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The Mayor of London Boris Johnson today launched a new flagship agency that will showcase London to the world as the best city to visit, invest and study in.

With the global spotlight shining on the capital ahead of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the new agency - London & Partners - will bring together the current work of the capital’s key promotional agencies – Visit London, Think London and Study London, which were previously responsible for attracting tourism, inward investment and international students.

The 2011 Balfour Beatty London Youth games second event concluded over the weekend with team Merton in action.

The latest round of games involved cricket with the boys and girls team taking part respectively. The girls who competed the weekend before were unable to win their group losing games against Bromley and City of Westminster but winning against Enfield. The boys who were in action last weekend came second defeating Waltham Forrest but losing out to eventual group winners Wandsworth. Currently Merton is 19th in the league table out of the 34 boroughs.

Merton Council has been shortlisted for a public/private partnership award by the government publication Local Government Chronicle (LGC).

The nomination recognises the council’s work with the Wimbledon Civic Theatre Trust (WCTT) and the New Wimbledon Theatre managed by the Ambassador Theatre Group (ATG) in ‘Raising Aspirations through the Arts’.

Merton Council is the first London borough to give the go-ahead for the installation of solar panels on three borough schools in order to collect the Feed-in-Tariff.
The council will be piloting the measures on the schools in Merton’s Wandle Valley Low Carbon Zone. It is one of ten such zones established by the Mayor of London to cut carbon by 20.12 per cent by 2012.
Once the panels are installed, the council is set to receive a guaranteed income for 25 years, making annual savings of £8,000 as well as cutting CO2 emissions by 5 tonnes a year from each installation.