The price of gold hits a record high amid concerns about the US debt crisis - and analysts predict it will soar even higher, to $2000 per ounce, by the start of the London Olympics... more
Drunken revellers could be barred from entire neighbourhoods rather than just individual clubs and pubs under new rules to combat alcohol-fuelled crime... more
Town Hall bosses in west London are set to ban the opening of new bars, clubs and pubs in an entire neighbourhood amid concern about loutish behaviour and crime... more
A man fined over complaints that he sang Robbie Williams's Angels at the top of his voice at his flat late at night is threatening to sue his council for libel... more
Trials of round-the-clock policing have led to an increase in the number of drug dealers and addicts being taken off the streets, Met figures show... more
The Mayor of Tower Hamlets defeated Labour to be elected. Livingstone not only backed him but some of Ken's key players are now at the heart of running the council. Stephen Robinson reports