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London's sexiest places ... for illicit liaisons

04.12.11
ES Magazine uncovers the capital's sexiest places: The oldest wine bar in London and a Turkish bathhouse... more

Pubs must call time at 11 on Games visitors

24.10.11
Millions of sports fans will be unable to enjoy a late-night meal or a drink in London next summer after ministers ruled out allowing late-drinking licences. ... more

Half of arrested looters were unable to read or write by the age of 11

24.10.11
Thugs from 44 foreign countries have been jailed over widespread summer rioting, prison figures show... more

Katia is most successful Russian spy in 30 years, says top Soviet defector

24.10.11
A former KGB double agent claims 'honeytrap mistress' Katia Zatuliveter is the most successful Russian spy in the past 30 years... more

EU referendum risks dividing the Tories

24.10.11
As is clear in his piece for this newspaper, today's vote on an EU referendum is most unwelcome for David Cameron... more

US giant to launch internet TV

24.10.11
Viewers will soon have access to one of the world's biggest internet streaming services... more

Madonna is nervous about London Film Festival debut

24.10.11
Madonna admitted she was nervous as she brought her new film W.E. to the UK to be screened at the BFI London Film Festival... more

'You're making the city a shanty town'

24.10.11
Anti-capitalist protesters are urged to leave their two tent cities and accused of turning parts of London into a 'Third World shanty town'... more

Fuller's snaps up capital pubs

24.10.11
Fuller, Smith & Turner is splashing out £16 million to buy five pubs, four in London, as it moves to boost its estate in time for the Olympics... more

Playing fields get £300,000 boost from Olympic fund

21.10.11
Thousands more Londoners will be able to use their local playing fields for sport after seven sites in the capital were given more than £300,000 from an Olympics legacy fund... more

Westminster backs £3m fund for new business

21.10.11
Westminster Council has backed a £3 million incubator fund for London start-ups... more

Cost of rents in London at record high

21.10.11
London rents hit another record high of £1029 a month during September, as an acute shortage of properties pushed up prices, new figures show... more

We won't talk to ETA, vows Spain minister.

21.10.11
Spain's defence minister today ruled out talks with Basque separatist group Eta after its announcement that it will lay down arms for good. ... more

Europe scrambles for deal as agencies threaten more cuts

21.10.11
Standard & Poor's will probably drop the credit ratings of France and five other European countries by one or two notches if the region slips into recession and government borrowings increase, the rating agency said... more

Football and Olympics don't mix, says Arsene Wenger

21.10.11
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger voices concerns over players appearing at both Euro 2012 and next summer's London Olympic Games... more

Renting in the capital tops average take-home pay

20.10.11
Soaring London rents have outstripped average British household take-home pay for the first time, according to a new report... more

War on pickpockets in run-up to Games

20.10.11
Police vow to make London a 'very uncomfortable place' for pickpockets in the run-up to the Olympics as they raided the base of seven Romanians... more

Carla says 'non' to baby photos

20.10.11
Carla Bruni-Sarkozy is instructing lawyers to warn anybody against trying to photograph her new daughter... more

Scandal of trafficked women held in UK

20.10.11
Almost 200 women are being unlawfully detained in immigration centres after being trafficked into Britain, it has been revealed... more

Kate Middleton's mates, the Bunga boys

20.10.11
The discreet friends of the young royals tell Priscilla Pollara about defying the recession and taking on Claridge's... more

New exhibition sees stars pose for underwater photos

20.10.11
A new exhibition featuring photographs of famous faces under water is being launched to raise money for a seafarers' charity... more

London scores top GCSE marks in the country

20.10.11
Pupils in London scored the best GCSE results in England this year after more than 10 years of improvements, new figures show... more

Seven per cent of capital's pupils missed month of lessons over two terms

19.10.11
Almost 60,000 London pupils were absent from school so often that they missed a month's lessons over two terms, new figures show... more

Pay to sleep in an airport? Now that's a departure

19.10.11
Passengers at Heathrow can enjoy their hours in transit in comfort under a duvet and away from the crowds in new soundproof cabins... more

Florence Welch was drunk when she started new album

19.10.11
Florence Welch wrote her single 'No Light, No Light' while drunk on a bus at 4am... more

Islington leads way in bid for equality in pay levels

19.10.11
A London council has become the first town hall in the capital to pledge that its highest-paid employee will earn no more that 10 times that of its lowest-paid worker... more

On freewheeling off-duty days, Wills and Kate hire Boris bikes

19.10.11
When the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are off duty and in town, it seems they like nothing better than cycling around central London on Boris bikes... more

Oddbins is back on the high street

19.10.11
The quirky off-licence chain that made Britain fall in love with Australian chardonnay in the Eighties is back... more

Business chiefs want 'Crossrail 2' underground link

19.10.11
London business chiefs have set up a panel to explore building a new rail link - dubbed Crossrail 2 - beneath the capital... more

Graham Onions gets call to replace injured Chris Woakes

19.10.11
Seamer could make his first international appearance for more than a year... more


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