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Harlesden: Rogue landlord fined £9k after ignoring pleas to fix north London flat

Brent Council take Kevin McLoughlin to court over flat issues

Evening Standard

Leonard Johnson obituary

Other lives: Brent youth leader and driving force behind Bridge Park, one of the largest black community projects in Europe

The Guardian - UK

Kilburn sinkhole: More than 100 people evacuated over gas leak and burst water main

Residents were given shelter in a nearby church after a 24-inch gas main ruptured and a sinkhole opened up

Evening Standard

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Landlord who packed 40 tenants in four-bed Wembley home given first ever Brent Council banning order

He was fined five years ago after council officers found dozens of people crammed into an unsafe four-bedroom home

Evening Standard

Disabled woman left trapped in upstairs council flat with no lift for four years

Brent Council was forced to pay the woman, referred to as ‘Miss X’, £9,200 after the Local Government Ombudsman (LGO) investigated her complaint

Daily Mirror

Fury as council clerical error sends residents’ cleaning bills soaring

People living on Brent council’s housing estates were landed with what they felt was an unaffordable increase in charges

The Guardian - UK

Thousands of households can apply for FREE help worth up to £1,000 to pay bills

The money can be used to cover things like rent and council tax arrears, white goods, counselling and mental health services, internet access and laptops, energy and water essentials and debts

Daily Mirror

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London builds TWICE as many council homes as rest of England as Sadiq Khan blasts Tories

Sadiq Khan is demanding ministers raise their ambitions as it emerged construction started on 10,000 council homes in the capital last year, compared to just 4,325 across the rest of England in the previous year

Daily Mirror

New chief executive of Sefton Council announced

A new chief executive has been appointed after current council head Dwayne Johnson announced his retirement earlier this year

Liverpool Echo

Dangerous levels of damp and mould reported in hundreds of privately rented homes across London

Research reveals the huge volume of complaints made to London councils over the presence of damp and mould in rented homes

Evening Standard

Slash: My stories of Keith Moon, Ozzy Osbourne, Lemmy and more

Slash met Keith Moon when he was 11, spent a long night with Lemmy in a Soho boozer, and had an unlikely on-stage encounter with James Brown. These are his stories

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Family trapped in 'damp and mouldy' home as mum 'contracts pneumonia three times'

Mum-of-four, who is on the homeless register after being evicted, says her chest is 'a mess' because of living in a damp council flat, and her youngest child has repeatedly needed antibiotics

Daily Mirror

Woman forced to pay £65 after parking on 'invisible' yellow lines

"I just feel it's very unfair. I was being honest, I wasn’t trying to cheat"

Wales Online

FA could install perimeter fencing at Wembley after Euro 2020 final chaos

A review conducted by Baroness Casey last year found there were more than 20 ‘near-misses’ which could have resulted in serious injury or death

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The Independent UK

FA applies to install gated perimeter fencing at Wembley after Euro final chaos

Ticketless individuals were blamed for creating the risk of a loss of life at the England v Italy clash.

Evening Standard

FA backs plan for Wembley to install new gated fence to improve security after Euro 2020 disorder

Wembley Stadium plans to install a new gated fence to beef up security around the venue following violent disorder at the Euro 2020 final.

Daily Mirror

Mum says son is 'struggling to breathe' in flat that's 'covered in so much black mould'

Mum-of-three Aisha Hussain said she worries for her children, with one the same age as Awaab Ishak, two, who died in December 2020 due to prolonged exposure to mould

Wales Online

Mum paying thousands of pounds for flat that is so mouldy her son 'struggles to breathe'

Aisha Hussain says thick black mould has formed in the living room and bedroom walls in the flat she shares with her three children

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The Independent UK

Distraught mother says son ‘struggling to breathe’ in mould-ridden council flat

Aisha Hussain, 31, says the thick black mould on her living room and bedroom walls has seen the health of her eldest child, Justin, 16, deteriorate

Evening Standard

Brent: Plans for 1,800 homes and college across Wembley and Dollis Hill

Plans are set to go on show next year for a development that could modernise north west London

Daily Mirror

Dad confused as council starts building house in garden he's used for 20 years

Marcus Jeanton, from Wembley, north-west London, has been battling Brent Council for months after it announced plans to build a home on a garden area he was told in 2009 belonged to his property

Wales Online

Dad's confusion as council starts building house in garden he's used for 20 years

Marcus Jeanton has since been told that he's 'trespassing' on the land he's been using since 2002

Wales Online

Dad to lose garden as council says they're going to build on it

Marcus has lived in the property since 2002 and believes the land is his, but the council plans to build a house on it

Wales Online

Man signs up to £1k per month flat to find it's 'a room with toilet and a wardrobe'

He said he had been left feeling 'lied to and depressed'

The Conversation

The school Cat Stevens built: how Conservative politicians opposed funding for Muslim schools in England

When Yusuf Islam – the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens – had his first child, he wrote her a song. Her name was Hasanah and the song was a kind of ABC of the Muslim faith:

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