Opposition parties on the London Assembly have called on Boris Johnson to “repair public trust in his statistics” after the Mayor was reprimanded for his use of transport crime statistics in a way which was “damaging to public trust”. Sir Michael Scholar, Chair of the UK Statistics Authority, has written to the Mayor to express […]

HMS Belfast’s Operations Room, the nerve centre of the ship when she was in active service, re-opens this Easter following a restoration which has seen interactive features added, allowing visitors to see what it would have been like to participate in a real-life naval operation. The ship, one of London’s top tourist attractions and managed […]

The European Commission has granted a “temporary and conditional” time extension for the capital to meet EU air targets to curb airborne particles known as PM10.

Darren Johnson, a Green Party member of the London Assembly, will next week ask colleagues to back a motion supporting the 50p tax rate for high earners. Johnson’s motion follows calls by Mayor of London Boris Johnson for the Government to abolish the rate which supporters say affects only the richest 1% of households in the UK.

Government departments and VIPs entitled to purchase London Olympic tickets from a special reserved allocation should publish full details of how they are being paid for and who they’ve been allocated to, according to a new report from the London Assembly. Around 14,000 tickets have reserved for Government bodies and figures, reducing the number of […]