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Revealed: How overthrown Venezuelan president Maduro helped strike deal that gave Londoners cheap bus fares

20 years on, Ken Livingstone’s cheap oil deal with Venezuela remains one of the most extraordinary - and controversial - initiatives by a London mayor

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TfL chief apologises for suggesting that vigilante graffiti cleaners were tagging Tube trains

Activists hail a ‘Christmas miracle’ as Andy Lord admits no evidence has been found to support accusation

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How slow is your London bus? Declining bus speeds mapped as citywide average falls below 9mph

Bus operators blame roadworks, cycle lanes, 20mph speed limits and LTNs as passenger numbers continue to plummet

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Met Police chief Sir Mark Rowley at war with his own federation boss over Freemason questions

Sir Mark Rowley claims Matt Cane ‘launched a tirade’ against his anti-corruption measures

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Londoners forced to move out of capital to have children, experts warn - as scale of families exodus revealed

Experts have told the London Assembly that the capital risks becoming a child-free city

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Revealed: Sadiq Khan now earns more than Keir Starmer as London mayor's pay rises to £170,000

£5k pay rise believed to make Sir Sadiq the best-paid politician in the UK - as number of City Hall staff soars to record levels

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London tourist tax hotel levy could generate £250m a year for Sadiq Khan, says City Hall review

Call for capital to follow Manchester, Liverpool, Edinburgh, Paris and New York and add top-up charge to cost of overnight stays

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Zack Polanski elected as new leader of Green Party

A joint ticket of two of the Greens’ MPs, Ellie Chowns and Adrian Ramsay, lost out to Mr Polanski, who is a member of the London Assembly.

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Radical plan proposed to cut London road deaths by reducing number of lanes on main roads

3,802 people were killed or seriously injured in road collisions in 2024/25

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TfL threatened with legal action over minicab drivers licensing backlog

GMB union follows IWGB in seeking compensation for drivers unable to work

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London bus drivers can refuse to get behind wheel if it's too hot, says TfL chief

Video clip of Andy Lord’s advice goes viral - but some drivers say they face suspension if they complain about temperatures of up to 40C

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Oxford Street pedestrianisation should include 'world class public toilets', mayor Sadiq Khan is told

Mayor urged to turn nation’s most famous high street into a ‘healthy street’ that is safe and accessible to all Londoners

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Sadiq Khan flies into row over 12,000-mile round trip to Brazil to warn of dangers of climate change

London mayor has made more than 20 foreign trips in nine years at City Hall

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Sir Sadiq Khan urged to seek higher taxes and parking fees for SUVs

London Assembly Members agreed a motion calling on the mayor to take action because of fears about the increasing size of cars.

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London school closures: Prominent Labour MP says cost of living crisis means families can't afford capital

Family seeking housing in Camden offered a place in Manchester - while Enfield council considers buying homes in Liverpool

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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

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Notting Hill Carnival at risk of ‘mass casualty event’ due to crowd control problems

Police warn in new report for London Assembly over ‘dangerous level of crowd density’ at event

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London road crime: specialist Met police unit only investigates one in 10 serious injury crashes

Concern that many victims are treated as lower priority and struggle to secure compensation

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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 accused of 'backtracking' on promise to ban gambling adverts from the Tube

Mayor says he wants to ‘hear more detail about the Government’s plans in this area’, despite promising to take action himself four years ago

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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 says he wants to take control of Oxford Street because council has 'failed' the area

Mayor wants to part-pedestrianise the ‘tired’ street and doesn’t want Labour-run authority to be ‘obstacle to progress’

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Levy on London stadium concerts could support grassroots music venues

In a report on the capital’s nightlife, the London Assembly has also told Sir Sadiq Khan to explore expanding the Night Tube

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Silvertown tunnel: TfL spends £2m on bike bus that cyclists 'don't want to use'

Concerns emerge about ‘hostile’ location of bus stop and whether cargo bikes will be banned from shuttle bus

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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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