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Councils in England face ‘impossible decisions’ to build or repair homes

Exclusive: Financial pressures undermining government’s housebuilding targets, survey of local authorities says

The Guardian - UK

Council wants to seize homes empty for over six months as thousands in central London revealed to be unoccupied

Westminster council wants the power to seize empty properties after discovering some homes in the borough have not been lived in for 20 years

Evening Standard

Sadiq Khan says he wants to take control of Oxford Street because council has 'failed' the area

Mayor wants to part-pedestrianise the ‘tired’ street and doesn’t want Labour-run authority to be ‘obstacle to progress’

Evening Standard

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Litter found in 90% of surveyed spots as campaigners call for national strategy

Keep Britain Tidy surveyed hundreds of miles of rural and urban sites to gain insight into the level and type of litter found across England.

Evening Standard

'We must make a stand': Roving team of council officers to crackdown on yob behaviour in Westminster

Westminster council leader Adam Hug said the new unit will ‘hold to account those who do not respect our city’

Evening Standard

‘Everything is destroyed, nothing could be saved:’ anger and despair in communities devastated by North West floods

After flood defences failed yet again, heartbroken residents of Merseyside and Cheshire now face a painful clean-up and possible financial ruin.

The Guardian - UK

British Red Cross warns more investment needed to prepare UK for future floods

The charity deployed crisis response teams following Storm Bert and Storm Darragh in the past few weeks.

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Red Cross calls for more investment to prepare UK for floods

Charity deployed crisis response teams following Bert and Darragh storms

The Independent UK

Reappearing pothole scourge on local roads revealed in new figures

The AA called for an end to the ‘vicious cycle’ of potholes being patched up only to reappear

The Independent UK

Pothole compensation claims double in a year

RAC research found 20,432 claims were submitted to 18 local authorities with the largest road networks in 2023, compared with 8,327 in 2022.

The Independent UK

Housing, tax rises, train fares and pub pints: What Rachel Reeves' Budget means for Londoners

There was good news for London transport, with the Chancellor committing £485million for TfL’s capital renewals programme and confirming HS2 will go to Euston

Evening Standard

'Pedestrianised Oxford Street would be terror target', council warns Sadiq Khan

Westminster Council is furious that the London Mayor Sadiq Khan has announced rival plans to get rid of cars from the famous shopping street

Evening Standard

'It's too much' say residents at London mansion block hosting more tourists than Ritz

More than 100 of the 530 flats at Park West in Westminster are suspected to be listed on short term letting websites

Evening Standard

London's Airbnb Wild West: Party pads and 'brothels' uncovered by probes into holiday lets

Capital ‘hollowed out’ by short-term lets eroding the private rental market

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Evening Standard

Oxford Street 2.0: How £1bn investment will transform candy store blight back into premier shopping destination

Last year one retail boss branded Oxford Street a ‘national embarrassment’ because of the large number of empty premises

Evening Standard

Warning unscrupulous landlords could use a loophole to avoid Airbnb-style short term lets crackdown

The Chancellor has announced tax perks for second home owners who rent out properties as holiday lets will be abolished

International Business Times UK

UK Orders Crack Down On 'Dirty Money' And 'Counterfeit Goods' Coming From London's American-Style Candy Shops

Police have seized more than 2,000 unlawful items from an American sweet shop in London, including fake designer products and vapes containing illegal amounts of nicotine.

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s like a jungle’: London’s pedicab cyclists welcome licences but not price controls

Regulations for carriages, which have been accused of ripping off tourists, announced in king’s speech

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Evening Standard

Westminster demands laws to end 'patchwork quilt of chaos' from abandoned e-bikes and e-scooters

Westminster council’s leader Adam Hug has written to Transport Secretary Mark Harper pleading for legislation allowing dockless e-bikes and e-scooters to be included in the King’s Speech

Evening Standard

Oxford Street ‘curse’ appears to be lifting as American candy store numbers fall

The proliferation of the tacky ‘American-style’ shops has been seen as symbolic of the street’s decline

The Guardian - UK

Home Office backs down on plan for asylum seekers to sleep four to a room

Move follows protest by refugees who had been told they would be sharing small London hotel rooms

The Independent UK

Dozens of refugees ‘left on the streets’ in Westminster for two nights

The asylum seekers apparently refused to enter a hotel in which the Home Office asked them to sleep ‘four people per room’.

Evening Standard

Forty refugees in standoff with Home Office over cramped London hotel

Westminster Council leader Adam Hug has written to the Home Secretary demanding to know why the town hall was not informed the ‘vulnerable group’ had been moved to the borough

Evening Standard

Flt Sgt Peter Brown: Hundreds of mourners gather for funeral of hero WW2 pilot

Cousin of Peter Brown says his legacy will live on ‘in minds and hearts’ forever

The Independent UK

Mourners gather for funeral of black RAF pilot who flew in Second World War

The funeral of Flight Sergeant Peter Brown is being held at St Clement Danes Church.

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