The Latest Breaking News from Battersea

After decades in darkness, one of London’s most famous buildings reopens today as a multi-purpose mecca set to reinvigorate SW8. David Ellis takes a first look

Battersea Power Station spent decades in disrepair before a renovation process finally began on the iconic London landmark, and now it's finally set to open to the public

The new film Mrs Harris Goes to Paris is based on a 1958 novel by the American writer Paul Gallico: no British novelist could romanticise the class system quite so wackily. It is about the adventures of a Battersea char who, heartbroken by the death of her husband, saves up…

Brief letters: Crab apple jelly | Brain surgery pioneers | Battersea’s smoke | Possessive pronouns | Teacher’s puzzling English | Putrid pies

Wilkinson Eyre’s restrained conversion of the London landmark embraces the bravura of the original design, while the new flats aren’t so successful

Its rooftop ‘villas’ are £8m, its shops include Rolex and Cartier – and its affordable housing figure is just 9%. We go inside the £9bn, no-expense-spared rebirth of London’s famous landmark

Apple is among tenants moving into renovated building

Begun in 1929, the building was a collaboration between architects Theo Halliday and Sir Giles Gilbert Scott

Europe’s biggest brick building has 254 apartments, as well as restaurants, bars, offices and shops