Conservative London mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey

His election pledges include recruiting 8,000 police officers, hiring 4,000 youth workers and reinstating neighbourhood police teams in every council ward.

London Mayoral Election 2021: Conservative candidate Shaun Bailey

For almost seven decades Prince Philip was a fixture at royal engagements in London. From his final public appearance To his first, 69 years earlier.

Prince Philip: A fixture at royal engagements in London

People jog along the riverside path past Tower Bridge and City Hall in London. Picture date: Thursday January 28, 2021.

It costs £10,000 to join the contest. The deposit is lost if candidates get fewer than 5% of the votes.

London Mayoral Election 2021: Deadline day for wannabe London mayors

Bailiffs began an operation to clear the camp in woodland at Denham Country Park, Bucks early this morning.

Activists being evicted from an anti-HS2 camp on edge of London

Commuters boarding a train at Farringdon Underground station, London, during a 48-hour tube strike…


Squeezing into crowded spaces was a familiar part of commuting before the pandemic but times have changed London's transport boss told The Late Debate.

Are packed Tubes really a thing of the past in a post-pandemic London?

Aerial photo of houses at Bexleyheath, SE London.


Half of the increase will fund free travel for under 18s and over 60s. Opposition Tories called on the mayor to cut £100m from his budget.

Mayor Sadiq Khan set to increase London council tax by nearly 10%

Boxes of coronavirus testing kits are prepared at Woking Fire Statio

Around 2,500 households in Woking’s GU22 postcode will begin receiving PCR test kits from tomorrow.

Why Woking is a Covid surge testing target for the second time

ITV News visited mass vaccination centres in Ealing and Wembley which were operating below capacity. There were no visible queues.

Number of Londoners getting jabs shows worrying signs of slowing down

090221 Environmental activists were today accused of wasting £500,000 of council taxpayers' money as bailiffs began an operation to evict them from trees on a north London housing estate (c) Activist video

Legal fees, delays to the project and security costs have led to a bill of 'around half a million pounds'.

Tree eviction 'wastes £500,000' as protestors claim to have dug tunnel

The activist who calls himself Lazer is among at least eight people defying a court order to leave the underground warren beneath Euston Square Gardens.

HS2 bailiffs try to free eco warrior from steel and concrete arm lock

The transport secretary indicated he had serious concerns about forcing people from outside the capital to fund London's transport system.

Grant Shapps appears to dismiss Sadiq Khan's daily vehicle charge threat

ITV News Political Editor Robert Peston shares important disclosures made in recent weeks that suggest Greensill was heading for collapse over many months.

Cameron lobbied Treasury and Bank of England chiefs for Greensill

Lack of an adequate complaints process means many tenants are forced to live in mouldy, damaged properties - often for several years.

UK housing crisis: The tenants who complain and complain, but get nowhere

From its shrinking glaciers, to its advancing desert and infamous smoggy cities. The climate change challenges facing China are complex and vast.

China's climate crisis: 'I worry about an earthquake or natural disaster'

The new computer will lead to a super leap in weather and climate forecasting.

Met Office and Microsoft to build climate supercomputer

Fans who played no small part in the Super League’s downfall maybe have a spring in their step today but the lasting emotion will be a sense of betrayal.

The damage runs deep: What next for the Big 6?

There were celebrations on the street as the verdict came in, but now many people will ask - what happens next?

George Floyd: Crowds cheer verdict in the street but what happens next?

Minneapolis has become a place to learn about America’s desperate need to reassess everything about race and policing.

George Floyd: America's time to reassess issues with race and policing

Nairo and Saba were born in captivity but have been released into the wild in South Africa.

Simon Harris

Political Correspondent