The Queen, Barack Obama and Arsenal and Chelsea football clubs write to a 16-year-old refugee from Afghanistan living in London to wish her good luck in her exams... more
A full inquiry into the scandal of MPs' pay and perks was speeded up as dozens of London MPs were set to pocket an inflation-busting rise of more than nine per cent... more
A Labour MP who has campaigned against Heathrow expansion spoke of his "huge embarrassment" for siding with the Government over plans for a third runway... more
Few people outside their own families have heard of Siobhain McDonagh, Joan Ryan or Barry Gardiner. So what does the Prime Minister have to fear from a handful of backbenchers with the collective clout of a wet flannel? More than Gordon Brown's spin doctors would have you believe... more
London Gateway, the £1.5bn container port under construction on the Thames at Thurrock, will have capacity to unload six of the world's largest ships at one time and have as much impact on the capital as a new airport or half a dozen Westfield shopping centres
With London Fashion Week kicking off on Friday, British designer Matthew Williamson tells Rosamund Urwin about breaking up with his ex, post-show partying and his new model man
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