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The head of London’s Metropolitan Police force, Commissioner Cressida Dick, has announced her resignation from the post after meeting with the city’s mayor, Sadiq Khan, whom she said “no longer has sufficient confidence in my leadership.” “He has left me no choice but to step aside as Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police …

The UK is “obsessed” with Ukraine, which is sucking up vast amounts of British and EU money that could’ve been used for their own domestic needs, Russia’s Ambassador to London Andrey Kelin told RT in an interview on Wednesday. Kelin also unloaded on the US, which he says is now …

The number of people being admitted to hospitals in the UK capital more than tripled in December as the Omicron strain of coronavirus took hold and spread like wildfire across Britain.  Data published on Tuesday evening on the UK government’s Covid-19 dashboard, shows that London’s hospitals have been put under …

In an interview with the BBC on Sunday, Sadiq Khan described new restrictions as “inevitable” and called for a “major package of financial support for our hospitality, culture, and retail [sectors]” for when that happens. He argued that if the authorities failed to bring in tougher restrictions “sooner rather than …

“Today I have declared a major incident in London because of the serious threat of Covid-19 to our city. This will help us avoid disruption to frontline services and to the life-saving booster vaccine rollout,” the mayor said on Twitter on Saturday. A major incident is announced when special arrangements …

Officers were dispatched to Marloes Road in the central London borough of Kensington on Saturday afternoon to investigate reports of an armed man entering a bank and a bookmakers. According to a police statement, the man left the scene in a vehicle and was stopped at Palace Gate shortly afterwards. …

The news was confirmed by Westminster City Council on Wednesday. In a statement, Lord Mayor of Westminster Andrew Smith said that Norway’s annual gift plays a “vital role” in making the London borough an even “more beautiful place to visit” over the holiday period, though “its shape and size may …

The protesters came to Parliament Square in Westminster as the new Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts bill was debated in the House of Lords. The controversial draft legislation would expand police powers to restrict and control all public protests, while reinforcing the punishment for causing a public disturbance. The demonstrators …

Protesters marched through Parliament Square, Trafalgar Square, and Oxford Street on Friday, marking the annual Million Mask March, which draws big demonstrations each year on November 5 against government overreach, income inequality, and, more recently, Covid-19 restrictions. Many demonstrators sported Guy Fawkes masks to honour the fictionalised anti-government character depicted …

Assange, who has been held in the maximum-security Belmarsh prison since 2019, was ruled ineligible for extradition to the US in January this year over concerns for his mental health. However, Washington is appealing that decision. Hundreds of protesters rallied outside the court on Wednesday. They held aloft assorted placards …