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It’s the season of excess. But for people sleeping rough, the invisible homeless queueing for a hot shower and the children who don’t have enough space to learn to walk, StreetSmart is a lifeline. Hannah Twiggs meets head of comms Kimberley Coke to hear how one small pound on the…

Isaiah Ishmael Idris, 17, attacked at Pontoon Dock DLR station in east London

Bengali signs at Whitechapel Station have ignited online debate over multiculturalism, identity, and representation in modern London amid rising tensions over cultural integration.

Trials delayed for five years, victims and defendants’ lives in limbo, courthouses without running water. Courts correspondent Tristan Kirk reports on a shameful decline

IN FOCUS : The brand is back British high streets with three stores opening in London and more to follow – and this time it’s targeting the TikTok generation, writes Lydia Spencer-Elliott

Rahmat Khan Mohammadi and Mohammed Bilal Hotak would arrange to meet their victims over Grindr before stealing phones from their homes

A developer has asked Bromley Council how much information it needs to provide to submit complete proposals for 650 homes

March NY world sugar #11 (SBH26 ) on Wednesday closed down -0.11 (-0.77%), and December London ICE white sugar #5 (SWZ25 ) closed down -0.70 (-0.17%). Sugar prices retreated on Wednesday, with NY sugar posting a 5-year nearest-futures low. Signs of a larger sugar crop in India, the world's second-largest...

December ICE NY cocoa (CCZ25 ) on Wednesday closed down -204 (-3.09%), and December ICE London cocoa #7 (CAZ25 ) closed down -189 (-3.97%). Cocoa prices fell sharply on Wednesday amid expectations of a bumper cocoa crop in West Africa. Reports from Ivory Coast cocoa farmers stated that cocoa trees...