A ban on junk food advertising has been rolled out across London's entire public transport today in an effort to tackle the "ticking time bomb" of child obesity in the capital. Posters for food and drink high in fat, salt and sugar will begin to be removed from the Underground,...
A UKIP councillor has been mocked on social media for sending out a pamphlet littered with errors - including mispelling the word BRITAIN. The clumsy leaflet - shared with residents in Peterborough - focused on campaigning to have jailed MP Fiona Onasanya removed from her seat. The leaflet, which displayed...
Footage of Southern rail workers chucking dirty water from a mop bucket on a homeless man has resulted in outrage on social media. A film has emerged of two station staff tipping soapy water on the man as he laid on the ground outside Sutton station. He appears to be...
Philip Hammond has been urged to use next month's Spring Statement to outline measures to fix the broken labour market and rescue the working poor. The Commons work and pensions committee chairman Frank Field called on the chancellor to tackle an "overwhelming precariousness" that has "engulfed families in low-waged work"....
The Church of England has put forward plans for five days of Brexit prayers after Britain leaves the European Union at the end of next month. Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, the church's spiritual leader, says he wants to pray in public with the leaders of the Catholic, Methodist, Baptist...
A video of Chuka Umunna schooling his future self on the virtues of staying loyal to your party has gone viral after the MP left Labour to found the Independent Group. The video, which was first published in 2016, called on those considering leaving the Labour Party to stay. He...
With the Oscars just hours away we thought we'd hit film buffs with this enticing quiz to see how well you really know the prestige event. The Favourite, Vice, Free Solo and Mary Queen of Scots are all up for gongs at this year's awards in what is expected to...
This week's announcement that nine Labour MPs have quit the party to join forces with centrist Conservatives as the Independent Group sounds like a little bit of history repeating for those old enough to remember the formation of the Social Democratic Party. In January 1981, four cabinet ministers announced their intention to...
A new campaign has launched today encouraging more City financial and professional services firms to pay the London Living Wage. The City of London Corporation, which runs the campaign backed by the Living Wage Foundation, is taking over the London Underground with a poster campaign to get more firms to...