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THE CASE AGAINST: Blunt tool that will slow London down

IN RESIDENTIAL areas, near schools, and in some central locations popular with pedestrians, 20mph limits make sense and have a clear role in eliminating deaths and serious injuries. However, radically reducing speed limits on major arterial roads is wholly inappropriate.

No silver bullet but a life-saver all the same

MORE than 400 people were killed on London's roads in 1990. Increasing volumes of traffic, unsafe roads and speeding prompted many to demand lower speeds in their streets and neighbourhoods.

Limit cut to just 20mph on over half of all London roads

THE speed limit on more than half of London's roads has been cut to 20mph in a bid to tackle speeding and improve safety, it can be revealed.

Fishtails, corsets and couture kick-start London Fashion Week

HARRIS REED opened London Fashion Week with his signature off-schedule, extraordinarily dramatic show in what has quickly become a tradition over the past few seasons.

Standard duo shortlisted for awards

TWO Evening Standard journalists have been shortlisted for the London Press Club awards.

Looney's shock BP exit dominates London market trader chatter

THE shock resignation of one of the UK's most influential captains of industry was the main talking point on London's stock market today, as the FTSE 100 held steady overall.

London Fashion Week is a hit but designers miss vital edge

SUMMER 2023 has been far from ideal for the High Street, with a washout July knocking sales and most recently a September heatwave arriving just as jackets and knitwear hit store floors. So retailers in the capital will relish the prospect of scores of well-heeled, and often high-spending, fans of designer goods being in town for London Fashion Week (LFW).

Kruis joins the camp to help with lineouts

GEORGE KRUIS is helping with England's lineout preparations at the World Cup, writes Nick Purewal.

Davies: TMOs need protecting from threats

JONATHAN DAVIES believes the identities of Television Match Officials should be kept anonymous to boost refereeing in top-level rugby, writes Nick Purewal.

No contest as Curry receives minimum two-match ban

ENGLAND adopted a damage limitation approach to Tom Curry's disciplinary hearing in a bid to have the Sale flanker available for a possible Rugby World Cup quarter-final.

England's 'crash course' to get them ready for knockout stage

Fitness guru Walters vows to take players to dark places’ to reach peak of their powers

World's top fashion giant roars ahead

THE world's biggest fashion retailer Inditex, owner of chains such as Zara (right), Massimo Dutti and Bershka, today continued a \"hot streak\" and revealed that first-half sales jumped 13.5% to reach €16.9 billion (£14.6 billion).

When BP chiefs depart it's usually a dramatic exit

BY any standards running the company of the geopolitical scale and scope of BP should be regarded as one of the most important posts in British commerce.

Teamviewer set to save €50m as Man United axe sponsor

REMOTE computer access firm TeamViewer said today it would save more than €50 million (£43 million) after Manchester United cut short their front-of-shirt sponsorship deal with the German business.

George Ford has to start for England, even if it means a long road back for Farrell

Seniority should go out of the window entirely if England find themselves with a tough selection decision to make between George Ford and Owen Farrell at the Rugby World Cup.

Angela Rayner has delivered a striker's charter

THERE was a bit of Angela Rayner's barnstorming appearance at the TUC yesterday which should have worried business and that was before she even started. It was when TUC president Maria Exall introduced her as \"one of us\" - as opposed to Sir Keir Starmer, who really doesn't have the worker vibe.

Wages rise, GDP falls, and the Tories are looking lost at sea

THE difficulty in figuring out if Britain's economic  performance is sluggish or worse depends on whether we are in search of clouds or inspired by silver linings.

My recipe for a perfect martini? Be bloody careful who makes it

GIVEN THAT I suspect anyone searching for their personality in a newspaper column simply may not have one, I tend to avoid those occasional \"this is what your order says about you\" stories. But as I send back bad martinis, I suppose I'll concede that some food and drink preferences really are idiosyncratic.

A little bit like Harvester and Gaucho had a baby

EVEN the most relaxed restaurant experiences require some early admin. Even establishments that would rather defenestrate every biodynamic wine bottle in their cellar than utter the words \"allow us to explain our concept\" need to give uninitiated diners a vague sense of how everything works.

Why Rowley has to get killers, by Stephen's father

THE father of Stephen Lawrence today said remaining gang members who murdered his teenage son must be brought to justice if Met chief Sir Mark Rowley is to rebuild trust in the force.

Bodies in the street and mass graves as Libya floods kill more than 5,000

A DESPERATE search for survivors of the deadly floods in Libya was under way today as officials said the death toll had risen to more than 5,000 and the United.

Nice to see you? Russian president's reliance on North Korea may prove to be not so nice

THE forced smiles of Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia's far east seemed to say it all.

Putin's summit with Kim lays bare his isolation as West watches for arms deal

VLADIMIR PUTIN'S increasing isolation on the world stage and struggle to feed his war machine were laid bare today as he met North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.

Lie back to enjoy new art at National Gallery

Visitors take it easy to view sculpture on the ceiling by Céline Condorelli

I'm the winner, it's me: Swift's big night at MTV awards

TAYLOR SWIFT enjoyed a history-making night at the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards, tying for most wins in a night with nine trophies.

Murray believes winning Cup repeat on the cards

ANDY MURRAY is confident that Great Britain can be crowned Davis Cup champions once more when the team get under way in Manchester tomorrow.

Trio's timely return boosts England's World Cup bid

ENGLAND'S preparations for the World Cup received a boost this morning, as Adil Rashid, Jason Roy and Dawid Malan all returned to training ahead of tomorrow's Third ODI against New Zealand.

Exiled Chalobah weighs up January exit

TREVOH CHALOBAH is considered surplus to requirements and could be frozen out at Chelsea.

Failure to experiment is a missed opportunity

Southgate has chance to run rule over Euros wannabes but will make minimum changes

White's torrid times have brought new optimism

BEN WHITE, more than most, has earned the right to live his World Cup in the moment.