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City of London police are to trial a new technology that allows officers to receive CCTV film in real time – an innovation used ahead of French police storming the besieged kosher store in Paris.
Thousands of passengers had their flights and trains cancelled today – after a 500kg world war two bomb was found in the river Thames. London City airport was forced to close and families living within an exclusion zone have been evacuated from their homes as experts from the Royal Navy and police try to remove…
A new charge on some of the most polluting vehicles has come into effect in central London. It’s called the T-Charge, or “toxicity charge”, and affects most diesel and petrol cars registered before 2006. Drivers of these cars will now face an additional £10 charge when entering the central London congestion zone, but some motoring groups have said it…
Security concerns are inevitable after the bombings in Boston – but gritty amateurs and elite athletes alike aren’t letting it put them off ahead of Sunday’s event in London.
There were various disgraces in the way the banks treated consumer and businesses with contempt over purchase insurance and interest rate swaps. But the Libor scandal seemed to be a quite incredible.
As Britain gets ready for next month’s Olympics, a new survey finds London is the most expensive city in the world for an evening out.
A row between the British Olympic Association and the Games organising committee threatened to blight UK preparations for the London 2012 Olympic Games.
We spoke to the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, who was taking part in an anti racism workshop organised by Chelsea football club.
Labour’s Sadiq Khan has also won an historic third term as London mayor. And despite a Conservative campaign attacking his expansion of London’s ultra-low emission zone – many areas saw a swing to Labour.
Thousands of people have joined a march against anti-Semitism in London.
We calculate the expansion will add 13 minutes to the average Londoner’s life expectancy in 2023.
Another controversial anti pollution strategy – London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone – has just been expanded to the whole of Greater London – meaning drivers whose vehicles don’t meet minimum emission standards will have to pay a daily £12.50 fee. The city’s mayor Sadiq Khan said it would help five million people breathe cleaner air.…
Now the London mayor Sadiq Khan has accused the Government of “weaponising” air pollution – days before his plan to expand the city’s Ultra Low Emission Zone comes into effect.
The majority of the Probation Service is currently working at excessive capacity, leaked internal figures obtained by Channel 4 News reveal, raising further fears that the service is struggling to cope.
We speak to London’s Mayor – Sadiq Khan – as the city faces blazes across the capital.