While it’s illegal to drive a vehicle powered by the cheaper fuel on the public highways, some supermarkets and other fleet operators use it to run unregulated secondary engines which power their refrigeration units.
Sadiq Khan welcomes Government’s Met Police funding u-turn
On Tuesday it emerged that the Home Office is preparing to abandon the new round of funding cuts, although no official statement has yet been made.
A third of Met cops to carry Tasers as Commissioner vows to protect Londoners from “violent incidents”
An additional 1,800 Metropolitan Police officers are to be issued with Tasers, taking the total number of officers carrying the weapon to 6,400.
City Hall Greens claim Sadiq Khan’s air quality policies are too focussed on central London
Since coming to office last May, Mr Khan has announced a raft of measures aimed at reducing airborne pollution, including measures to clean-up London’s bus fleet, mandating the adoption of ‘zero emission’ Taxis and confirming plans to introduce the Ultra Low Emission Zone proposed by his predecessor.
Transport for London analysis identifies 25 potential cycling ‘corridors’
Twenty five routes, spreading Brentford to Heathrow in the west, to Dagenham Dock to Ilford in the east, Highgate to North Finchley in the north, and Streatham to Oval in the south, have been published today and Will Norman, London’s Walking and Cycling Commissioner.
