Tag Archives: Caroline Pidgeon

Davey, Pidgeon, Umunna all cave-in over Twitter smears

Posted on December 5, 2019 by

CARL SHILTON on how support for the Sutton and Cheam LibDem candidate’s nasty smear campaign started to evaporate, following challenges through formal complaints and threats of libel action It started yesterday, around noon time. The first of the offending social … Continue reading →

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Transport expert asks RAIB to re-open tram safety investigation

Posted on November 28, 2019 by

Transport for London has been accused of covering up a second safety report into fatigue among tram drivers – when driver tiredness thought to be one of the prime causes of the 2016 Croydon tram crash, in which seven people … Continue reading →

Posted in Caroline Pidgeon, Florence Eshalomi, London Assembly, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, Sandilands derailment, TfL, Tramlink, Transport | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

TfL ‘scandal putting passengers at risk’ over driver fatigue

Posted on September 9, 2019 by

Three years on from the Croydon tram crash, London’s transport chiefs’ reluctance, or failure, to act decisively on the issue of driver fatigue on the capital’s buses and tram network is “a scandal that is putting passengers at risk”, according … Continue reading →

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Mayor refuses to say if Barwell was questioned over Grenfell

Posted on July 26, 2019 by

Unlike most people when newly out of work, gaffe-prone Gavin Barwell didn’t spend his first day of unemployment looking for a new job. The £150,000 per year Downing Street chief of staff until Boris Johnson’s coronation on Wednesday, Barwell spent … Continue reading →

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Bonham selected by LibDems to seize Assembly seat chance

Posted on June 14, 2019 by

Political editor WALTER CRONXITE reports that while Labour in London is sitting on their hands over next year’s Assembly elections, their polling booth rivals are already getting to work Chuka Umunna, who was elected as the Labour MP for Streatham … Continue reading →

Posted in Caroline Pidgeon, Claire Bonham, London Assembly, Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, Shaun Bailey, Sutton Council | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

LibDem by-election candidate whose businesses left £9m debts

Posted on March 4, 2019 by

EXCLUSIVE: Campaigning in the Wallington North council by-election in Sutton is well underway, with the Liberal Democrats championing a candidate who has a recent record of business failures that have left his employees and the taxman hugely out of pocket. … Continue reading →

Posted in Barry Lewis, Caroline Pidgeon, London Assembly, London-wide issues, Nick Mattey, Policing, Ruth Dombey, Sutton Council, Tom Brake MP | Tagged , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Now Mayor Khan takes an axe to his tree-planting programme

Posted on August 1, 2018 by

Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, has effectively cried “Timber!” to his promise to plant 2million trees along the capital’s roads. Such is the pressure on Transport for London’s budgets that it no longer has a dedicated amount of money … Continue reading →

Posted in Caroline Pidgeon, Environment, Health, London Assembly, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, TfL, Waste incinerator | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

‘Residents expect to be safe travelling on public transport’

Posted on December 7, 2017 by

Politicians at Croydon Town Hall and in City Hall this afternoon called for all of the recommendations in the RAIB report to be implemented as soon as possible. The Rail Accident Investigations Branch report published today followed an investigation into … Continue reading →

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Landlord licensing scheme made one prosecution in a year

Posted on November 24, 2017 by

BARRATT HOLMES on some surprising statistics regarding the borough’s private landlords The Labour-run council’s controversial landlord licensing scheme, which has collected an estimated £6million from the borough’s private landlords, has made just a single prosecution in the past 12 months. … Continue reading →

Posted in Alison Butler, Caroline Pidgeon, Croydon Council, Housing, Landlord licensing, London Assembly, London-wide issues | Tagged , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Drivers warned of fatigue risks two years before tram crash

Posted on October 5, 2017 by

The operators of the Croydon tram network were formally warned by staff two and a half years before the tragic Sandilands derailment that the company’s shift system was creating dangerous levels of fatigue among its drivers “which could lead to … Continue reading →

Posted in Addiscombe West, Caroline Pidgeon, London Assembly, Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, Sandilands derailment, TfL, Tramlink, Transport | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments