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Cabinet members are to get a 45 per cent pay rise while increasing rents for council tenants

The number of households lodging in hotels has risen 1,740 per cent over the past two years, confirmed Westminster Council

Kyiv Road is coming to London and we were at Trafalgar Square last night to hear the news. At a vigil arranged by the US Embassy and Westminster Council to mark the first anniversary of the Ukraine war, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace and actor Dame Helen Mirren, right, formed an…

The funding would be stretched over the next three years

A Soho strip club has had its licence suspended after ten customers claimed to have their drinks spiked only to wake up with thousands of pounds missing from their bank accounts.

Florence Heath said she was forced into debt and had no choice but to close

A noted historian died from a preventable bone infection after being exposed to “appalling” home care following a botched discharge from hospital, a coroner has found.

London’s last remaining gas lamps are a part of our city’s fabric — and were under threat until a few days ago. Tom Ellen meets the group who fought to save these beacons of history

Inspectors report hearing Whitney Houston and Bob Marley classics blaring after 9pm

The number of US-style sweet and souvenir shops blighting Oxford Street has dropped by nearly a third, according to Westminster Council. The local authority has accused some of the businesses of fleecing the taxpayer with £8m of tax evasion and of “lowering the tone” of the capital’s most famous shopping…

Westminster Council says some of the candy and souvenir shops have evaded up to £8m in business rates