Wimbledon WTA party 2017

London (by Kiran Rai)

The WTA Pre-Wimbledon Party is the most glamourous night in tennis, with the sport’s biggest stars dressing up to the nines to celebrate ahead of the year’s third Grand Slam event and Kiran Rai gets the inside story!

See more: All the latest from the WTA Pre-Wimbledon Party

This year saw some bold looks parade down the purple carpet, but which WTA star wore the best outfit? Check out this video of the 10 best dressed WTA stars and vote for your favorite look below Some of the biggest names in tennis will hit the purple carpet outside Kensington Roof Gardens for the glitzy bash.

For the first time, arrivals will be live streamed on the official Women’s Tennis Association Twitter account. Heather Watson, Johanna Konta and Laura Robson are among the sporting stars expected to attend.

Other stars expected to attend tonight’s event, which will be serving up a limited edition Häagen-Dazs strawberries and cream ice-cream, include Roxie Nafousi, Holly Branson and TOWIE’s Georgia Toffolo.

Sadiq Khan has stopped the purchase of new routemasters buses

London – by Rosita Pirulli

New ideas and decisions are opening 2017 in London: the mayor Sadiq Khan has scrapped the purchase of the new ‘Routemasters buses’ introduced by Boris Johnson in 2012. These buses were designed by Heatherwick Studio with the aim of reducing pollution: they are hybrid diesel-electric double-deckers.

Now the current Mayor has stopped their usage around the city and he is already receiving the corroboration by TFL (Transport For London). The former bus driver’s son aims to cut London’s costs.

In fact, Boris Johnson’ s project was criticised by most of the diplomats because of the huge amount of money needed to buy the buses: indeed, they request £50.000 more than the others, reaching a total of £350.000 each. Similarly, other critiques and fears came from the solutions, such as implied redundancies of bus drivers to save £10m for those vehicles.

By contrast, Sadiq Khan’s initiative does not seem to bring hard consequences, as he is already planning to invest on 3000 new buses with Euro IV standard emission by 2020, without facing any hostility. Furthermore, this route propels to plan other low cost civil programs with low environmental risks, such as £770m to enforce cyclist infrastructure or £885m to fight pollution. At the moment, these figures seem to be uphold by the majority.

So, cropped costs and environmental commitments are the protagonists of this year. Sadiq Khan is trying to make London easier to live, facing the needs and problems of most of the citizens, represented by English people as well as by immigrants.