Banks suspend currency exchange after Travelex cyber attack January 8, 2020 High street banks Barclays, Lloyds and Royal Bank of Scotland are without foreign currency services after a cyber attack against forex giant Travelex. The banks, who get their foreign notes from Travelex, said supplies were running short after last week’s attack, in which hackers warned the firm that unless it paid $6m (£4.6m) they would [...]
Questions raised over Rory Stewart association with church under fraud cloud January 8, 2020 Mayoral candidate Rory Stewart has been criticised for associating himself with a church being investigated for fraud by the Metropolitan Police and the Charity Commissioner. Croydon-based SPAC Nation was set up by former gang members to try and combat knife crime in BAME communities. Read more: Rory Stewart rails against ‘unnecessarily high’ skyscrapers in the [...]
Six people arrested in connection to Labour antisemitism claims January 8, 2020 Six people have been arrested in relation to antisemitism allegations within the Labour Party, according to London’s police commissioner. Metropolitan Police commissioner Cressida Dick revealed today that files have been sent to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) to deliberate on whether to charge the individuals. Read more: Equality watchdog launches probe in Labour antisemitism Dick [...]
Travelex held to ransom by hackers January 7, 2020 Hackers are holding foreign exchange giant Travelex to ransom, after a cyber attack forced the company to switch off all its computer systems. It has been reported that hackers infiltrated the company’s systems on New Year’s Eve and that it has taken down 30 of its websites to contain “the virus and protect data”. Read [...]
Former Met chief Lord Hogan-Howe joins listed law firm Rosenblatt January 6, 2020 Former London police chief Lord Bernard Hogan-Howe has joined listed law firm Rosenblatt as an adviser, the firm said today. Hogan-Howe was the head of London’s Metropolitan Police as commissioner of police of the metropolis from 2011 until 2017. During his time in office, Hogan-Howe oversaw the London 2012 Olympics and dealt with the aftermath [...]
Met Police reveals time-wasting 999 calls December 30, 2019 The Metropolitan Police has released details of some of the more than 25,000 hoax 999 calls it received this year. Among the calls received this year that were not an emergency was a woman that rang 999 to complain about being sent three saveloys from the chip shop instead of one. The hoax calls also [...]
New Year’s Eve in London 2019: Where to watch the fireworks December 28, 2019 While the official tickets to watch London’s firework display from the banks of the River Thames have long sold out, there are plenty of spots around the city to watch the action for free. This year’s event opposite the London Eye is the fifth in succession that has been all-ticketed, but travel disruption and overcrowding [...]
Muggings and robberies have shot up in London since 2015 December 19, 2019 The amount of muggings and pickpocketing in London has risen by 56 per cent in the past three years. Figures from the Metropolitan Police and the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime dashboard show there were 53,966 reported incidents of “theft from person” between August 2018 and September 2019. Read more: TfL: Crime rates on [...]
Boris Johnson thanks north of England for ‘breaking voting habits of generations’ December 14, 2019 Boris Johnson has thanked the north of England for “breaking the voting habits of generations” during a visit to Sedgefield today. The Prime Minister visited the former seat of Tony Blair after celebrating the Conservative’s 80-seat majority – the party’s largest since 1987. It was the first time the Country Durham constituency has been held [...]
The green belt cannot remain sacred if we are to solve London’s housing crisis December 13, 2019 With the General Election over and the nation reflecting on the result, the focus on politics in the capital is far from over, as 2020 sees Londoners turn their attention to the race to be the next mayor. Among many key issues for discussion ahead of May’s election will be housing shortages, particularly the thorny [...]