Trafalgar Square to host first basketball competition with NBA event A school’s basketball tournament will come to Trafalgar Square on June 6 Evening Standard · May 5, 2025
A London 2040 Olympics is alluring but do gold medals bring cities a golden future? New research has shown there was a positive impact during London 2012 but the legacy effects appear to be short-lived The Guardian - UK · May 5, 2025
OPINION - Susan Hall is back — and Sadiq Khan and Labour should be very worried She was once dubbed “the one Sadiq Khan fears”. The phrase was splashed on billboards, blared from vans and echoed across social media. For a while, Susan Hall was everywhere. But it was more than just a line, it was a warning. A warning to a Mayor who had coasted… Evening Standard · May 4, 2025
Bereaved families urge Sadiq Khan to honour pledge to ban gambling ads on Tube Families who have lost relatives to gambling-related suicide beg mayor to act on his 2021 pledge to ban betting and casino ads on London transport Evening Standard · May 3, 2025
Crime's up in London - but the capital's still safer than Manchester, according to latest police data Manchester worse for total crime rate, violence, stalking and sexual offences Evening Standard · May 3, 2025
Ikea’s new central London store has learned from ‘a lot of mistakes’ over 7 years “We have [made] a lot of mistakes when designing city location stores,” Ikea’s Tolga Öncü told Fortune. Fortune · May 1, 2025
TfL’s war on fare dodgers stepped up amid concern of surge in ‘gate-pushers’ Efforts to target bus network hampered by lack of Met police support Evening Standard · Apr 30, 2025
First look inside Oxford Street's long awaited flagship Ikea store after £450m investment Around 60,000 shoppers a week are expected to visit the shop in the former Topshop flagship Evening Standard · Apr 29, 2025
UK Ikea boss backs calls to pedestrianise Oxford Street as flagship store opens New outlet due to welcome shoppers on Thursday regarded as key to helping revive famous London thoroughfare The Guardian - UK · Apr 29, 2025
Report warns London is 'a long way off' eliminating new HIV cases by 2030 Research finds that the decline in new diagnoses in London ‘appears to have stalled’, raising questions about mayor Sadiq Khan’s end-of-decade target Evening Standard · Apr 29, 2025
Susan Hall reclaims Tory leadership at City Hall and pledges to renew battle with Sadiq Khan Surprise as defeated mayoral candidate returns as Tory group leader on the London Assembly Evening Standard · Apr 29, 2025
Book exchange libraries to be reinstated at some Tube stations after mayor orders review of his own fire rules 15 stations will see ‘community libraries’ return after TfL finds solution Evening Standard · Apr 29, 2025
OPINION - Get real TfL, it'll take more than posters to silence the headphone dodgers Putting up a few paper posters isn’t going to help one jot Evening Standard · Apr 29, 2025
Chelsea urged to start stadium talks as Twickenham issues revealed amid Stamford Bridge dilemma Temporary move to Twickenham unlikely to receive support from local council Evening Standard · Apr 29, 2025
Evening Standard · Apr 29, 2025 Sadiq Khan backs London bid for 2040 Olympic Games as mayor points to 'humongous' benefits Report also estimates that hosting World Athletics Championship in 2029 could be worth £400million
Evening Standard · Apr 28, 2025 Call for action to prevent 'endemic' misogyny affecting young Londoners London Assembly warns ‘much more’ needs to be done to stop violence against women and girls ‘spiralling out of control’
Evening Standard · Apr 28, 2025 Tube station serving west London luxury shops becomes step-free - five years behind schedule Knightsbridge becomes 93rd out of 272 on Underground to become accessible
The Guardian - UK · Apr 26, 2025 London councils yet to spend £130m in local climate funds Local authorities have spent less than £40m out of £170m collected since offsetting scheme began in 2016
Evening Standard · Apr 25, 2025 TfL pledges 'better support' for asylum seekers applying for travel discounts Commitment comes as Sadiq Khan’s transport deputy says the mayor is determined ‘to help vulnerable Londoners travel across our city’
Evening Standard · Apr 25, 2025 Concerns over regeneration causing 'irreversible damage' to London's markets and railway arches London Assembly warns mayor Sadiq Khan to ‘ensure regeneration enhances, rather than erodes, the social fabric of our city’
Evening Standard · Apr 25, 2025 Sadiq Khan boosts funding to combat hate crimes and radicalisation Mayor admits hate crimes in the capital remain ‘far too high’, while stressing the need to help Londoners ‘think critically’ in face of online extremism
Evening Standard · Apr 24, 2025 How London's shoplifting epidemic has accelerated with offences soaring 54% in a year Data also reveals that ‘theft from the person’ offences rose 41 per cent in the capital, despite falling 14 per cent across the rest of England
Evening Standard · Apr 23, 2025 Sadiq Khan urged to boost high streets with public art and new community projects Too many Londoners do not feel ‘meaningfully involved’ in high street regeneration schemes, London Assembly warns
Evening Standard · Apr 23, 2025 'Senseless vanity project': Sadiq Khan faces backlash over Oxford Street pedestrianisation plans Residents’ groups tell London Assembly investigation that need for change has been overstated by Mayor of London
Evening Standard · Apr 17, 2025 Shoreditch towers plan secures 'support in principle' from City Hall Development would reach 12 storeys high on a disused patch of land between two busy railway lines