London town halls are spending hundreds of thousands of pounds of taxpayers' money on training councillors to perform tasks such as using their Blackberry phones and checking facebook... more
Boris Johnson is urged to reconsider the closure of a District line service which residents and businesses say will undermine the exhibitions and events industry in west London... more
Baker Street earned Westminster council more than £300,000 from parking tickets last year - making it a contender for the capital's most lucrative road... more
Four children in east London were accused of bigotry at nursery school after their teachers reported them for using racist or homophobic language... more
Thousands of violent offenders in London including sex attackers and muggers are escaping prosecution because of a 'caution culture' at the Met, official figures reveal... more
Each of the six Olympic boroughs is to be given two five-star passes to the Games and their council leader and chief executive will get access to top seats at sports events and VIP lounges... more
Employers have paid out £13.4 billion in redundancy payments in the past three years, averaging £9,362 per worker in the last 12 months, according to a new report shows... more
Police injured trying to control anti-cuts protesters came under an extraordinary barrage of missiles while being sprayed with ammonia, strangled and head-butted
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Ministers made frantic attempts to find a cheaper alternative to the £355million Olympic media centre after private funding for the project collapsed, the Standard can reveal... more
Hundreds of Met Police officers have been convicted of crimes ranging from sex attacks and assaults to traffic offences in the past eight years... more
More than 4,200 people in London have been given £80 on-the-spot fines for possessing cannabis in the first year of a government crackdown on drugs... more
Crackdown on bad behaviour on Tubes and trains has been called a failure after it emerged half the people given on-the-spot fines failed to pay... more
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