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Man in court over Jermain Defoe's brother killing

16.10.09
A 34-year-old man appeared in court to deny the manslaughter of the half-brother of England footballer Jermain Defoe... more

How your journey will be affected

15.10.09
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Damon Albarn could direct opening ceremony of 2012 Olympic Games

24.09.09
Damon Albarn is in the running to be artistic director for the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympics.... more

Police are told to treat hundreds more attacks as 'honour' crimes

22.09.09
Police and prosecutors are to be told to presume that hundreds more crimes are 'honour' based in a new drive to bring more offenders to justice... more

Dispute leaves London area short of 50 fire engines a day

16.09.09
Dispute between firefighters and management has left about 15 stations and 50 fire engines out of action on every shift because of staff shortages, it was claimed... more

Man jailed for pub killing

01.09.09
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Tiny tycoons: the young Londoners bucking the recession

28.08.09
Last week a report claimed that nearly 1 million under-25s were on the dole. But in the capital, bright young businesses are springing up like green shoots. Andy Barker meets the Dragons of the future...... more

Keeping the city alive: Landlords turn over 'slack space' to creative projects

24.08.09
Property owners are loaning or cheaply leasing empty retail space or buildings on stalled development sites - known as "slack space" - to galleries and creative enterprises... more

Pregnant woman has to be flown to Sweden

24.07.09
A pregnant woman critically ill with swine flu is being treated in a Swedish hospital because no beds are available in Britain for her rare treatment... more

Muslim wife faces ‘death sentence’ after acid horror attack on lover

23.07.09
Police have told a married Muslim woman she could be murdered after her lover was attacked with sulphuric acid in a London street... more

Gang throws acid in man's face and stabs him twice

02.07.09
Man critically ill in hospital after acid was thrown in his face by a masked gang in east London... more

Woolies pops up again as art gallery

29.06.09
A defunct Woolies store in east London has been requisitioned by local artists as part of the craze for “pop-up” art galleries across the city... more

GP told patient to see personal injury law firm

09.04.09
A London GP is facing investigation by the General Medical Council for referring patients to a firm of personal injury solicitors... more

Ring of steel keeps demos away from world leaders

02.04.09
Hundreds of police officers formed a ring of steel around the Excel Centre as protesters swarmed around the site... more

He lives in a B&B and is classified as local by 2012 chiefs: Meet Arturas the 'British' builder from Lithuania

16.02.09
A Lithuanian labourer has told how he is considered a "local" by bosses of the 2012 Olympic site as pressure mounted over jobs for London workers... more

Three offers of £1million for first home of baby Beckham

20.11.08
The house where David Beckham lived as a baby has attracted three offers of £1million... more

On sale at £1m, the terrace house where Becks grew up

17.11.08
From the outside, there appears nothing special about this three-bedroom terrace house in Leytonstone to merit the astonishing £1million price tag... more

Facebook 'can help police stop teen murders'

29.10.08
Police are targeting social networking websites such as Facebook, Bebo and MySpace to try to understand more about teenage murders... more

Stab victim's family ask PM to act on knives

08.09.08
The family of murdered teenager Charles Junior Hendricks is writing to the Prime Minister demanding more action to clamp down on knife crime... more

Crisis talks after knife death at site of Olympic handover party

26.08.08
The 2012 host boroughs are set to hold crisis talks on knife crime after an Olympic Games party was scrapped when a teenager was stabbed to death at the site... more

No charges over C.diff outbreak that killed 90

30.07.08
Hospital bosses will not be charged over Britain's worst superbug outbreak which led to the deaths of 90 patients... more

Bendy fleet banned from bridge over fear of collapse

24.06.08
A fleet of bendy buses is having to be diverted because their weight is threatening Tube lines below... more

League table names and shames capital's dirty hospital kitchens

05.06.08
Hospital kitchens and canteens in London are among the most unhygienic in the country... more

The families who fought back against teen killers

30.05.08
The murder of Paul Erhahon might have gone unsolved but for a witness protection scheme that enabled brave youngsters to give evidence against the local thugs ... more

'Scumbags' who ran over father jailed for 25 years

15.05.08
Two brothers condemned as "scumbags and total low life" by police were jailed for a minimum of 25 and 27 years each at the Old Bailey... more

Rare to find

30.10.07
Although perhaps not outstanding in any way, pubs like the North Star are getting rarer to find and if this were your local, you'd be happy. ... more

Tate 'crack' has Londoners falling over themselves

10.10.07
The crack in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall floor proved a hit with visitors on the opening day of Shibboleth, an installation by Columbian Doris Salcedo - despite three people falling into it.... more

Essex cowboys show promise

30.08.06
Self-styled cowboys of Romford, Ragmop, bring their sweltering soup of funk-licked swampy twang and back-porch soul to Leytonstone High Road, and it's set to be a barnstorming evening.... more

Havana Affair

08.08.06
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Haute Couture at The Leopard Lounge

08.08.06
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