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City Hall’s falling-knife claim sparks row as data and victims’ families clash

A row has erupted over the Mayor of London’s assertion that knife crime in the capital has fallen, a...

Community category • 2025-08-13 05:12

PR agency picketed as Chick‑fil‑A expansion reignites LGBT+ rights row

The Peter Tatchell Foundation staged a demonstration outside a London communications agency this wee...

Community category • 2025-08-13 05:10

Roger K. Burton, who saved the Horse Hospital and championed outsider culture, dies aged 76

Roger K. Burton, the mod‑obsessed collector and curator who rescued a derelict Georgian stable in Bl...

Community category • 2025-08-12 19:36

Susan Hall urges ticketing and review after Notting Hill Carnival 'narrowly avoided' mass crush

Susan Hall, the London Assembly Conservative who chairs the Police and Crime Committee, has renewed ...

Community category • 2025-08-12 19:26

Cycling Mikey returns to scene and blocks motorists amid debate over vigilante road safety

The man known online as Cycling Mikey returned to the west London road where a recent confrontation ...

Community category • 2025-08-12 19:25

City Hall Tories urge GLA to take control of Notting Hill Carnival amid safety fears

A report produced by City Hall Conservatives, titled On The Brink: Notting Hill Carnival, has propos...

Community category • 2025-08-12 11:45

Oxford Street returns to nightly encampments as more than 40 people bed down outside flagship shops

More than 40 people were seen bedding down on Oxford Street in central London in recent weeks, under...

Community category • 2025-08-12 03:41

Khan accused of cherry-picking Met stats as omitted figures show rises in gun crime and shoplifting

London’s mayor has found himself at the centre of a fresh row over how crime data is presented after...

Community category • 2025-08-11 20:21

Notting Hill Carnival 2025 highlights Alvaro Barrington art commission as ticketed Panorama returns

The Notting Hill Carnival returns to west London in late August 2025, promising two days of Caribbea...

Community category • 2025-08-11 20:18

Disabled-led Liberty festival to put accessibility at heart of Wandsworth arts week

Liberty, a disabled‑led arts festival produced with CRIPtic Arts, will take place across Wandsworth ...

Community category • 2025-08-11 20:18

Massive 36-inch water main bursts in Islington, forcing dozens to evacuate

A major burst water main in Islington forced dozens of residents from their homes and left several s...

Community category • 2025-08-11 10:05

Major 36-inch water main ruptures in Canonbury, flooding streets and displacing residents

A major burst water main in Canonbury, Islington, sent water pouring into several streets on the eve...

Community category • 2025-08-11 10:03

TfL to raise congestion charge to £18 and cut EV discounts, unions warn of toll on couriers

Transport for London has proposed a significant overhaul of the central London Congestion Charge tha...

Community category • 2025-08-11 10:00

Tidal Thames clean-up lifts 180 tonnes of 'wet-wipe island', revealing scale of flushed plastics

A major clean-up of the tidal Thames near Hammersmith Bridge has exposed the scale of a largely invi...

Community category • 2025-08-11 00:35

Man grabbed by throat as family march for hostages is disrupted near Downing Street

Scuffles erupted near Downing Street on Sunday as thousands marching to demand the release of Israel...

Community category • 2025-08-10 17:28

Wally Houser, the solicitor who helped keep Ronnie Scott's alive, dies aged 90

Wally Houser, who has died aged 90, played a quietly pivotal role in British jazz: a practising soli...

Community category • 2025-08-10 17:27

Dumplings bridge divides on child benefits but not on immigration

They arrived as strangers with a byline: a Guardian experiment pairing people from different parts o...

Community category • 2025-08-10 13:35

Raffles Chelsea basement plan sparks licensing fight and threatens Sukies on King's Road

Sukies, the last independent shoe shop on King’s Road, says it may be forced to close after Raffles ...

Community category • 2025-08-10 10:37

Tower Hamlets joins ROMULUS digital reuse marketplace to divert reusable building materials from waste

According to the original BBC report, Tower Hamlets Council has signed up to expand a pilot that reu...