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Met Police officers slammed for spending on iPads and custom jackets

A group of officers in the Met Police has been criticised for spending public money on items like iPads, personalised jackets, and tomahawk axes.

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Met chief Sir Mark Rowley again refuses to use ‘institutional’ to describe police’s problems

Sir Mark Rowley said the word had an “ambiguous” set of meetings, as well as being politically contentious

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‘Several hundred’ officers could be removed from Met after damning report

Baroness Casey said she expected “several hundred” officers to be removed from the Met Police, following her damning report into the organisation’s culture

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Met police boss told to ‘think again’ over refusal to call force racist in wake of scathing report

Baroness Casey told the London Assembly’s policing and crime committee that the Met Commissioner and his deputy were the best people to tackle the “huge” challenge of overhauling the force

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Cross-party calls for new statue of the Queen in ‘prominent’ London location

The London Assembly has unanimously passed a motion in support of the idea

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Opportunity was missed to ‘re-brand’ Prevent strategy, official says

Asked whether Prevent’s image could be improved through a ‘re-brand’, an official at City Hall said ‘that ship has sailed’

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London Fire Brigade brings in new equipment to tackle summer wildfires

Emergency services were caught by surprise last summer when the devastating fire at Wennington leapt across a two-lane road from one side to the other

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Sadiq Khan accused of ‘trying to chuck up any old c**p’ to meet London housing targets

The Mayor hit back at the claim from his political opponent, defending his record on home delivery

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London Ambulance Service told to improve its ethnic diversity

The London Assembly’s health committee pointed out that minority ethnic ambulance staff were disproportionately found in the organisation’s lowest-paid roles

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Sadiq Khan told to consider lower rents for women due to gender pay gap

London Assembly Member Sem Moema said the policy idea could “begin to level the playing field for women” renting in the capital

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Better infrastructure needed in outer London, cyclists warn

Members of the charity Cycle Sisters said the capital’s network of bike lanes needed to be expanded further into outer boroughs

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Concerns raised over use of police in London schools

Senior staff at City Hall said there was widespread support for police in schools - and that there was even a case to expand them into some primary schools

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Plan for 70 new public toilets at Tube and bus stations is refused

The plan won support from Greens, Conservatives and Liberal Democrats, but was voted down by the Labour group

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Labour votes down proposal for City Hall to double Ulez scrappage scheme to £220m

The amendment to the Mayor’s budget had won support from Lib Dem, Conservative and Green members on the London Assembly

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Sadiq Khan says City Hall has no financial plan for if it loses Ulez legal challenge

The Mayor also confirmed that the Ulez expansion timetable had not been impacted at all by the legal challenge

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Met Police urged to reopen Partygate probe over claims No10 staff 'destroyed evidence'

Unmesh Desai, the deputy chair of the London Assembly’s police and crime committee, has written to Met commissioner Mark Rowley asking him to take “new information into account” and revisit the inquiry

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‘Our drug laws are killing people’, says Greens London mayoral candidate as she outlines priorities

Green Party candidate Zoë Garbett is the first challenger to Sadiq Khan to have been revealed so far

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Heathrow: Third runway ‘paused’ but could still go ahead after internal review, officials say

Tony Devenish, Conservative Assembly Member (AM) for West Central London, accused Heathrow of being “consistently opaque” about its expansion plans

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‘Best of the brigade’ - Fire chief praises London firefighters in Turkey

Fire commissioner Andy Roe said the 12 London firefighters in Turkey were setting an example for his whole team

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Ulez critic whose son has breathing difficulties hits back at Sadiq Khan’s ‘Tories don’t care’ claims

A Tory politician has hit back at claims from Sadiq Khan that opponents of the ultra low emission zone (Ulez) “do not care” about the impact of toxic air on children.

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Number of problems in social housing ‘only seem to be getting bigger’, campaigner warns

Activist Kwajo Tweneboa said more tenants were reaching out to him for help with their social housing situations

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Tory politician says he would ‘stand up for millennials’ in possible 2024 run against Sadiq Khan

Nick Rogers, a Conservative member of the London Assembly, said he could fight a campaign which addresses the ‘millennial condition’

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Penny Mordaunt dismisses claim Sadiq Khan is a ‘dictator’ over Ulez expansion

The Commons Leader disagreed with Tory MP Bob Blackman.

Evening Standard

London firefighter took selfie outside Grenfell Tower and used it for Tinder profile

A London firefighter took a selfie outside Grenfell Tower immediately after the tragedy and used it for his Tinder profile, a London Assembly meeting has heard.

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Ulez expansion: Tories accuse Sadiq Khan of false statements over extending pollution charge zone

A spokesperson for the mayor says he did not make any decisions until he received the final report from TfL

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