Filling in the potholes on London's roads will take at least eight years and cost about £263 million as councils battle huge shortfalls in repair budgets, Labour claims... more
Suburban motorists are to be lured out of their cars and on to two wheels under Boris Johnson's plan to increase the number of cyclists in London... more
A senior health official whose letter to an “overweight” 11-year-old caused her to starve herself was once so obese that he had a gastric band fitted... more
Ex-London council worker tells how he was threatened with disciplinary action because his employers objected to him revealing that he lived in Epping Forest... more
Some 1,400 of London's most severely disabled children have received expert sports coaching thanks to the £83,000 grant to the Panathlon from the Mayor's Olympic legacy fund.... more
Billy Bragg 'declared war' on the BNP, and called the electoral battle for his home town of Barking a 'fight for the soul of the English people'... more
Senior BNP member has been suspended as a councillor and ordered to undergo ethics training, but escaped suspension from the Greater London Authority... more
BNP councillor facing suspension for falsely claiming three people were murdered within three weeks in Barking and Dagenham claimed he mixed his words because he is dyslexic... more
Media analysis: There is no doubt that many local newspapers are facing a fight for survival - though it is their owners that are in real trouble.... more
The number of cases of alcoholrelated illnesses being treated in hospital has almost doubled in one area in just three years and has rocketed in many other districts... more
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