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Heat rules will mean ‘extra six days off’ for Londoners
Plus: cash for car park homes, the closure of a proper Piccadilly dive, and the man who bought the wrong London bridge
1,000,000 faces scanned: Inside London's facial recognition surge
For police, it's the biggest breakthrough since DNA. But critics fear mission creep and a lack of oversight
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Attack of the Tube ads
Plus: a borough faces bankruptcy, dog contamination on Hampstead Heath, and the BBC’s glitched hurricane forecast for London
15-hour shifts on speed, strip club kickbacks: The last days of the pedicab wild west
To some, they've become the "scourge" of the West End. But is a coming crackdown on pedicabs about to go too far?
Goodbye forever to the London night czar?
Plus: victory for Euston haters, the return of Thames mudlarking, and charades on the Overground
Soho's dirty word
Inside the bitter battle to make Soho alfresco again
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September 2024

Just hours before the zombie knife ban, a stabbing in Woolwich
Plus: how the capital ranks on late-night venues, returning oysters to the Thames, and a simulation of a nuke hitting central London
The shop that's stuffed London pets for 40 years
“A squirrel would be around £200, depending on position and setting”
The resurrection of Oxford Street pedestrianisation
Plus: a Lime bike ultimatum, cancelling Buying London, and rating AI images of London buses
A Tube map of London house prices
By popular demand, we've made a house price version of our recent Tube rent map
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August 2024

Notting Hill carnival dragged into two-tier policing debate
Plus: the best GCSE results in London, controversy over an airport expansion plan, and a German warship on the Thames
Inside the fall of a London pub empire
Antic was meant to disrupt the capital’s mainstream pub chains. It’s now selling off close to half its estate. What went wrong?
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