Group of girls who 'saw things they should never have seen' while growing up on 'gang turf' now offer support to girls living on estates with no one to turn to for advice... more
New measures to make it easier for children to report knife owners anonymously are being planned by City Hall after a spate of stabbings in London... more
Many of London’s one-way systems are being consigned to the 'dustbin of history' after turning into dangerous and frustrating traffic bottlenecks... more
'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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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