Around two-thirds of existing trains are now at the end of their 25 year design life and many are experiencing cracking on the chassis and other faults which are reducing the network’s performance levels.
Sadiq Khan to fund tablet lending pilot to boost digital skills and inclusion
The £50,000 scheme, which is expected to be up and running by June this year, will build on Mayor Sadiq Khan’s election pledge to reduce such digital exclusion.
Boris’s water cannon remain unsold three months after being put on the market
Bought in 2014 from the German federal police, the vehicles have never been used because Theresa May, who was Home Secretary at the time, declined to license them citing safety concerns.
Sadiq Khan says ‘My heart goes out to the de Menezes family’ but insists Cressida Dick is the right choice to protect London
Sadiq Khan today insisted that the Metropolitan Police have learnt “significant lessons” from the 2005 shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes and reiterated his belief that Cressida Dick, named this week as the force’s new Commissioner, was “the best candidate” for the job.
Council chiefs are nervous about plans to scrap Met borough commanders admits London’s Deputy Mayor
Currently each of the 32 boroughs policed by the Met has a dedicated commander who is responsible managing local budgets and officer deployments.
