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Passengers of the Tube network in London will be able to make calls and go online by mid 2020s. The Transport of London (TfL) has announced plans for mobile users to get 4G access across the Tube network. There are already 260 wi-fi enabled stations on the London Underground and on TfL rail services. Shashi Verma,…
Sadiq Khan has announced plans to implement London’s biggest car-free day to date closing 12.3 miles of roads in the centre of the capital. The event is said to take place on September 22nd. Roads will be closed around London Bridge, Tower Bridge and most of the city of London, this is to tackle the…
A rising number of businesses are giving training to their staff on how to help in the aftermath of a terror attack. This comes after concerns about the amount of time it could take for emergency services to reach victims. This follows up from the evidence at the London Bridge inquest about the delays from…
A London assembly member has came out and said that no fire alarms were heard in the latest apartment fires in Barking. Twenty flats with wooden balconies were destroyed and another 10 damaged in the fire in De Pass Gardens on Sunday. Assembly member Andrew Boff said no fire alarm sounded during the blaze, which…
The government is to pay the £200 million bill of replacing Grenfell Tower-type cladding on around 150 private blocks in England with a safer option. Housing Secretary James Brokenshire had previously said the bill should be paid by the owners not the taxpayers. Seventy-two people died when Grenfell Tower was destroyed by fire in June…
The Ultra Low Emissions Zone (ULEZ) has come into force in central London. Drivers of older, more polluting vehicles are being charged to enter the congestion zone area at any time. Transport of London (TfL) hope the move will reduce the number of pollution cars in the capital and estimates that 40,000 vehicles will be…
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