BBC4 controller Janice Hadlow has revealed she is in discussions with corporation's director general, Mark Thompson, about extending the number of hours her channel is on air.
That means extending the number of electric car charging points across the city and setting out a plan tomake London's buses green.
Gradually extending the number of free child care hours that two, three and four-year-olds are entitled to is welcome but insufficient.
The shake-up included extending the number of years of work required to qualify for a full pension to 41.5 years in 2020 from 41 years in 2012.
Professor Lawlor, from the University of Bristol, said: "These findings support the efficacy of extending the number of IVF cycles beyond three or four.
Extending the number of hours and days students must spend in school, to break with academic calendars formed in an agrarian age.
"Civilization," wrote the philosopher and mathematician Alfred North Whitehead in 1911, "advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them".
The warming of the Arctic is extending the number of ice-free days in Hudson Bay, forcing the bears off the sea ice, and away from their main diet of ring seals, and on to the land.
Whitehead, it seems, was either wrong or extremely selective: on many important issues, civilization only destroys itself by extending the number of important operations that we can perform without thinking about them.
I was just on the west coast and turned on the local news in time to hear a reporter say that all the problems in public education in his area were about to be solved - hurray - by considerably extending the number of classroom observations of all teachers.
Nicholas Stretch, of law firm CMS Cameron McKenna, said: "Because London has a very large number of people with variable high pay, the forthcoming bonus capping rules – and extending the number of people caught by the rules – will have a particular impact on our financial services industry and lead to extensive changes in how remuneration is provided".
