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London

28Jul By Sumon AdminNo Comments
London

Boris Johnson Apologises For Giving His Barrister Wife A Backie On His Bike

    Boris Johnson apologised on Monday after giving his wife a quick "backie" on his bicycle. The mayor of London was criticised by the national cycling charity CTC for pedalling his barrister wife Marina Wheeler through the city late on Thursday evening, who said he "should have known better". But Johnson's official spokesman said the mayor was "unaware that he was apparently in contravention of the Road and Traffic Act." He said: "The mayor wishes to apologise for offering his wife a short lived lift on the back of his bike. He wasn't intending to ride all the way home from North Kensington to North London with Marina on the back, rather he was attempting to transport his wife to a main road, from where they hailed a black cab for her." The spokesman added: "As everyone k...
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28Jul By Sumon AdminNo Comments
London

Lord Sewel quits: Peer boasts of having sex with BBC presenter and seeing 13 mistresses

    Lord Sewel, who has quit the House of Lords after being embroiled in a sex and drugs scandal, reportedly boasted of having sex with a BBC presenter, it has emerged. The former Labour minister stepped down from the chamber after footage was released appearing to show him snorting cocaine with two sex workers at his property in central London. A police investigation into the claims resulted in a three-hour-long search on the peer’s flat at Dolphin Square on Monday night, with officers leaving the building with several bags of evidence. Additional footage of the alleged incident released by The Sun appears to show Lord Sewel, 69, bragging of having sex with a BBC presenter as he reveals her name and the programme she worked on. “I had her in the attic,” he tells the sex ...
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Rickshaw driver charges £206 for journey down Oxford Street
25Jul By Sumon AdminNo Comments
London

Rickshaw driver charges £206 for journey down Oxford Street

    A rickshaw driver has been filmed trying to charge tourists more than £200 for a journey of one mile that look less than 10 minutes. YouTube footage showed the rickshaw cyclist arguing that the fee had been agreed and his customers must pay. The mother and her son, who appeared not to speak very good English, had already handed over £100. The incident was filmed by a black cab driver, who was outraged. Two policemen are seen intervening to tell the cyclist that he was “ripping off” the tourists. The man was not doing anything illegal because there are currently no regulations for rickshaw rides, and drivers can charge customers what they like. Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, said the incident showed the need to regulate the rickshaw industry. A spokesman for the...
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John Bercow spent £172 on a journey costly travel arrangements of Commons Speaker
24Jul By Sumon AdminNo Comments
London

John Bercow spent £172 on a journey costly travel arrangements of Commons Speaker

    John Bercow fought back a tear as he paid his own tribute to the former Lib Dem leader John Bercow spent £172 on a journey of less than a mile, figures released by the House of Commons have revealed. The cost of the 0.7 mile journey was disclosed in receipts published following a Freedom of Information request that expose the remarkable cost to the taxpayer of the Speaker’s travel arrangements. Mr Bercow took an official car to travel to Canterbury to see Archbishop Justin Welby enthroned in 2013 at a cost to the taxpayer of £524. A journey of 1.8 miles to Margaret Thatcher’s funeral set the taxpayer back by £158. And the cost to the public purse for the Speaker to travel to the University of Bedfordshire to give a lecture on reforming Parliament following the “adapt ...
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Police raid in Whitechapel
23Jul By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, London

Police raid in Whitechapel

    Armed police have this afternoon (22nd July) raided premises in Whitechapel Road. The premises appeared to be in Court Street, a small cul de sac to the north of Whitechapel Road, near the Tube station. Passers by observed nine armed police officers. One also had a standard police battering ram and one had a crosbar. Three men were taken away by the police. Two were of Asian appearance and one of African appearance. The three were handcuffed.
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Welfare cuts passed despite Labour rebellion
21Jul By Sumon AdminNo Comments
London

Welfare cuts passed despite Labour rebellion

    Acting Labour party leader Harriet Harman Labour was on Monday night in disarray after a fifth of the party's MPs rebelled during a vote on Tory welfare reforms. Around 48 Labour MPs openly defied interim leader Harriet Harman by refusing to abstain on the Government's welfare bill which was passed with 308 votes in favour and 124 against. Miss Harman believes that her party should not oppose all of George Osborne's benefits cuts in a bid to avoid the charge that Labour is the "party of welfare". Rather than voting against the bill, Miss Harman wanted her backbenchers to vote for a Labour amendment and to then abstain on the second reading of the welfare. But scores of furious Labour MPs decided to vote against the bill, with a number accusing Miss Harman of being "a ...
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Seven Injured As Roof Ripped Off London Bus
19Jul By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, London

Seven Injured As Roof Ripped Off London Bus

    Seven people have been injured after a London double-decker bus crashed into a bridge. The roof was sliced off in the incident, which happened in Norwood, south London, at around 9.15pm on Saturday. A hazardous response team, two ambulances, two medical response cars and a duty manager were called out. The seven injured people are understood to have been sitting on the top deck of the 197 service heading to Peckham. Four of them were taken to Croydon University Hospital with minor injuries. A spokesman for London Ambulance Service said one woman with neck pain was given a collar and put on a board as a precaution. A black and yellow striped sign to the right of the bridge reads: "Warning low bridge. Not suitable for double deck vehicles." The A215 Portland Rd at Ma...
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UK to help destroy Islamic State: Cameron
19Jul By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, London

UK to help destroy Islamic State: Cameron

    Britain is committed to working with the US to destroy the "caliphate" set up by Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria, the prime minister has said. David Cameron told US TV network NBC he wanted the UK to do more but said he needed to "take Parliament with him". MPs voted against proposed military action in Syria two years ago. Lord Richards, former chief of defence staff, called for a new strategy to defeat IS, saying he suspected ground troops would be deployed in the future. Mr Cameron is due to use a speech on Monday to warn young Britons tempted to join IS fighters they will end up as little more than "cannon fodder". "If you are a boy, they will brainwash you, strap bombs to your body and blow you up. If you are a girl, they will enslave and abuse you," he...
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Lorries could be banned from city streets to make them safer for cyclists
16Jul By Sumon AdminNo Comments
London

Lorries could be banned from city streets to make them safer for cyclists

    Between 2008 and 2012 lorries were involved in 53 per cent of London cyclist deaths The Government is looking at restricting lorries in inner-city areas to improve the safety of roads for people on bikes and pedestrians. David Cameron is said to have asked officials at the Department for Transport to examine whether some form of lorry ban would be feasible after a meeting with concerned MPs. Other measures the Department for Transport will be asked to examine include staggered light phasing at junctions, design improvements for construction trade vehicles, and changes to road design. Conservative MP Sarah Wollaston, who chairs the Health Select Committee, said there was a case for restricting lorries based on past casualties. "Six out of seven of the deaths in London ...
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Mayor John Biggs and Deputy Mayor Cllr Shiria Khatun praise Ex-Mayor Lutfur Rahman’s work but no name check
13Jul By Sumon AdminNo Comments
London

Mayor John Biggs and Deputy Mayor Cllr Shiria Khatun praise Ex-Mayor Lutfur Rahman’s work but no name check

    Tower Hamlets Council has scooped a prestigious award for its work in preventing counterfeiting. The Global Anti-Counterfeiting Group (ACG) Awards are presented for outstanding achievement by individuals, companies or organisations involved in combating counterfeiting and piracy worldwide. ACG represents the interests of UK and international companies, who manufacture products from toothpaste to mobile phones, chocolate to car parts. Their membership also includes lawyers, trademark agents and brand protection specialists, creating a unique environment for anti-counterfeiting interests to flourish and collaborate. The award winners were announced during the Trading Standards Institute (TSI) Confer-ence held in Bournemouth at the start of the month. The 2015 ACG Departme...
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