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A NEW REPORT from the London Assembly Transport Committee has suggested radical new measures be taken to curb traffic in London. The report’s been welcomed by London’s Deputy Mayor for Transport, Val Shawcross. She wants to see City Hall being “smarter ...

LABOUR MAYOR of Tower Hamlets John Biggs was left red-faced after his Administration put out a press release referring to his predecessor as “Luther Rahman”. “Lutfur Rahman” is probably one of the best known names in Tower Hamlets. The Borough’s ...

LABOUR’S FORMER Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, may have to defend himself before a Court in connection with his role in “rendition”. This is the practice undertaken by the USA during the “war on terror” which saw them in effect kidnapping ...

POLICE ARE appealing for witnesses after a 24 year old woman was raped in Victoria Park in the early hours of Friday, 13th January. The woman had spent the evening with friends and was walking through the Park near Grove Road ...

THE FINAL TWO men of a group of five charged with supporting terrorism have now been convicted. The other three members of the group had been convicted last August, but the final two had to go through a retrial after the ...

LABOUR LEADER JEREMY CORBYN has put forward his strongest criticism of the Government’s approach to Brexit yet – warning that Chancellor Philip Hammond could be leading the UK into a trade war. The UK referendum on whether to leave the ...

THE NHS is still in crisis and Theresa May is still in denial. NHS professionals have been speaking out with one voice, clamouring for extra money, and opposition parties have piled on the pressure in the House of Commons in ...

ARE YOU LOOKING after your amygdala? No, we didn’t know we had one either. The amygdala is a small group of cells deep inside the medial temporal lobe (roughly, on the side of your head above the ear). The cells ...

LEN McCLUSKEY, General Secretary of the Unite trade union, has given his full support to a government campaign to raise awareness of the minimum wage – but he has warned that sanctions on employers who are found out breaking the ...

GERMANY HAS just announced that Angela Merkel’s “open door” policy for refugees has been overturned in practice as well as forgotten in principle: only 280,000 people sought asylum in 2016 – down by 600,000 on 2015. Merkel’s original response to ...