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Police have appealed for information after a swan was shot dead with a pellet gun in the Thames in south-west London.

Arsenal star Emile Smith Rowe has started just once in the past season and a half – and could leave north London as a result

Maintenance engineers will walk out for five days from January 27 at sites in Doncaster, Bounds Green in London and Craigentinny in Scotland.

The Tory party lost its last seat on Richmond council on Friday, but defeated Labour in a bizarre by-election in Hackney

Ahead of new music and a major London gig next week, Gia Ford selects the soundtrack to our Friday night

In a move signalling an election campaign must be under way, Sadiq Khan has announced a freeze to most Tube and bus fares. The Mayor of London said that pay-as-you-go fares, which represent roughly 80 per cent of Tube journeys and nearly 75 per cent of bus journeys, will remain…

The decision by ‘Britain’s strictest head’ reflects a wider culture with a myopic view of what multiculturalism should look like, says teacher Nadeine Asbali

Parents advised to check vaccination status of children, with full uptake of MMR jab down to average of 85%

Akoko’s new, more casual, younger sibling is a West African trailblazer in its own right

The Turner prize-winner reconstructs the literal threads of colonial history, and a collaborative exhibition extends over 23 spaces across the capital – all in your weekly dispatch

Reflecting on London's art scene from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s ignites a rush of excitement for me, marked by the opening of Tate Modern, the captivating Louise Bourgeois installation at the Turbine Hall, the birth of Frieze Art Fair, the Saatchi Gallery in County Hall, and the emergence…