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May 2025

Exclusive: London Fire Brigade rejects push to hire more women and minorities as 'unrealistic'
Plus: Khan calls for weed decriminalisation, Jenrick chases fare dodgers, and swingers descend on a stately home in south London
Inside London's helicopter wars: How the skies became a fast lane for the rich
Battersea residents are fed up with private helicopters — and a lack of accountability
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Revealed: Protected ancient woodland in London to become wedding venue
Plus: the battle for Brockwell Park, the Spy gets the Met in trouble, and the most embarrassing place to sit on a London bus
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Exclusive: Met Police snubs fundraising drive for London firearms officers backed by Nigel Farage
Plus: City Hall pushes for al fresco, the Tube goes dark, and the exact spot with the most robberies on Oxford Street
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Trump tariffs 'cancel' affordable housing scheme in north London
Plus: a Brockwell Park conspiracy, a Tube Girl takedown, and a Nicholas Cage look-a-like contest
A Paralympian, a rooftop bar and 1,200 objections: The fight to shape London Fields
Controversial plans come to Hackney's hippest neighbourhood
Exclusive: Protest threat over Hampstead Heath ladies' pond access
Plus: another Olympic bid, more fallout from the Toby Carvery oak felling, and spending five years building London in Minecraft

April 2025

Revealed: The admin error that may have cost London schools millions of pounds
Plus: boarding the Woolwich Ferry in protest, a boost for al fresco dining in London, and Eric Schmidt's £42m mansion in Holland Park
Exclusive: East London bureaucrat fired after 'allocating themselves council house'
Plus: Idris Elba for mayor, blowing up Hammersmith Bridge, and the Peckham pimp aesthetic
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The £47m secret deal upending an arts centre in north London
A backroom agreement over the iconic Hornsey Town Hall has reminded locals: they've lost control
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