If I were a tax-avoiding multimillionaire, I would look out of the Hyde Park penthouse that I was only allowed to live in 90 days a year and feel embarrassed... more
Pakistani cricketer Mushtaq Ahmed is backing a campaign to promote British values as the UK authorities seek to prevent a terror attack on the 2012 London Olympics
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The defeat by Kensington residents of plans for a new Iranian embassy in Queen's Gate, a "yellow fortress" of ochre stone and marble, is hailed as a "victory for common sense"... more
Residents of the Peckham estate where Damilola Taylor died told today how child gangs continue to blight the area, nearly 10 years after the schoolboy was stabbed to death... more
The Evening Standard’s series on poverty this week, The Dispossessed, has stirred up a huge response both from readers and across the political spectrum... more
Heads of leading London charities Kids Company and Centrepoint today spoke of how Evening Standard readers can do their bit to help make life better for the capital’s dispossessed... more
This week the Standard embarks on a unique piece of reporting on London: The Dispossessed, a survey of the capital’s hidden poverty. It will shock readers — and it should do... more
Thanks to the astounding generosity of Evening Standard readers, our Christmas auction can give the leading charity Kids Company nearly £250,000... more
Generous Evening Standard readers have so far raised more than £240,000 for charity in the Christmas auction — beating last year’s total by £35,000... more
For seven years the Standard has supported London's leading children's charity. Now we are proud to tell two of its most inspirational success stories... more
Scotland Yard has launched an inquiry into gang rapes after new figures revealed a massive rise in the number of incidents and that victims were getting younger... more
He makes yarn from plastic bags and sews his clothes on a Twenties treadle-powered Singer machine. Now he wants to take on climate change and anti-social behaviour with the crochet needle... more
Teenagers talk for the first time about shocking new levels of sexual violence in London as a charity chief says post-code gangs are now using multiple rape as a weapon to enforce their will... more
The dreadful death of Baby P has brought the wrath of the nation down on one London locality, already notorious for Victoria Climbie. But a leading expert says there are hundreds of other children across London who could suffer the same tragic fate... more
Poverty, health, homelessness and racial tensions abound in a city awash with money. These are the people who are trying to do something about it. ... more
Two London children's charities were celebrating a £1.4 million windfall after Damien Hirst gave them a slice of his record-breaking £111 million art auction... more
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