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Oldest swingers in town: £40,000 playground for pensioners in Hyde Park

09.02.10
London is to get its first 'pensioners' playground' in the heart of Hyde Park after approval was given for an outdoor gym for the over-sixties... more

Chelsea fans to get free health checks on matchdays

09.02.10
Chelsea fans are being offered health checks before weekend home matches in a mobile screening unit at the ground... more

Restaurant boss testifies over worker’s river death

09.02.10
Restaurateur tells the Old Bailey of the night an employee plunged to his death in the Thames after a fancy dress party... more

Drunk train guard ignored red light and refused to let passengers off

09.02.10
Drunken train guard signalled his driver to go through a red light and refused to open doors to let passengers on or off during a terrifying journey between Waterloo and Kingston... more

Brown takes firm stand on voting reform

09.02.10
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£320,000 ‘goodbye’ of capital’s highest-earning council boss

08.02.10
Camden housing chief who quit after failing to persuade tenants to give up control of their homes is London’s best-paid town hall official... more

Mortgage cost for Londoners hits average £1,240 a month

08.02.10
Average mortgage repayment for a first-time buyer in London who can find a 25 per cent deposit is £1,240 a month — more than half the average wage, research reveals... more

Fast rail link would ‘cancel need for Heathrow extension’

08.02.10
Landmark report on high-speed rail includes modelling for a revolutionary network without a third runway at Heathrow... more

Snow and big freeze leaves London with a £100m repair bill

08.02.10
London taxpayers face a £100million bill to repair and maintain roads following extensive damage caused by one of the coldest winters on record... more

New Labour is sinking under the weight of its past

08.02.10
New Labour has been worn away like a man carrying the burden of decades of struggle. The mantra "Change, or more of the same", will be the key to the next election... more

Green light for Crossrail station at Paddington

05.02.10
Plans to build a new Crossrail station at Paddington are approved by Westminster council... more

Three MPs and peer to face charges over expenses

05.02.10
MPs Elliot Morley, David Chaytor and Jim Devine and peer Lord Hanningfield are charged over their expenses claims... more

Gatecrashers invade £1m Kingston house for boy's Facebook party

05.02.10
Westminster School pupil is left with a huge repair bill after his home is damaged by drunken teenagers... more

City Spy: Hands up! No need to be so coy about EMI

05.02.10
GUY Hands’ nightmare with EMI just gets worse... more

London MPs will lose second homes cash in expenses payback

04.02.10
Former ministers Barry Gardiner and Joan Ryan have paid back the largest sums of all London MPs... more

Cheating MPs in £1m expenses payback day

04.02.10
The full scale of the MPs' expenses scandal is laid bare in a day of shame and chaos for Parliament... more

East London is best for quickest buy-to-let returns

03.02.10
East London emerges as the location for the quickest returns for buy-to-let landlords ... more

Westminster councillors attacked for laying on banquet after sacking staff

03.02.10
Tory councillors to hold a lavish £23,000 banquet despite having sacked 300 workers to plug a budget black hole... more

Stroke victims face 48-hour wait for a brain scan

03.02.10
Patients in London and the South-East face vastly differing treatment times after suffering strokes at weekends... more

Harriet Harman vs the Pope in the great equality war

03.02.10
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£5m ‘illegal’ diplomatic bay parking fines could be repaid

01.02.10
Central London councils could be forced to pay back up to £5 million in parking fines after it emerged that hundreds of bays have been operating illegally for decades... more

Why the parking war on drivers? Well, it's a nice earner

26.01.10
There’s nothing a London bobby likes as much as a new bit of kit to keep him inside a warm office. I imagine that only a stingy Treasury stands between PC Plod and a tactical nuclear missile... more

New parking restrictions ‘will earn Westminster £7m a year’

22.01.10
A secret internal memo from Westminster council reveals it will make more than £7 million a year from new parking regulations... more

Westminster to ban free parking in the evening

20.01.10
Free evening parking would be scrapped across much of the West End in plans being considered by a London council... more

Westminster gets break in prison security

18.01.10
Security group Westminster announces a four-year contract with the Ministry of Justice to supply equipment to prisons... more

Westminster council agrees motorbike parking fees in spite of vandalism

13.01.10
Motorcyclists will be charged to park in central London after council bosses approved the scheme... more

Go-ahead for Piccadilly Circus hotel with windowless pods

11.01.10
'Pod' hotel stacking guests into tiny rooms like sardines has been approved by Westminster councillors... more

Three little miracles raise a big thank you to hospital

16.12.09
Parents of premature triplets have raised more than £250,000 for the hospital that saved their babies' lives... more

Beware your Boxing Day parking may not be free

15.12.09
London councils were facing a backlash from motorists after it emerged almost half of local authorities will refuse to treat Boxing Day as a bank holiday and allow people to park free... more

Dangerous cyclists to be fined £30 by council staff

07.12.09
Cyclists in central London face a crackdown that will see an increase in the numbers fined for breaches of the Highway Code such as ignoring red lights or riding on pavements... more

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