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Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez has died aged 58 after battling cancer for almost two years.
Boris Johnson has promised to “keep police numbers high” in the capital. But FactCheck discovers that officer strength is really at a five-year low.
Bradley Wiggins is knighted in the Queen’s new year’s honours list, leading a host of Olympic and Paralympic athletes who made their names at London 2012.
We take a look back at the lowlights of 2012 with damned lies and statistics coming thick and fast from across the political spectrum.
Elections over the past 40 years have seen the growing willingness of voters to desert Conservative, Labour and Lib Dem – a trend which continued in yesterday’s polls.
We note that Boris only referred to private companies in his speech, not local authorities. That may be because all the London councils that have achieved accreditation or have applied for it are run by Labour.
As he showed during his speech to the Conservative Party conference, London mayor Boris Johnson laps up the limelight – but what are his real politics?
Few politicians are confident enough to compare their cabinet colleagues to cleaning utensils – but Boris Johnson is one of them. The London mayor delivers a heartfelt speech to Tories in Birmingham.
“So Boris has failed to honour one of his manifesto promises, and he’s missed by more than 700 bobbies, according to these statistics.”
Jon Snow
If our urban centres are to be saved we need to follow where the Olympic lanes lead.
David Cameron says he is “delighted” by Boris Johnsons victory in the vote for London mayor – but the result has triggered calls within the Conservative Party for the prime minister to change course.
Iain Duncan Smith may have said he wants to make work pay, but the department for work and pensions has been written to by its own cleaners who say they aren’t paid enough to live on. FactCheck looks at their demands for a “living wage”.
Follow David Cameron’s statement to the House of Commons on Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt’s handling of the failed BSkyB bid with Channel 4 News’s live blog. You can watch the Prime Minister’s statement or read updates here.
“This is what the government means when it talks about ‘increased staffing levels’ – that the cut is not quite as deep as first envisaged.”
Transport for London tells Channel 4 News it banned an advert which suggests gay people can be converted to heterosexuality because it was “offensive”.