Unmesh Desai says that access to "bricks and mortar" stations brings more benefits than low crime reporting stats suggest
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Transport for London has not revealed what the problem is despite repeated questions
The full list of 18 closures across London has now been confirmed as Met says it will save £7m from budget
London mayor warned young people leaving care often encounter “care cliff” when they turn 18
The assembly’s health committee found the previous decline in HIV diagnoses in London “appears to have stalled”
London mayor Sir Sadiq Khan urged to do more to tackle misogyny and violence against women and girls
The London Assembly has told the mayor that residents often do not feel “meaningfully involved in high street regeneration plans”
More than 30,000 Londoners are on waiting lists for allotments with some waiting as long as 17 years to get one
Last year's defeated Conservative mayoral candidate has been told to apologise after posting an image on X showing the London mayor drowning
The mayor pledged in 2021 to instruct TfL to ban adverts from casinos and betting websites on the transport network
It comes after Met Police data revealed that London saw 70,137 phone thefts in 2024, up from 39,202 two years earlier
The London Assembly has heard how parts of the capital are blighted by ‘not-spots’ where Londoners struggle with slow internet
A Green member of the London Assembly is calling for interim targets to be set before 2030
City Hall Conservatives wanted Sir Sadiq Khan to spend £4.5m on an “independent inquiry into the exploitation of children in London”
Tories on the London Assembly argue new 20mph zones have caused unnecessary delays on buses but Sadiq Khan denies this
London Assembly committee finds grassroots music venues “still facing considerable financial pressures”
The former Conservative mayoral candidate said she wanted to throw the Labour mayor into a black hole
London Assembly hears plan is about ensuring improved access to swimming for some of capital’s most deprived communities
The idea for a safe drug-taking clinic in London follows the UK’s first such facility opening in Scotland earlier this month
Unmesh Desai had been under investigation by the Metropolitan Police
Two Tory assembly members walk out of committee meeting over Green Party chair's decision to avoid picking all-male panel
Assembly member Lord Bailey claimed there is “a strong possibility” that grooming gangs have operated in the capital
The mayor was re-elected last year on a pledge to “make rivers in London swimmable within ten years”
Online Watch Link (Owl) allowed Metropolitan Police officers to share local crime information and advice directly with Londoners



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