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Tube workers back pre-Christmas strikes over pay

Commuters on the London Undergound face pre-Christmas disruption after engineering and electrical workers voted for industrial action in a row over pay  Comments 
David Cameron and Gordon Brown

Brown and Cameron join beauty pageant to woo business leaders

Britain's three main party leaders today staged a beauty pageant to woo business support ahead of the General Election  Comments 

Parliament

MPs and Peers referred to CPS over expenses

Video: Police investigating allegations of expenses fraud in Parliament referred four MPs and peers to the Crown Prosecution Service  Comments 

Claire Howarth

Pc killed lover and faked crash just days before their wedding

Policeman jailed for life for murdering his fiancée - also a constable - by smashing her head with a hammer then staging a fake car crash to cover it up days before their Caribbean wedding  Comments 

Ben Fogle

Flesh-eating bug danger for tourists

Popularity of eco-tourism is to blame for a big rise in people contracting tropical diseases, a London professor warned  Comments 


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Travel revolution: Oyster rail will cut fares by 30%

Some fares could fall by more than a third when Oyster is extended to every national rail station in London, it has emerged  Comments 

Lenny Henry and Dawn French

It’s a Royal flush at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards

The Royal Court turned cutting-edge drama into establishment success as it swept the board at the 55th London Evening Standard Theatre Awards  Comments 

Geeta Aulakh with her husband Harpreet

We’re living a nightmare say severed hand family

Family of a young mother left to die in the street with her hand cut off say they are living in a 'nightmare'

General Andrew Stewart

US military chiefs ‘like Martians’ to our troops in Iraq

Deep splits between British and American military chiefs were laid bare before the Iraq war inquiry hears claims that Tony Blair failed to prepare troops for the aftermath of the invasion  Comments 

Jordan Wimmer

City boss 'sent jobseeker vile sexually explicit email in Latin'

A hedge fund boss being sued for £4 million by a female employee sent a sexually explicit email in Latin to a young woman looking for work, a tribunal heard

Anti-BNP protesters outside the BBC

The £143,000 bill to protect BNP leader on Question Time

Taxpayers have been handed a £143,000 bill for protecting BNP leader Nick Griffin during his appearance on Question Time, it has emerged  Comments 


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Dr Clive Debenham and Simon Darfoor

Harley Street dentist closes after six months with £4.5million debt

Leading London cosmetic dentist has gone bust owing millions of pounds after moving into one of the most prestigious addresses in Harley Street.  Comments 

Olympic Park

Latest view of games site as inspectors prepare to check on progress

Here is the latest view of the 600-hectare Olympic Park - ready for a key inspection by international Games chiefs this week  Comments 

Met chief tells of her rise 90 years on from the first women recruits

One of England's most senior policewomen tells of her battle with sexism, as the Met marks 90 years since the first female officers were admitted to the force  Comments 

She can fix it: Sarah the builder is in top 10

Former Savile Row manager who followed her dream of a career in construction is the first woman builder to be ranked among Britain's 10 best tradespeople  Comments 

London takes on Edinburgh in fringe festival fixture clash

London is laying down the artistic gauntlet to Edinburgh and launching its own city-wide fringe festival next August  Comments 

Steven Barker and Baby P

Baby P killer challenges rape conviction of two-year-old girl

One of the trio jailed over the death of Baby Peter is challenging his conviction for the rape of a two-year-old girl at the Court of Appeal

Whitewater Bridge in Backbarrow

Claims for flood damage soar to £100million

Video: Insurance claims for damage caused by the floods have reached £100million, it was estimated  Comments 

Suzanne and Cameron Poole

Orchestra's finance boss 'siphoned off £560,000'

Financial director of the publicly-funded London Philharmonic Orchestra faces claims that he took £560,000 to fund an extravagant lifestyle  Comments 

Bob Crow

Rail union boss to appear on Have I Got News For You

Railway workers' leader Bob Crow is to become the first ever trade union official to appear on TV's Have I Got News For You, it was announced  Comments 

Camden high street

Camden plays it safe with £1.5m facelift

Camden High Street is to get a radical overhaul to make visitors and residents safer  Comments 

Sarah Lindsay

Skater switches from blades to bike for 2012

Speed skater Sarah Lindsay is to swap her blades for a bike in a bid for Olympic glory in her home city in 2012  Comments 

Harriet Harman

Tories vow to stop Harman closing early for Christmas

Conservatives sought to stop Harriet Harman closing the Commons early for Christmas  Comments 

Michael McCarthy

First picture of teenager run over after being stabbed

First picture: This is the teenager who was stabbed and then run over in Stoke Newington  Comments 

Jean Charles de Menezes

De Menezes compensation 'cut because his family is poor'

Family of Jean Charles de Menezes are set to receive a reduced compensation package from Scotland Yard because they are so poor, according to reports  Comments 

Mohinder Singh Pujji

Spitfire is not BNP's to use, says Sikh pilot who fought the Nazis

One of the last surviving Indian Second World War fighter pilots has launched an attack on the BNP after it used images of a Spitfire in its campaign  Comments 

Quick Reads

Governors of funding fiasco 'should resign'

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Footballer fined for drink-driving

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Man to be sentenced for killing flatmate

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Fury at academy consultants' £1m fees

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Peter Mandelson

Mandelson back in his old role as election mastermind

Lord Mandelson has started masterminding Labour's election campaign with six months until the expected polling day, according to reports  Comments 

Troops in Afghanistan

MoD spends £149m on tanks unfit for Afghanistan

Ministry of Defence spent £149 million on an "urgent" upgrade to 900 tanks that are now only being used in training exercises, it was revealed  Comments 

giant Ocado warehouse

Ocado's army gears up for Christmas

Inside a 21-acre warehouse on the outskirts of the capital, a small army is preparing for Christmas. The building, in Hatfield, is home to Ocado  Comments 

Francis Bacon

The sado-masochistic relationships that drove Bacon to create his best works

Francis Bacon was once thrown through a plate-glass window by an enraged lover, damaging his face so badly that his right eye had to be sewn back into place, according to a biographer  Comments 

Ann and Alan Keen

Now Mr & Mrs Expenses face question over £12,000 office

London's 'Mr and Mrs Expenses' are facing new questions for allegedly claiming more than £12,000 for an office at their home  Comments 

Tosin Cole

Friends, mandem, lend me your ears ... actors stage Julius Caesar in street slang

Group of young actors have re-invented Julius Caesar as a cautionary tale of violence in urban London - with Shakespeare's script partly rewritten in street language  Comments 


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