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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, Overground, buses and bus shelters from Monday. Some adverts for unhealthy products could remain on the network for a while as some companies have booked advertising space for long periods....

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 the UKIP logo and a picture of Peterborough councillor John Whitby, read: "Peterborough. Shaping Britians Future". Eagle-eye social media users were quick to point out the grammatical errors as the...

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". His pleas come as a new survey found one in three workers are falling behind with household bills, with many turning to payday loans. Centre for Labour and Social Studies...

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 and United Reformed churches on the day after Britain leaves. Speaking to the Sunday Times, a senior Church of England source said: "I would hope that it will resonate with...

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 said: "The only way you are going to see your values implemented in office is if Labour gets back into government, and we can't do that if the Labour family...

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 pay at least the London Living Wage of £10.55 per hour. The posters will be displayed at nine of the capital’s busiest tube stations, including Liverpool Street, Euston, Victoria and...

Tony Foulds was just eight-years-old when an American B-17 Flying Fortress came down in Endcliffe Park after trying to avoid him and his young friends

Austerity policies have resulted in nine years of slower growth and left us all £1,495 a year worse off, analysis by The New Economics Foundation has revealed. The think tank found the impact of tax and spending changes since the Conservatives came to power had left the economy £100 billion smaller than it would otherwise have been. As a result, the cumulative effect of tax, public spending and welfare adjustments on growth by the end of the 2018-19 financial year had left the...

Scientists say the Gaskiers glaciation could have been triggered by huge amounts of carbon dioxide being absorbed as part of the weathering process of the solidified lava