London cabbies have “had enough” of Lime bikes parking in taxi ranks and have asked for tougher action including fines and prosecutions.

Bridget Phillipson said a Tory amendment to the schools Bill is unnecessary as she defended removing automatic academisation of failing schools.

A panel in the case of a Metropolitan police officer who is alleged to have used the term ‘cotton pickers’ has retired to consider its verdict.

A Metropolitan Police officer could face dismissal over an allegation that she called black officers “cotton pickers”.