Hopes of adding a new station to Crossrail to help regenerate west London have moved a stage closer after a council agreed to underwrite the £33 million cost... more
Former asylum seeker living in a £1.2 million house paid for by the taxpayer was warned today she faced jail after pleading guilty to benefit fraud... more
As Education Secretary Michael Gove launches a policy to let teachers and parents start their own schools, Anne McElvoy talks to the west Londoners whose plans for one are well under way... more
When I first moved to Acton a year ago, I got into trouble with the locals for claiming that the only café in the neighbourhood serving "ethical" coffee had closed... more
What two words do parents of small children dread more than any other? Chicken pox? Indoor playcentre? Club Penguin? All of these pale into comparison next to "Easter holidays"... more
Around 800 jobs have been saved after the administrators of perennially-struggling MK One sold on a large part of the discount womenswear retailer.... more
A £10 all-you-can-drink promotion has been given the green light by a London council as a police commander questioned government plans for a crackdown on the alcohol industry... more
A 19-year-old died after being stabbed only yards from a police station, bringing the number of teenagers killed so far in London this year to 27... more
When I worked in Soho a couple of years back I enjoyed the way flickering neon signs in sex shop windows sat happily beside the area's trendy cafés and boutiques... more
When Toby Young had a meeting with his mortgage broker he discovered that Rules, London's most upper-class restaurant, is just the ticket when you're out to impress.... more
From country music via Tom Waits and a new singer-songwriter to a site that's more indie than indie,
David Smyth checks out the week's best downloads.... 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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