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Sadiq Khan’s policing deputy knew half of police front desks closing in London but ‘didn’t say anything’

One angry member at City Hall asked Kaya Comer-Schwartz what the point is of her £151,465-a year role

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Concerns raised over London Fire Brigade's efforts to stamp out misconduct

‘Delays in resolving complaints have had a real impact on the wellbeing of staff,’ London Assembly warns

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Concern over 'low take-up' of Silvertown and Blackwall Tunnel toll discounts

Sadiq Khan urged by Liberal Democrats to do more to ‘ensure local people are fully aware of the discounts available to them’

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Revealed: Moving pedestrian crossing 50 yards down Streatham High Road cost almost £1m

Liberal Democrats say the safety scheme’s ‘eye-watering’ cost suggests ‘something has surely gone wrong’

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Row as TfL 'plans to spend £650,000 moving pedestrian crossing 50 yards' on Streatham High Road

Changes designed to improve road safety after 21 collisions in three years

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Sadiq Khan asked to boost support for London's Migration Museum which has been in shopping centre for four years

The Migration Museum is trying to raise £20m as it prepares to move from Lewisham to its new permanent home in central London

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London Assembly demands 'proper funding' to fix cladding crisis with nearly 2,000 buildings at risk

Only 27 per cent of the high and medium-rise buildings in London found to have dangerous cladding have been remediated

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Muslims in London 'extremely worried' as further mosque protection urged after far right protests

Spread of hate crimes by far right has left many Muslims ‘shaken’, London Assembly member warns

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Lightweight PPE for London firefighters in short supply amid 'ever-greater likelihood' of wildfires

London Assembly says ‘very concerning’ PPE still not available two years after LFB’s busiest summer since WWII

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Northern line misery: Kentish Town Tube station to remain shut until end of 2024, admits TfL

Work to replace obsolete escalators runs six months behind schedule after corroded steel beams had to be replaced

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Sadiq Khan: Government must scrap two child benefit cap 'as soon as it can'

The mayor said he ‘fully supports’ the Government’s Child Poverty Taskforce

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Concerns over 'abysmal' tram performance as Sadiq Khan admits service 'not good enough'

Calls for senior officers overseeing the trams not to receive ‘performance-related’ bonuses this year

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Susan Hall criticises fire brigade for 'ridiculous' delays to Jaden Francois-Esprit suicide investigation

Ms Hall said that delays to the Brigade’s independent investigation into the firefighter’s death were ‘not fair to anybody’

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East London residents near toxic landfill site could face 'months of fires'

Residents have complained the site has caused nosebleeds, breathing problems, and coughing fits, a London Assembly member has said.

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Progress on misogyny in London Fire Brigade but ‘significant work to do’, City Hall told

The Brigade's deputy commissioner said staff were now more confident in lodging complaints about misconduct

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Thames Water boss: I would ‘take a dip’ in ‘fully treated’ sewage water

The question was asked in relation to Thames Water’s abstraction plans at Teddington Weir

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Thames Water apology as west London residents left without water for second day

Airblocks in water pipes are likely to be causing supply issues, Thames Water said

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With rents at record high, and a chronic shelter shortage, why are so many London homes left empty?

Who owns the capital’s tens of thousands of uninhabited properties? And amid an affordable housing crisis, how can we get them back in to use?

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Sadiq Khan urged to help reduce job barriers for London’s marginalised communities

The Mayor has been urged to take action to help asylum seekers, refugees and those who have had contact with the criminal justice system into the capital’s labour market

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Mayor and Government urged to take action on food poverty in London

Both the Mayor and the Government have been urged by the London Assembly to take further action to address food poverty in the capital

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Sadiq Khan urged to boost ‘life-changing’ adult education opportunities

The London Assembly’s economy committee warned that adult education was “not reaching the number of Londoners that it could do”

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‘A win-win for businesses’: London politicians urge action to boost cargo bike use

Transport for London believe the vehicles could replace up to 17 per cent of van-driven kilometres in central London by the end of the decade

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Heathrow: Third runway ‘paused’ but could still go ahead after internal review, officials say

Tony Devenish, Conservative Assembly Member (AM) for West Central London, accused Heathrow of being “consistently opaque” about its expansion plans

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London firefighters called out to over 130 e-bike and e-scooter battery blazes in just over a year

Firefighters have been called to more than 130 fires involving the type of batteries used in e-bikes and e-scooters in London in little over a year, it can be revealed.

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