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Thousands of new hire bikes dubbed Sadiq Cycles are being rolled out across London – offering an upgrade on the original Boris Bikes. The Mayor of London announced the arrival, with the new bikes offering riders improved handling, a new gel saddle, tyres with puncture prevention and BLUETOOTH. The bikes have been designed and built by England's longest established cycle manufacturer Pashley Cycles and will join TfL’s flagship cycle hire scheme over the next few years. Sadiq Khan, said: “It’s...

Jeremy Corbyn attacked the government’s poor record on tackling tax avoidance today, revealing that UK exchequer is missing out on between £34bn and £119bn in tax - enough to cover the education budget or the NHS. At Prime Minister’s Questions, he quizzed Theresa May about why the Tories have repeatedly blocked attempts to deal with tax avoidance and evasion, both in the UK and using their MEP’s in Europe. After addressing the growing scandal of sexual harassment in Westminster, Jeremy...

Government promises to help local authorities with essential fire safety works lie in shatters after it refused to pay for sprinklers in tower blocks. Communities secretary Sajid Javid has refused to commit funding to retro-fit sprinklers to tower blocks, saying that the government will instead await the outcome of a review of fire safety in housing before deciding whether sprinklers should be required by law and paid for by the Government. But according to Labour MP Dan Carden now is not the...

Furious parents have blasted a secondary school after Big Brother-style CCTV cameras were installed in the pupils' TOILETS. School bosses claim the cameras - which are directly above the boys' urinals and the girls' cubicles - are intended to combat bullying and vandalism. But parents have reacted with anger, claiming the surveillance is "intrusive" and "creepy". One female pupil at Summerhill School in Kingswinford, West Mids., was also so upset at being watched using the toilet she burst into tears....

The level of inequality in Britain far outstretches that of our European neighbours or other G7 countries, a new graph has revealed. According to OECD figures published in The Economist the richest people in the UK are leaps and bounds ahead of the poorest groups in terms of GDP per person. The figures were revealed as Jeremy Corbyn piled pressure on Theresa May in today's PMQs for allowing the UK to become a tax haven for the rich. Tory Britain: the...

Harvey Weinstein is to be this year's effigy burned by the Edenbridge Bonfire Society. The society has become renowned in recent years for burning effigies of controversial figures such as Donald Trump, Sepp Blatter and Katie Hopkins. The fire will be lit on Saturday night to raise money for local charities, with more than 10,000 people expected to attend the annual event. This is who Edenbridge Bonfire Society picked as their celebrity effigy this year. See @PA for more pic.twitter.com/SJVZez4hoH — Flora...

As we all know Brexit has not happened yet, however the UK economy already appears to be straining under the uncertainty of our withdrawal from the EU. Food prices are rising, property prices in London are falling, sterling has dropped against other currencies and large sections banking sector appears to be planning to shift operations to Frankfurt. Now the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (Niesr) have said that as sterling has plummeted since the vote back in June...

A truck mowed down cyclists and pedestrians on a riverside path in Manhattan before crashing into a schoolbus in what appears to be the first terrorist attack in Manhattan since 9/11. The attack described by New York city mayor Bill de Blasio as a “a particularly cowardly act of terror” occurred not far from Ground Zero in Lower Manhattan. A suspect from Uzbekistan, named Sayfullo Saipov, 29, has lived in the US since 2010 and worked as an Uber driver. The...

Unable to count on Conservative Party members, the electorate, her DUP allies, and now even her own MPs, Theresa May’s government is now so weakened that it’s being mocked by Tory backbenchers in the House of Commons. Philip Davies is the Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Shipley in West Yorkshire. You may have heard of him from the occasions he used his position to talk out private members’ bills on tackling domestic and sexual violence against women. - With...