Sadiq Khan cracked a joke at his Tory mayor rival Susan Hall’s expense when he pretended he had been pickpocketed on the Tube.Addressing the City Hall Christmas party on Thursday night, Mr Khan said: “Sorry I’m late everyone, the copy of my speech was pickpocketed on the way.”
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00:00 I'm at Hanoak station on the eastern end of the Central Line to see the first refurbished
00:06 Central Line train enter testing. Here it comes now, the first of the refurbished trains on the
00:13 Central Line. TfL is essentially going back to the future to revitalise one of its most
00:20 important lines with these new trains now re-entering service one a month for the next
00:25 couple of years. I'm so impressed, well I've just come on the Central Line from at Bank and you can
00:31 see the comparison and contrast. It looks like a new train, ostensibly it is a new train because
00:36 what the team at TfL have done, and I thank all the fitters, is that they've managed to
00:40 change basically everything but at massively reduced cost but also the improvements with
00:47 CCTV now on the Central Line, possibility for wheelchairs to be properly parked away on these
00:54 tubes, better lit, really really important and we've got a new moquette on the Central Line.
00:59 The refurbished trains have new motors, new onboard lighting, new seating and crucially
01:06 CCTV for the first time in a bid to improve safety on the underground. So CCTV on the Central Line
01:14 is a great benefit for us in terms of crime and security and it's twofold, one in terms of
01:18 reassuring passengers, you know creating that environment where they feel safe and they have
01:23 that trust and confidence that the CCTV will be there should anything occur and second of all it's
01:29 a big deterrent for would-be offenders if they know that there's quality CCTV cameras on the
01:33 underground. Now this is one of the old trains behind me about to depart but it'll probably take
01:37 until 2025 until passengers see these trains reach the end of the line and the new trains reappear.