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Interview: Rag trade veteran whose aim is to spruce up Aquascutum

09.09.09
Jaeger owner Harold Tillman is chairing London Fashion Week, which starts next Friday, but has still found time to snap up Aquascutum ... more

Colleges left 'crumbling' in £2.7bn funding fiasco

28.07.09
'Reckless' behaviour by civil servants has left London's further education colleges at risk of being unable to carry out more than £300m of desperately needed refurbishment... more

From red light to green: vice district blooms into gardens

15.07.09
One of London's worst red-light districts has been transformed by a community garden where residents grow their own food and flowers... more

Your first home for £40,000

29.01.09
This week as the IMF predicted the worst recession for 60 years, one part of the London housing market is taking off. Suddenly first-time buyers are are back, snapping up the best bargains seen in a long time. Laura Powell investigates... more

Crisis-hit Muslim school bailed out with state funding

28.10.08
A Muslim school has been given state funding to save it from closure... more

Court orders will bar prostitutes and pimps from Brixton

14.10.08
Pimps and prostitutes blighting a residential area of Brixton are to be issued with court injunctions to keep them off the streets in a purge by council chiefs and police in Lambeth... more

No more pain thanks to 'pill' camera that took photos of my insides

22.07.08
A teenager has overcome serious illness with the help of a miniature camera "pill" that travels through the body detecting disease... more

Mob chants 'murderer' as jail van runs over woman

23.04.08
A woman has died after being run over by a prison van and dragged 20 yards along the road following a confrontation in the street... more

Networker who brings a touch of class to the catwalk

13.02.08
It's London Fashion Week, and Jaeger boss Harold Tillman - the new man at the helm - is under fire but keeping his cool over size zero models ... more

Beyond the Fridge

19.10.07
Members bars, rooftop hot tubs... these days Brixton scrubs up well... more

Southside of the story

17.09.07
George IV, one of Brixton's party fixtures, is now the Southside Bar. As club/bar-type refits go, it's okay but may not have done quite enough.... more

Hardcore disciples keep the fires of rave burning

20.04.07
Scott Manson ponders the birth of rave music and how it turned out to be the biggest youth music movement ever seen, outlasting both the hippies and punk.... more

The ultimate pub guide

20.12.06
Kate Moss has decreed that pubs beat parties, clubs or bars. Luckily, London has a fantastic array of watering holes. Here we select the best places to huddle this Christmas.... more

It's their birthday

28.09.06
Independent record label BBE celebrates its tenth anniversary with a hip hop block party at Canvas, and there's a breaks bonanza in Brixton. Rahul Verma rounds up the weekend's top club nights.... more

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