Campaigners celebrated outside City Hall on Friday after learning that Transport for London (TfL) has made a renewed commitment to help asylum seekers gain...
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The Town Hall has honoured the community “heroes” at the mayor’s annual awards ceremony, for their help in making Islington a “more equal place”.
This week Tonic Housing has released Precarious Lives, a landmark report exposing the stark financial hardships faced by LGBTQ+ over-50s in London.
More locations have signed up to the Warm Welcome scheme in Islington in the past two years, new figures show.
Domestic gas and electricity usage in Islington has declined following the coronavirus pandemic, new figures show.
Londoners who work at night are 40 per cent more likely not to earn a ‘real living wage’ than those who don’t, a new report has warned.
Sadiq Khan’s plan to build thousands of rent-controlled homes could save ‘key workers’ in London up to £600 per month on their rent, according to City Hall.
More emergency food parcels were handed out in Islington in recent months, new figures show.
Sadiq Khan’s decision to fund free lunches for every primary school child in London has brought “significant benefits” for the capital’s children, parents and...
The London Assembly has urged mayor Sadiq Khan to consider ways of helping asylum seekers with their public transport costs.
More than 140,000 Londoners will get a pay boost of 5.3 per cent as it was revealed on Wednesday that the capital’s ‘real living wage’ has increased to £13.85...
Roughly 127,000 pensioners in the capital are at risk of losing their winter fuel allowance despite being theoretically eligible to keep it, an analysis by Age...
More than half of the almost 600,000 Londoners who do not earn a ‘real living wage’ have had to resort to using a foodbank in the last year, a new report has...
How Action Against Food Poverty is making a difference, one conversation at a time
Sadiq Khan has said he wants to see the two child benefit cap scrapped “as soon the Labour Government can”.
Two of Sadiq Khan’s opponents in the upcoming City Hall election have urged the capital’s Labour mayor to help Londoners take advantage of a little-known Tube...
Young people in London who grew up in care are now able to apply for a half-price discount on their bus and tram travel.
Sadiq Khan has said he is “hopeful” a resolution will be found to stop London Overground staff going on strike in February and March.
Sadiq Khan is under pressure to reveal whether he plans to extend his free school meal programme into the next academic year.
Sadiq Khan has dismissed the idea of introducing a “24-hour cooldown” period for people driving non-compliant vehicles in the Ultra low emission zone (Ulez).
More food parcels were handed out in Islington between April and September than in any summer since at least 2018, new figures show.
Just 13 per cent of Londoners over the age of 60 believe the capital is “a place where older people are valued”, a new report warns.
Around one in eight households with children in London say they are going without essentials such as food, electricity or gas, new polling has revealed.
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