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Investment outside London could bring £100bn boost to economy, says Bank of England’s former chief economist
Andy Haldane, the former chief economist at the Bank of England, has jumped into the controversy over the future of the HS2 high-speed rail link.
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London police officers hand back weapons after colleague charged with murder
Soldiers could fill in for armed police after dozens of Metropolitan Police officers stood down from firearms duties following a murder charge against one of their colleagues. Scotland Yard has requested military support for counter-terrorism duties if armed officers are unavailable. The Home Secretary has ordered a review of the situation.
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Sadiq Khan defends expansion of Ulez in Greater London
London Mayor Sadiq Khan is in New York where world leaders are gathering for the United Nations General Assembly which starts tomorrow.
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Concrete RAAC crisis: Inside London school trying to keep students safe
Officials at the Department for Education have said that more than 600 schools in England have now been surveyed for collapse-risk concrete.
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Escaped terror suspect Daniel Khalife arrested in west London after four day manhunt
Escaped terror suspect Daniel Khalife has been captured after police narrowed their search to west London.
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Concrete crisis: London’s Heathrow and Gatwick airports found to use crumbling Raac concrete
London’s busiest airports – Heathrow and Gatwick – are the latest buildings to discover the presence of Raac concrete, which has caused so much chaos to dozens of schools. Safety precautions have already been put in place – and neither airport has reported any risk to the travelling public.
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What are the health benefits of expanding ULEZ to outer London?
There’s also been an almighty row recently over the expansion of ULEZ – Ultra Low Emissions Zone to cover the whole of London. What are the health benefits?
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Hunt continues for terror suspect Daniel Khalife who escaped London jail
Scotland Yard’s counter terrorism commander says there have been no confirmed sightings so far of Daniel Khalifuh since he escaped from prison at 7.32 yesterday morning.
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FactCheck: will ULEZ expansion to outer London improve air quality?
We calculate the expansion will add 13 minutes to the average Londoner’s life expectancy in 2023.
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Ulez expansion will tackle premature deaths in London, says Sadiq Khan
We spoke to London mayor Sadiq Khan.
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ULEZ expanded to whole of Greater London
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.…
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London’s ULEZ expansion to become world’s biggest anti-pollution charging zone
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.
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‘Shameful’ to see modern slavery perpetrated in London’s most affluent areas, says former anti-slavery commissioner
Dame Sarah Thornton was the UK’s Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner from 2019 until last year.
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The domestic slaves rescued from London’s richest streets
In the last five years, hundreds of women have been saved from domestic slavery and violent abuse in the UK. More than 220 of those rescues were carried out by a small, fearless band of volunteers.
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Sadiq Khan widens Ulez scrappage scheme to all Londoners
The extension of the ultra low emission zone in London has become something of a thorny issue for Labour following last month’s by-elections.
