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‘Polluting’ Silvertown tunnel is already out of date despite just opening, say campaigners

Victoria Rance says the ‘1970s technology’ will cause pollution that will damage health for decades, but London mayor and TfL claim it will reduce congestion

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New rail links needed if Heathrow Airport expands, London Assembly warned

Solutions include extending the Elizabeth line to Staines - dubbed an ‘absolute game-changer’ for access to the airport from Surrey and south-west London

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Sadiq Khan unveils £7m fund in bid to clean up London's rivers

Funding comes as the mayor hosts a roundtable summit with Thames Water and other agencies - but is criticised for failing to include the London Assembly

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Sadiq Khan accused of 'astounding complacency' in net zero mission

Deputy mayor dismisses concerns Sir Sadiq will ‘swan off into the sunset’ without getting London ‘anywhere near’ net zero carbon emissions

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Susan Hall says she wants to throw Sadiq Khan into a black hole, in row over London's finances

The row began after the mayor sought to blame Boris Johnson for the Met Police’s current funding gap

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Are there 'grooming gangs' in London? Sadiq Khan accused of stonewalling Tory questions

Susan Hall asks mayor nine times whether there are ‘rape gangs’ in the capital

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Residents 'left to rot' next to boarded-up houses as Clockwork Orange estate regeneration stalled

Around a quarter of residents are left living on the Lesnes Estate in Thamesmead

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London Assembly member Unmesh Desai still suspended from Labour following police investigation

The assembly member said he had ‘cooperated fully’ with police officers, who will not be taking ‘any further action’

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London Tories walk out of City Hall meeting in protest over 'left-wing wokery'

The protest came after the Green Party’s Zack Polanski refused to agree to host an all-male panel discussion

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Police urged to review abuse and intimidation faced by London mayoral and assembly candidates

Elections review says young Londoners ‘should be able to use Oyster Zip card as ID at polling stations’

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Concerns raised over impact of Chinese 'super-embassy' on London's 'very stretched' police

Labour and Tory members of the London Assembly were united on Wednesday in their opposition to the proposed embassy in Tower Hamlets

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Sadiq Khan urged to scrap Silvertown and Blackwall Tunnel tolls as 37,000 sign petition

With more than 37,000 signatures, the petition is said to be the largest ever formally received by the London Assembly

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London shops lose record £15m of items due to shoplifting epidemic

National shoplifting figures show shoplifting has risen 30 per cent since the pandemic and the ensuing cost-of-living crisis

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Sadiq Khan ignores deadline to questions over Taylor Swift's VVIP security

The mayor was asked to respond to queries about the megastar’s police protection by November 6 - but has still not replied, and has not said why

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Housebuilding in London 'as bad as during 2008 global banking crisis', says Sadiq Khan

Inability of Londoners to get on housing ladder isn’t because they spend too much on ‘flat whites or Netflix’, says mayor

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London Assembly urges Sadiq Khan to help asylum seekers with transport costs

Reform UK’s Alex Wilson said ‘British taxpayers will reach a limit when they feel they are being taken advantage of’

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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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Sadiq Khan's new policing deputy apologises for calling Susan Hall a 'racist' and 'climate change-denier'

Ms Hall, who in 2019 retweeted a post calling Mr Khan the ‘nipple height mayor of Londonistan’, said it was ‘abhorrent’ to have been called racist

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'Green hypocrisy!' Sadiq Khan in row over Heathrow Airport expansion

Mr Khan was accused of failing to show ‘climate leadership’, while the Labour mayor said the Green Party was guilty of hypocrisy over renewable energy

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TfL has 'no proposals' to widen Clapham Tube platforms despite safety concerns

The platforms are just 3.7 metres wide - but TfL has concluded that widening them would consume too much time and money

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Tory leadership race: James Cleverly can 'speak to all Londoners,' says ex-London minister Paul Scully

Lewisham-born Cleverly was a member of the Greater London Assembly

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Senior Met officer slams 'two tier policing' claim as 'soundbite' designed to 'undermine' police

Former Tory mayoral candidate Susan Hall said she understood why ‘many’ think the Met is biased

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Black performance artists face discrimination in nightlife licensing, City Hall told

Councils and police officers are following a ‘racist narrative’ in their licensing decisions, Black Lives in Music told the London Assembly

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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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