IT WAS A CASE OF too little, let’s hope it’s not too late as Prime Minister Boris Johnson and London Mayor Sadiq Khan joined forces with the Intercontinental Hotels Group (IHG) to make 300 hotels room available to homeless people. ...
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Sadiq gets it right on Trump
HE DOESN’T always get it right. He has allowed architectural vandalism on Fish Island in Bow and equivocated over giving tenants power to resist developers making a profit out of them. But on Donald Trump’s state visit to the UK, ...
Read More »Sadiq boasts of housing boost
LONDON MAYOR Sadiq Khan is comparing his record of building new homes in the capital by the record of his predecessor(s) – rather than by housing need across London. Khan has just released new figures showing that council house building ...
Read More »Khan map shows little for youth
LONDON MAYOR Sadiq Khan has published an interactive map which purports to show hundreds of activities for youngsters taking place across the capital this summer. However, a look at the map shows how little there is on offer – particularly ...
Read More »Fish Island bridges: Biggs anti, Sadiq unmoved
CAMPAIGNERS TRYING to stop London Mayor Sadiq Khan vandalising Fish Island by permitting a new road bridge to be built and a wharf to be demolished are having a publicity day on Tuesday, 16th January. Activists from the Save the ...
Read More »Sadiq funds new homes for Robin
NEWHAM COULD BE building over 1,000 extra affordable homes in the next four years, thanks to an agreement between Newham Mayor Sir Robin Wales and London Mayor Sadiq Khan. The Mayor of London owns a site in Stephenson Street, Canning Town ...
Read More »Sadiq offers schools more knife wands
LONDON MAYOR Sadiq Khan has responded to the New Year stabbings across London by reminding schools that he has offered to supply them with “knife wands” – metal detectors which help schools check that pupils are not bringing knives onto ...
Read More »Biggs won’t, but Khan can!
ONE OF THE reasons why Tower Hamlets Mayor John Biggs decided to explore privatising the Borough’s three remaining day care nurseries was the cost. His former Cabinet Member for Education and Children’s Services, Cllr Rachael Saunders, who resigned from the ...
Read More »Khan calls on Premier League to fund match police
Hanna-Mariam Chowdhury London is the world’s greatest city for watching the very British sport of football, with fans travelling across the nation and the globe to enjoy the London matchday experience. London’s success – including that of its football clubs – depends ...
Read More »Khan to tax London’s polluting vehicles
LONDON MAYOR Sadiq Khan has announced that the current congestion zone will become an ultra low emission zone in two years time. Once in place, some vehicles will have to pay £12.50 to drive through the centre of the capital ...
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