Foxconn employees have lunch in the Shenzhen plant dining hall: Apple has asked the Fair Labor Association to investigate working conditions at Foxconn, where iPhones are made. Photo: Imaginechina/Corbis SEE ALL 117 PHOTOS Apple announced on Monday that

9 February 2012 Last updated at 14:35 ET Boris Johnson said it was the first time the council tax precept had been reduced The Mayor of London's £14bn budget for next year, including for policing and transport, has been passed. Boris Johnson said it was

Mayorwatch asked the opposing parties for their alternative budgets. John Biggs (Labour) highlighted that the Mayor’s £3.10 a year cut in council tax per household was outweighed by fare rises, and proposed reinstating cuts to Safer Neighbourhood Teams (

The Times yesterday launched its ‘Save our Cyclists’ campaign. It comes after Mary Bowers, a young journalist at the paper, was hit by a cement truck outside King’s Cross one Friday morning as she made her way to work; she remains in a coma. Unfortunatel

Those of us who have suggested David Miliband’s latest political intervention may have – let’s say – ulterior motives have received a bit of flak. Must he stay silent just because any public pronouncement may be misconstrued by the media? Why can’t he co

Boris Johnson’s announcement of a 1% cut in the City Hall component of Londoners’ council tax has been met with astonishment verging on ridicule (see Labour AM John Biggs’ “onion argument”). It reduces the average household payment by the staggering figu