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Labour council pushes back against Sadiq Khan's green belt housing plan
Barnet has been tasked with provisionally building almost 33,000 homes in the next decade, including 7,000 on green belt land
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Map shows areas of UK where people are most likely to die before 60
Blackpool has the highest proportion of residents dying before age 60 (Picture: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images) Brits have been warned they face a shorter life based on where they live after new figures revealed which areas see the most people die before age 60. People in Blackpool ar...
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Criminals in London hospitals face benefits ban under new government rules
The move follows years of campaigning by victims’ families who have called for an end to the so-called ‘double provision’ loophole
London drivers to get new rights to challenge unfair parking fines
Maximum parking charges will be frozen at £100 under the new code of practice
Man arrested after three Jewish women report being assaulted in north-east London
Police were called to Upper Clapton Road in Stamford Hill in Hackney just before 2pm on Monday
Oxford Street window takeover: Selfridges launches search for London's next creative stars
Applications for the Creative Open Call will close at midnight on October 23
British woman who ‘went to US to be killed by man from fetish site was groomed’ say family
Sonia Exelby, from Portsmouth, was discovered dead in a shallow grave in Florida (Picture: Family Handout/PA Wire) A British woman who is believed to have travelled to the US to be killed may have been groomed, her family claim. The death of Sonia Exelby, 32, has left her family in the...
Trial date set for man accused of stabbing mother as she slept in her London home
Daniel Sean James, 46, is charged with the murder of 24-year-old Kirandeep Kaur and is currently being held in custody
Rising from the ashes: Stalls reopen at 800-year-old London market place destroyed by massive fire
First stalls reopen a fortnight after flames swept through the historic market
London transport users face £100 fines for blasting out music - but minister admits no 'bus police' to enforce
People who play music out loud on buses could face £100 fines in a crackdown on antisocial behaviour
Eagle-eyed Met officer praised after hunting south London burglar with one-word clue
PC Max Kelly trawled through police records to find the burglar in the doorbell footage
Lime issues warning after 'knights' joust on rental bikes in London park
The east London spectacle saw two knights go head-to-head on rental bikes
Survivors bitten by sharks and 11 missing after boat capsizes off Mexico coast
People were pulled from shark-infested waters, but 11 remain missing (Picture: Getty Images) Dozens of people were left in shark-infested waters after a boat capsized off the Mexican coast. A boat carrying 27 people got into trouble in the middle of the ocean off the Baja California co...
Uber claims victory in £340m legal battle with London black cab drivers
A High Court judge ruled the cases were brought too late and dismissed them without considering whether allegations were true
Five of London's most haunted places to visit this Halloween
London is brimming with spooky stories about phantoms and supernatural incidents
Man who flew to Somalia after speaking with Islamic State AI chatbot jailed
Security guard Mohamed Mohamoud was arrested in January (Picture: Counter Terrorism Policing South East/the Press Association) A man who planned to become a ‘martyr’ for Islamic State after speaking to the terror group’s AI chatbot has been jailed for 12 years. Mohamed Mohamoud, f...
Flight from Israel makes emergency landing over ‘bomb threat’
A warplane escorted an Austrian Airlines flight from Tel Aviv after a mid-air emergency was declared (file image) (Picture: NurPhoto/Getty Images) A passenger plane from Israel was escorted by a fighter jet during an emergency landing after suspected bomb threat. An Austrian Airlines f...
London boroughs named among very best and worst places in England to grow up - how does your area fare?
One London borough is the second worst place in England to grow up while three are in the top 10 best, according to a new report by the children’s commissioner