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The Latest Breaking News from Sadiq Khan

Plans for new Overground line in west London take major step forward

Sadiq Khan says ‘feasible solutions’ have been identified for ‘all elements’ of the West London Orbital project

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Why Heidi Alexander becoming Transport Secretary should be good news for London

New Cabinet minister is former Sadiq Khan deputy who helped open Elizabeth line and kept TfL during pandemic

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London's WFH habit: Huge numbers of workers are being urged to stay away from the office, survey shows

New figures on Tube, bus and Elizabeth line trips - plus new estimate of 60,000 dockless bikes on capital’s streets

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Heidi Alexander appointed transport secretary after Louise Haigh resigns over mobile phone offence

The Swindon South MP previously worked as Sadiq Khan's deputy transport mayor from 2018 to 2021

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Tories fell thousands short of 'one million homes' promise, data reveals

Labour say the Conservatives ‘misled the public and under-delivered’ - but the new Government faces a huge challenge in meeting its own, higher target

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London Overground: Mayor Sadiq Khan reveals his favourite line after £6.3m rebranding of train network

‘Like naming children, not everyone agrees,’ says TfL chief tasked with turning hundreds of suggestions into a shortlist

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Fake tickets pose 'real risk of harm' to London's New Year's Eve fireworks

The warning comes following the news that the event’s final batch of official tickets will go on sale on Monday, December 2

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Mayor Sadiq Khan launches new London Overground lines and colours

The six lines will be called Lioness, Mildmay, Windrush, Weaver, Suffragette and Liberty.

The Independent UK

Jess Phillips on new anti-domestic violence measures: ‘I feel hopeful today’

Police say strict new restraining orders on domestic abusers will enable them to ‘manage offenders proactively’

The Guardian - UK

Met steps up patrols for Christmas shopping period, as mayor asks Londoners to 'stay alert'

Sadiq Khan warned that ‘organised criminals’ will seek to ‘take advantage of the vast numbers of people’ pouring into London’s shopping destinations

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Three former Conservative prime ministers are against assisted dying bill

Theresa May, Boris Johnson and Liz Truss express opposition to change in law as MPs prepare to vote

The Guardian - UK

Drivers will be charged £4 to use Silvertown and Blackwall tunnels at peak times, TfL confirms

Mayor Sadiq Khan’s £2bn scheme means drivers will be charged to use Blackwall tunnel for first time in 130 years

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Labour urges inquiry into claims Lee Anderson was offered money to join Reform

Call for standards commissioner to look into circumstances of former Tory MP’s defection to Reform party

The Guardian - UK

Sadiq Khan reveals he is against the Assisted Dying Bill - and explains why

The bill, which would allow some terminally ill people to have a medically assisted death, is being debated by MPs on Friday

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TfL spends £1million on parking bays for e-bikes (as thousands more hire bikes due to arrive in London)

Voi to compete with Lime and Forest as designated bays are created on Red Routes after ‘Wild West’ concerns

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London Assembly urges Sadiq Khan to back plan for 'Road Safety Investigation Branch'

Deaths and serious injuries on London’s roads are not independently investigated like those on the railway network

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Deadly Storm Bert: floods aftermath & future planning ...The Standard podcast

Plus! Can Sadiq Khan make Oxford Street great again?

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Sadiq Khan details his plan to build 6,000 rent-controlled homes for 'everyday heroes'

Londoners with household incomes of less than £67,000 per year would be eligible for the homes, with rent increases potentially pegged to wage rises

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Sadiq Khan urged to hold London vote on council tax hike to fund TfL as Tube drivers seek four-day week

Lord Bailey of Paddington raised the idea of a vote in the capital in Parliament

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Christmas means women have to spend more time and money to stay safe

IN FOCUS: December is a time for making merry, but if you are female, a night out can often also be fraught with fear. Olivia Petter investigates why so many women continue to feel frightened when out after dark, and asks whether government awareness campaigns and some of the language…

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London affordable house-building plummets 88 per cent in a year, with some boroughs starting just one each

The collapse in affordable homes started in London in the last financial year compares with a 39 per cent fall across England as a whole

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Sadiq Khan creating 'Oxford Street office' to help him seize control of UK's most famous shopping thoroughfare

Up to 15 jobs created as mayor plots takeover of UK’s most famous shopping street

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'Interference with democracy': High Court battle over LTN removal ramps up

Mayor Lutfur Rahman is said to given ‘unintelligible and inadequate’ reasons for removing three LTNs in Bethnal Green

The Independent UK

Sadiq Khan invites Donald Trump to celebrate Pride in London

The London mayor had a long-running row with Donald Trump during his first term in the White House

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Sadiq Khan invites Donald Trump to next year's Pride festival in London

Mayor says president-elect would also be welcome to join him at Friday prayers

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