Every rush hour, a very middle-class army of volunteers don their hi-vis jackets and take up their positions along the streets of a London borough. Their goal is simple: stop the Labour-run Lambeth council making hundreds of thousands of pounds in fines from unsuspecting motorists.
A Metropolitan Police commander has lost his job after a disciplinary panel found he refused to provide a sample for a drugs test when he was accused of smoking cannabis.
A senior Metropolitan Police officer who drew up Scotland Yard’s anti-drug strategy smoked so much marijuana his flatmate thought he was a dealer, a misconduct panel has been told.