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Boris Johnson has dropped a legal challenge by his predecessor Ken Livingstone against a treatment plant in east London which would turn salt water into drinking water.

The former mayor launched the High Court challenge last year against the £200m desalination plant at Beckton which aims to ease water shortages in the South East.

Mr Livingstone had claimed cleaner, cheaper and less wasteful alternatives should be found to the "energy-guzzling and carbon-intensive" plant.

However, the capital's new leader said he had agreed to withdraw Livingstone's legal challenge to Thames Water's plans for the desalination plant in return for a series of environmental measures from the company.

Mr Johnson also confirmed he is to scrap the Londoner newspaper which, he claimed, would save the capital around £3m a year.

A percentage of this saving - around £1m per year - will be spent on planting an extra 10,000 new street trees around the capital by 2012.

"There was little commitment of resources from Ken Livingstone to reverse the trend of decline in the number of street trees. I am taking immediate action to reverse this short-sighted decision," said Johnson.

"Trees improve the street environment in which Londoners live and work so I will do all I can to save the trees we have and campaign for more trees to protect London's open spaces."

3:32pm Tuesday 13th May 2008

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