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    London Mayor Sadiq Khan has called for a second EU referendum, criticising the government's handling of Brexit negotiations with the EU. Writing in the Observer, the Labour politician said that with the UK due to leave the EU in six months, it now faced either a bad deal or no deal. The debate had also become more about Boris Johnson's political ambitions than what was good for the UK, he said. Tory minister Michael Gove said Mr Khan wanted to frustrate the will of voters. The mayor's comments are also at odds with the Labour's official policy, which is to respect the outcome of the referendum but leave all options on the table if a deal is not agreed by Parliament. Former Tooting MP Mr Khan said that although he campaigned to remain in the EU, he had accepted th...

    A mother and child who fell onto the tracks at a busy Tube station only avoided serious injury by scrambling into a pit to allow an oncoming train to pass above them, police said. The father also leapt down to help the pair as the terrifying incident unfolded at Baker Street station at about 10.15pm on Friday. The woman was walking along the platform, pushing her child in a pram and looking up at the indicator board when she accidentally feel, according to British Transport Police (BTP). Officers said she did not realise how close she was to the edge of the platform and accidentally pushed the buggy wheels over it. She, the buggy and the child then fell onto the track, before the father jumped down to help them. Police said that when they saw the oncoming train, ...

    A London tube train hurtled along at speeds of up to 40mph on Saturday morning with its doors wide open. Christiano Nops filmed as the Jubilee Line train travelled between Finchley Road and West Hampstead stations on Saturday morning. He later uploaded the clip, which shows a number of travellers seated in the carriage, on Instagram. His friend Rory Brown shared the clip on Twitter, adding another message to Transport for London. 'Pretty bloody sketchy! #whatishealthandsafety?' In response to a Twitter user who expressed shock that no one had pulled the emergency handle on the train, Mr Brown clarified that at least 10 doors on one side of the train were open. TfL responded to the clip on Sunday, saying they were aware of the incident and that the faulty train h...

    A terror suspect accused of deliberately crashing a car outside the Houses of Parliament has been identified and is believed to be from the Midlands, according to reports. Forensic officers by the car that crashed into security barriers outside the Houses of Parliament, Westminster The man, in his late twenties, is being held in custody at a south London police station but is not co-operating with officers, counter-terrorism head Neil Basu said on Tuesday. He was arrested on suspicion of terror offences after the silver Ford Fiesta he was driving collided with cyclists and pedestrians before crashing into security barriers outside the House of Lords just before 7.40am on Tuesday. Basu said: Given that this appears to be a deliberate act, the method and this being a...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will lay the foundation stone of an underpass adjacent to Shaheed Ramiz Uddin Cantonment College on the Airport Road in Dhaka today. Earlier, the Premier made a commitment to construct the underpass following the tragic death of two students of the college. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the work on the Padma Bridge rail link on September 5 next. Railways Minister M Mazibul Hoque informed this while visiting the construction site of the Padma Bridge yesterday. Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader visited the ongoing construction work of Elevated Expressway in the capital yesterday. During the visit, he informed the media that 25% of the construction work of the expressway has already been completed. A high-profile Bangladesh dele...

    London.In the early hours of Saturday morning, c. 4.30 am, police were in pursuit of a moped, with two riders, in Grosvenor Place which runs along the west side of Buckingham Palace.The bike crashed and one of the riders was arrested and taken to hospital with suspected broken legs. The other escaped on foot and police are still searching for him.There were two police cars involved. One police car crashed and rolled over. The driver was a experienced driver from Kensington & Chelsea police station. Both officers were bruised, dazed and shaken but both got out of the car with no serious injuries. The road remains closed while scene of crime officers. A police car flipped upside down after it collided with a moped suspected in a series of offences near Buckingham...

President Md. Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, in separate messages on the eve of the National Tree Plantation Campaign and Tree Fair-2018, have called upon all to make effective contribution to saving the green for preserving environment and biodiversity. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has inaugurated the electronic payment system for disbursement of the allowances of Social Safety Net programmes. The PM inaugurated the system through a videoconference from the Ganobhaban yesterday. Under the system, more than 6.6 million beneficiaries would directly draw the money every month from banks after getting the message through mobile phones. Addressing the function, the Prime Minister said, these allowances are just to ensure that no one suffers from starvation, but nobody should st...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant is being constructed with taking full security measures. The Premier said this while addressing a gathering on the occasion of the First Concrete Pouring Ceremony of the Second Unit of the Nuclear Power Plant in Pabna yesterday. Visiting Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Yury Ivanovich Borisov paid a call on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant office in Pabna yesterday. During the meeting, the PM said, her government has the plan to construct more nuclear power plant as the sources of renewable energy. Russian Deputy Prime Minister assured of cooperating Bangladesh in various fields for mutual benefits. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged the countrymen to support her government for the contin...

    Firefighters have successfully doused a grass fire the size of four football pitches close to Heathrow Airport. Five hectares of grass and scrubland caught light in Feltham at 4pm on Saturday and burned for nearly five hours before it was brought under control at 9.43pm the same evening. It took almost 100 firefighters and 15 fire engines to subdue the blaze, and a spokeswoman for London Fire Brigade said the long stretch of dry weather was the probable cause of the fire. Fourteen horses had to be moved to a place of safety. Passengers tweeted photos of the smoke, but a spokesman for the airport said no flights were affected and both runways remained in operation.

Former  Councillor Shahed Ali who was imprisoned for housing fraud has been ordered to repay £180,000 or face being returned to prison. The Confiscation Order requires him to pay £110,000 to Tower Hamlets Council and the Government for money he made as a result of his fraud. He has also been ordered to pay the Council's legal costs of £70,000. In 2009, Mr Ali applied for social housing after claiming to be sleeping on a sofa at a relative's house. He was subsequently given a one bedroom council flat in Christian Street off Brick Lane. However, Mr Ali failed to disclose that in fact he owned a private property at Manchester Road, E14, and had also occupied a property at Cannon Street Road, in the Whitechapel ward he represented. Tower Hamlets Council became suspicious after he applied ...