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Flagship London council signs off 'borough of sanctuary' for asylum seekers plan

Westminster has the highest rate of international migration in England, with more than 20,000 residents arriving over the past two years

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Millionaire neighbours vent anger over Liz Truss’s £500k private members club in MI5’s former Mayfair offices

The ex-Prime Minister described the new club as ‘a strategic nexus for a global network of pro-growth leaders’

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Labour 'ally' of Sadiq Khan drops bombshell at Oxford Street quango launch: 'I wish this didn't exist'

‘We would rather this body didn’t exist and we weren’t here’ says Westminster council leader

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Detective dog Doris sniffs out £10k haul of illegal cigarettes and food in raids on American-style candy shops

Westminster Council has employed a dog detective to sniff out illegal goods in the latest crackdown on American-style candy stores

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£250,000 Rolls Royce hauled off Mayfair street in crackdown on illegally parked supercars

The Saudi-registered supercar was towed after Westminster Council admitted the usual practice of issuing £160 fines was not deterring rich visitors from parking badly

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Rolls-Royce towed in crackdown on ‘illegal parking’ outside five-star hotel

’The owners of the vehicles are so wealthy that fines barely register’

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Revealed: 'Unofficial' zebra crossings are putting brakes on selfish London drivers

All London boroughs urged to adopt Westminster council initiative and drive down number of road casualties

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Cannabis cookies among £9,000-worth of illegal goods seized from American candy shop in central London

The 26 tubs of CBD-laced biscuits in four different flavours were brazenly stacked on shelves in the shop in Piccadilly Circus

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Black Friday fakes: The scam sites ripping off shoppers by 'cybersquatting' prestigious London addresses

Central London tenants bombarded with unwanted parcels, angry letters and aggrieved consumers knocking at their door after sites selling fake designer goods used their addresses as a front

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Defence Secretary John Healey underpaid tax on second home after council ‘error’

Mr Healey underpaid around £1,500 in tax after an “administrative error” by the local authority, Westminster Council

The Independent UK

Popular Notting Hill restaurant 'hired illegal worker to avoid taxes and pay'

Immigration enforcement officers raided Sadaf, in Westbourne Grove, following a ‘tip off’

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Tory crisis in London as second councillor defects to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK at flagship town hall

Alan Mendoza on Wednesday joined Laila Cunningham as Reform’s second representative on Westminster Council

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Leaseholder fury at £100k bills for new windows during major works beset by delays

Westminster City Council is consulting on refurbishing the final five tower blocks on the Hallfield Estate in Bayswater

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£100 on-the-spot fines for Lime and Forest in new crackdown on e-bikes abandoned on pavements

EXCLUSIVE: Westminster council opens new front in battle against pavement clutter by emailing fixed penalty tickets direct to e-bike firms

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People living near Walker’s of Whitehall claim their lives could be ‘endangered’ by ‘intimidating’ and ‘intoxicated’ customers

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Row breaks out over £1.5million cycle lane that would be alternative to blocked-off Oxford Street

Tory councillors want Westminster council to pause cycleway through Marylebone until impact of mayor’s traffic ban becomes clear

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Haul of 'mystery meat' that posed virus risk seized in London's China Town

More than 300kg of suspect meat and dozens of packets of banned Chinese pork noodles have been confiscated by inspectors

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Illegal erectile dysfunction drugs and antidepressants sold in West End souvenir shops

Sachets and blister packs of imported sex drug Kamagra were seized by Westminster Council during visits to four shops

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London Trocadero to be transformed into two-storey casino and restaurant

Planning permission was granted by officers at Westminster Council on September 30, subject to conditions

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Masala Zone: Soho restaurant hit with a 0 out of 5 hygiene rating by council

The owner said all teams are working incredibly hard to rectify the situation

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Dozens of dangerous fake Labubus seized in London raids

The counterfeit dolls were found to be death traps for toddlers – with eyes that pop out and feet that fall off, posing a serious choking hazard

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Flagship London council hires own police officers for the first time to tackle crime

Nine Met officers will join Westminster town hall’s new Police and Council Tasking Team (PACT)

The Independent UK

‘Mind the grab’: Oxford Street shop paints phone theft warnings onto street

Last year, a phone was stolen every 15 minutes - or 94 a day

The Independent UK

Inside the battle to save award-winning building now crumbling from neglect

Residents of a social housing estate in Pimlico say Labour-run Westminster Council treats them like the ‘enemy’

Evening Standard

Soho Society left with £27,000 bill after failed challenge to Mayfair gin distillery

The Soho Society insisted it will survive despite a £27,500 legal bill

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