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Cycling campaigners accuse Westminster of not fulfilling promise to create more bike lanes

Westminster Cycling Campaign, a subset of the larger London Cycling Campaign group, accused the Labour administration as being ‘indistinguishable’ from the previous Tory leadership.

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Falling pupil numbers in Westminster Primary schools is financial red flag

As is being seen across much of London, the level of surplus capacity in the City’s primary schools is increasing, having reached 25.9 per cent in January this year. This is up from 24.1 per cent in 2023, and 23.1 per cent in 2022.

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Surrey police support officer 'stabbed herself to get compensation'

She is in court accused of fraud

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Demolition needed to create new retail and office space at One Victoria

One Victoria Street, which council officers described as ‘of limited architectural value’, was vacated in January this year after the Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy moved out.

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Britain’s first female neurosurgeon commemorated with blue plaque

The English Heritage plaque dedicated to Diana Beck was unveiled yesterday.

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Wannabe boy racers fined for reckless tricks caught on camera near Buckingham Palace

Cars at the meet-up included a highly tuned BMW Coupe and a Mercedes C63 AMG worth almost £100,000.

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Residential street in Maida Vale is scene of another chilling gunshot killing

Police were called shortly after 11pm last night following reports of shots being fired in Bravington Road, Maida Vale. Officers and the London Ambulance Service attended and found a man, aged in his 20s, suffering from gunshot injuries.

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Law change allowing Holocaust memorial to be built in Central London is passed as Cameron defends location

It's been three years since planning permission was given for the national memorial, but a decades-old law was preventing it from being built

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Parliament Square 'nasty crash' between lorry and cyclist puts woman in hospital

The lorry driver stopped at the scene of the crash, with an air ambulance landing so specialist paramedics could help the woman

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Urgent appeal to find 11-year-old boy missing for 2 days from Hayes home

*UPDATE* Ibrahim has now been found

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TfL given go-ahead to begin clearing Park Lane’s ‘island encampment’

Describing the spot in the middle of the dual carriageway as ‘not a safe place for people to sleep rough’, the transport body had its possession order request approved at a hearing in the Central London County Court on Friday.

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Met Police officer, 37, charged with child sex offences

He is accused of sexual assault by touching of a child under 13 and six counts of arranging or facilitating the commission of a child sex offence

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From pub to grub : Derelict pub targeted by Sainsbury’s as potential new store

The Shirland Road premises had a licence to operate as The Chippenham until November 2020, when it was suspended due to ‘non-payment of annual fees’.

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New map shows the London boroughs where the most internet trolling is reported

One South London borough had more than 7,800 reports made

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Ex-Met Police officer charged with multiple sexual offences against woman he met while on duty

It is claimed the officer knew the woman was 'in a vulnerable position'

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‘Upskirter’ jailed after targeting women in British Museum

Officers are asking women who think they may also have been a victim to come forward so they can offer help and support.

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CCTV footage released as police seek leads in West End rape

Between 9pm and 11.30pm on Tuesday, December 19 last year, a woman was walking near Tottenham Court Road Underground Station, when an unknown man picked her up in a car.

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New food hygiene ratings for nearly 100 South London restaurants and takeaways

It was pretty good news for most of the establishments inspected in boroughs including Croydon, Sutton, Greenwich, Richmond and Wandsworth

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CCTV footage released after woman picked up in car on Tottenham Court Road and raped in Covent Garden

The woman was picked up by an unknown man in a car then taken to a nearby street and raped

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Top chef dies 5 days after Notting Hill Carnival attack that left him unconscious in the street

Mussie Imnetu has worked for the likes of Gordon Ramsay, Alain Ducasse and Marcus Wareing