Palace of Westminster officials want iron railings more than three metres high around Parliament in a bid to stop protesters climbing on the roof... more
Harriet Harman was accused of giving an 'open invitation' to terrorists to attack Parliament by publishing a detailed plan of its layout on the internet... more
Big Ben marks its 150th anniversary of the first striking of its massive clock, this weekend, in the first of three such anniversaries this year
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Plans to build a 300-metre glass tower next to Battersea Power Station have been scaled back after opposition from campaigners and heritage groups... more
Visitors, MPs and countless staff and officials working at the Houses of Parliament are at risk from dangerous asbestos, a health report reveals... more
The fatal stabbing of a 15-year-old girl at a block of flats only minutes from the Houses of Parliament is a grim backdrop to the emergency debate on knife crime in the Commons this week... more
They are the new pin-ups of the green movement - the young campaigners who today clambered atop the Palace of Westminster to protest at plans to expand Heathrow... more
It's remarkable that up-market Italian Quirinale has survived as long as it has, but this is one of the few institutions in the Westminster Village that deserves to stay in fashion.... more
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