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£20K reward to find boy's killers

24.10.11
Scotland Yard is offering a £20,000 reward for information which helps officers find two gunmen who killed a 16-year-old boy in east London a year ago.... more

Yet another cable theft brings rail commuter chaos

30.09.11
Thousands of City workers suffered major delays today after yet another theft of copper signalling cable crippled commuter rail services into London... more

Closing: The only council sports centre in Stratford

28.09.11
The council running the Olympic borough is accused of letting down residents with its plans to close a leisure centre less than a mile from the 2012 Games aquatics centre... more

15 years jail for set-top box fraudsters

19.07.11
Three men who took part in a £144 million fraud by selling set-top boxes which allowed people unlawful free access to cable TV channels have been jailed... more

Police riot van rammed and officers hurt in high-speed car chase

19.05.11
East London police feared for their lives when a fugitive rammed their van in a high-speed car chase, a court heard... more

£40,000 grant for war memorial bells

08.02.11
Church has been awarded a £40,800 National Heritage Lottery grant to restore 10 memorial bells and install a handrail on stairs to the belfry... more

Shoppers buy at home to avoid cold weather

06.12.10
Online Christmas shoppers spend £1 million in a single minute for the first time ... more

Jailed girl racer taunted police: 'You're too slow'

24.11.10
Driver serving a three-year ban who took four police cars on a 60mph chase through residential streets is jailed for 12 months... more

Woman hit in face by flying Tube part sues after gash to head and eye

22.09.10
Woman passenger is suing London Underground after being smashed in the face by a canvas cover that became partly detached from a Tube train... more

Human error blamed for sending rush-hour Tube train wrong way

13.09.10
Human error was to blame for a Tube train being switched into the path of another, investigators believe... more

Tube signal puts trains on collision course in rush hour

09.09.10
Tube train was sent into the path of another at height of rush hour, the Standard can reveal... more

Jogger savaged by pack of attack dogs

23.08.10
Jogger was recovering in hospital today after being savaged by a pack of dogs... more

Four jailed for arson attack double murder

03.08.10
Four London men who murdered a husband and wife in an 'honour killing' which went wrong are jailed for minimum terms ranging between 19 and 28 years... more

Thrown cigarette may be cause of Tube fire chaos

05.07.10
Thousands of Tube passengers are hit by disruption after a fire destroys 50-year-old cables at Barking station... more

Fury of judges as defendants walk free

16.03.10
Concerns about the performance of prosecutors in London have been illustrated by two recent cases in which judges have lambasted their failings... more

Jail for Tube and bus gang who terrorised commuters

09.02.10
Eight teenagers in a gang called the 'Smooth Money Makers' have been sentenced to between two and four years each for attacking and robbing terrified Tube and bus passengers... more

Drunk 15-year-old who kicked homeless man to death jailed

29.01.10
A 15-year-old boy who kicked a homeless man to death while drunk is jailed for four years... more

Man, 21, hunted down and shot dead ‘for throwing a snowball’

13.01.10
Man killed by a shotgun blast to the chest may have been attacked in revenge after a snowball fight between two groups of youths in east London... more

Gang smuggled drugs into court during trial for carnival robberies

15.12.09
Eight teenagers convicted of a crime rampage on Tube trains and buses smuggled drugs into the dock during their trial... more

Capital gains as South Africans get set to make St Mary's their Olympic base

12.08.09
The Olympic squad of South Africa look poised to choose St Mary's College in Twickenham as their training base for the 2012 Games... more

Stabbed teen 'tried to protect friend'

27.01.09
Stabbing victim Stephen Lewis was trying to help a friend when he became the first teenager to be killed in London this year, his sister said... more

Cyclist is killed in collision with council rubbish lorry

14.01.09
A cyclist died after he was in collision with a refuse lorry... more

Motorcyclist left in road with severed leg by hit-run van driver

14.10.08
A motorcyclist has told how he was left dying by two van drivers after losing his leg in a hit-and-run accident... more

College stabbing victim was preparing to marry

24.09.08
A woman stabbed to death at a college by an alleged stalker wearing a Phantom Of The Opera-style mask was due to get married in Dubai, it was claimed... more

Stalker in a Phantom mask stabs receptionist to death

23.09.08
A stalker wearing a Phantom Of The Opera-style mask stabbed a woman to death and injured another before turning the knife on himself in an east London college... more

Teenager murdered for 'not showing respect'

24.06.08
An A-level student was murdered for failing to show his killer respect during New Year's Eve celebrations, the Old Bailey heard... more

Tube bomb still a danger

06.06.08
A painstaking operation to disarm a German bomb that is threatening east London continues... more

Wealthy Londoners among the laziest

11.04.08
Affluent Londoners are among the laziest in the capital, according to a survey conducted for the Evening Standard on the eve of the Flora London Marathon... more


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