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Haringey sent child to live with Heathrow bomb plotter

Exclusive: The council at the centre of the Baby P scandal sent a foster child to live with the ringleader of the airline bomb plotters

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Wife killer is already at work driving a minicab

The wife-killer allowed to take the Knowledge exam to become a black cabbie is already driving passengers on the streets of the capital

Wife killer set to become black cab driver cautioned for assault

A wife-killer who has been allowed to train as a London taxi driver was cautioned for assault less than three months ago, the Standard can reveal

Wife killer gets green light to drive black cab

Convicted killer and paranoid schizophrenic allowed to study 'the knowledge' to become black cab driver despite public safety fears

Greenwich Council decision is triumph of common sense over developers

Here are four words you don't much see, so make the most of them: God bless Greenwich Council

Paris is heading towards a driverless, strike-free and super-punctual metro. So why isn’t London interested?

Next year, the French capital’s equivalent of the Central line will be fully automated with no disruption to passengers

10 ways to avoid penalty fares on trains

Fines for not having the right ticket to travel are on the rise — but they are often not even legal. Andrew Gilligan reads you your rights

The propaganda newspapers

London's local newspapers are being squeezed out by a new breed of council freesheets. And it comes at a huge cost, says Andrew Gilligan

Come on Boris, show us what you're made of

Boris Johnson could be forgiven any annoyance at being attacked as a "do-little mayor" by Stephan Shakespeare, the man behind the pollster YouGov and the ConservativeHome website

Police interview Mayor's aides in expenses inquiry

Police question Boris Johnson's chief of staff, Sir Simon Milton, and his chief spin-doctor, Guto Harri, as part of their investigation into the Mayor's former deputy, Ian Clement

Auditor condemns Ken aide in City Hall funding scandal

Serving GLA officials and Ken  Livingstone’s former race adviser, Lee Jasper, are condemned in an official report by the district auditor into the City Hall scandal

Another deputy goes but Boris Johnson is still in trouble

The Mayor should not hope to diminish the Ian Clement scandal by announcing improvements to the Tube

15 TfL managers earn more than PM

The number of Transport for London managers earning more than £100,000 rose by a third in Boris Johnson's first year as Mayor, new figures out next week will show.

It may not achieve much — but Twitter is an act of faith

Its effectiveness in Iran is overrated but it is the belief in change that matters, and which is being spread online

Cuts can be made at the BBC so long as it's the managers

As a reporter for Channel 4's Dispatches, I make the kind of programmes which stand to gain from the "top-slicing" of the BBC licence fee proposed today. Yet until recently, I would have been aghast at the idea.

London MP claims public money for Labour party HQ

London MP caught in a new expenses row after Evening Standard investigation finds she has been using taxpayers' cash to fund her constituency party

Victorian Greenwich market faces being turned into a ‘Bluewater’ site

The charity which owns most of central Greenwich is seeking planning permission to demolish the town’s historic market and replace it with a “Bluewater-like” precinct

For sale: City runaround, one careful owner

How would Arthur Daley have shifted this lot? A set of London’s bendy buses are up for sale — the first step of Boris Johnson’s pledge to eradicate the “miserable, inhuman and socialistic” vehicles from the city

BNP threat at the polls is looking hollow

The backlash against the big parties is undeniable but it doesn't seem to be benefiting the BNP as much as you might think

Great Ormond Street ‘tried to hide Baby P failings with spin campaign’

Great Ormond Street Hospital has been accused of mounting a spin campaign to cover up its failings over Baby P

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