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'I was a builder turned Premier League striker - I know dads need better help with a newborn baby'
Campaigners have highlighted how little statutory paternity leave is available to UK dads
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Londoner left living with a boarded-up window for 9 months by council gets £2,500 compensation
The tenant had been reporting issues with his window as far back as 2020
London restaurant owner slapped with £45k fine for hiring illegal worker pleads to keep licence
Immigration enforcement officers found that an illegal worker was employed at Sadaf Restaurant in Bayswater, Westminster
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Bakery fined nearly £35,000 after evidence of mouse infestation found at flagship branch in Haymarket
A bakery has been fined more than £34k after mouse droppings were found in the kitchen of its flagship location. Ole and Steen, which operates more than 20 cafes across London, was found to have serious hygiene failings at its Haymarket branch. Inspectors found evidence of a vermin infestation duri...
London GP surgery had no defibrillator pads for kids and oxygen cylinders out of date
St Johns Wood Medical Practice in Westminster dropped from a rating of Good to Requires Improvement after a CQC inspection
Controversial Pimlico heat network plans will be 'thoroughly reviewed' for 3,000 homes
Campaign group Pimlico Unites say the council must include them in any future consultations on plans for the PDHU
Protester who climbed Big Ben cost taxpayers £67,000, court hears
TfL also lost an estimated £25,000 in bus fares as diversions were put in place
Live data to be used to remove carelessly parked dockless bikes
Real-time information will be used to clear pavements of discarded dockless rental bikes, the council has announced. A new deal struck between Westminster City Council and operator Lime Bikes will allow the local authority to track abandoned cycles in key hotspots. The ‘hour-by-hour’ data collec...
Man who climbed Big Ben and stayed for 15 hours cost taxpayers £67,000, court hears
A pro-Palestinian protester is alleged to have caused severe gridlock and triggered a massive security review after scaling central London’s iconic Big Ben tower barefoot and refusing to come down for over 15 hours
Westminster Conservatives accused of 'astounding hypocrisy' over councillor allowances
Councillor Paul Swaddle, who now leads the council, had repeatedly called out the pay increases brought in under Labour
More than £300k of fake designer wear including Louis Vuitton seized from West End shops
Officials have seized more than £300k of fake designer clothes from West End stores in the last year. Among household brands pirated by unscrupulous traders included Louis Vuitton and Chanel. Other counterfeit goods shown to have been removed from shelves appeared to mimic clothes from Canada Goose...
Central London short-term lets 'out of control' with 2,700 suspected as unlawful
It is estimated that there are over 13,000 short-term rentals in the City of Westminster
Man, 20, fighting for his life in hospital after stabbing in Pimlico
A young man is in hospital fighting for his life after being stabbed near Pimlico tube station. Officers were called to Lupus Street to reports a 20-year-old man had been assaulted at 12.06am. The victim was taken to hospital with stab injuries, where he remains in a critical condition. Enquiries re...
Sadiq Khan brands Soho Society decision to oppose all licences as ‘bad for London’
Sadiq Khan has said he will use powers to protect the night-time economy after an amenity society vowed to oppose new all licensing applications in Soho. Members of the Soho Society voted at its AGM last week to object to applications from both new bars and restaurants as well as those wishing to re...
Pro-Trump influencer Melissa Rein Lively admits pulling woman’s hair in Tube station assault
Her partner, German national Philipp Ostermann, 37, pleaded not guilty to three public order offences - two of them racially aggravated
Tories accused of 'U-turn' on Oxford Street pedestrianisation plans
Plans to make the busy London through road vehicle-free were pushed through by Sadiq Khan under the previous Labour-run Westminster Council
Murder investigation launched after man fatally stabbed in Kilburn
A man in his 20s was stabbed to death in a large altercation in Kilburn last night. Emergency services were called to a fight on Ashmore Road in W9 at 7.45pm on Tuesday. Both police and paramedics attended the scene, where a man in his 20s was treated for stab wounds. He was confirmed dead […] The...
Huge new Gail's opening in Westminster this summer
The bakery will accommodate 74 seats inside and 25 outside and is opening this summer
'I tried the UK's most expensive jacket potato in London restaurant and price floored me'
Many Brits love a classic jacket potato, but one food enthusiast wanted to find the priciest one in the UK, which was available at a Michelin star restaurant in central London
Local election results in full: Conservatives regain Westminster Council
Conservatives have retaken control of Westminster Council from Labour in a dramatic local election result. Tories took a total of 32 seats out of 54, making gains in Bayswater, West End and Lancaster Gate wards, while support for Labour declined mirroring other results across the capital. While Labo...