The public-sector cuts could create some strange bedfellows. Eric Pickles' Communities and Local Government Department, which occupies the triangular glass Eland House near Victoria Station, is having to lose roughly 700 posts from its current 2200 and will need a sub-tenant... more
Ministers are warned that housing benefit cuts could lead to “social cleansing” after Westminster council says it may have to house poor families outside central London... more
Westminster council finally disowned its disgraced former leader Dame Shirley Porter, almost 16 years after the "homes for votes" scandal was exposed... more
Boris’s deputy mayor for policing, Kit Malthouse, explains the thinking behind the Mayor’s new knife crime initiative – and who he believes is the best officer to succeed Sir Ian Blair... more
In his first interview since becoming City Hall chief of staff, Sir Simon Milton talks about the problems at the top and his own battle with leukaemia... more
Boris Johnson was accused of being "Dame Shirley Porter in a suit" amid claims that his housing plans were biased against Labour-voting tenants in London... more
Calling in the Met to 'clear Lee Jasper's name' was an attempt by the Mayor to divert attention from the true nature of his aide's wrongdoing - the misuse of taxpayers' money... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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