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Boris Johnson is waging war on our city’s subversive south

09.02.10
Five river crossings are to close. All access points will be jammed. Have the natives been getting uppity? It's war... more

London graduates face salary and job cuts as employers freeze recruitment, warns report

09.02.10
Graduates in London are facing a struggle for jobs as leading firms cut salaries and freeze recruitment... more

Black theatre is blighted by its ghetto mentality

09.02.10
It is with a mixture of curiosity and trepidation that I will go to Bola Agbaje’s new play Off The Endz - for the “z” replacing the “s” suggests to me that it’s going to be yet another derivative black street play... more

UBS ups bonus pool to £1.7bn after return to profit

09.02.10
The bank declares it is hiking its bonuses by 34% for 2009 as it reports its first quarterly profit in more than a year... more

BNP to contest borough mayoral elections

09.02.10
Politicians show their anger at the British National Party's decision to field candidates for the May mayoral elections in three London boroughs... more

The Big Interview: Lord Coe

09.02.10
Video: 'Like Napoleon, I have always worked alongside lucky generals' - peer says London's preparations for 2012 Games are right on track... more

Pollution is ‘taking 10 years off the lives of Londoners'

09.02.10
Londoners are having up to 10 years wiped off their lives by poor air quality, a leading academic warns ... more

Crystal Palace take out advert in attempt to find buyer

09.02.10
The administrators in charge of Crystal Palace have taken out an advert in the Financial Times in a bid to sell the Coca-Cola Championship club... more

Oldest swingers in town: £40,000 playground for pensioners in Hyde Park

09.02.10
London is to get its first 'pensioners' playground' in the heart of Hyde Park after approval was given for an outdoor gym for the over-sixties... more

Is this love actually?

08.02.10
It's nearly Valentine's Day and London's dating scene has gone into overdrive. Victoria Stewart has been checking out some options... more

London’s justice system is failing us

08.02.10
Women's groups often complain that rape allegations relatively rarely result in offenders being convicted. One reason for that, at least in London, appears to be that so many cases are badly mishandled and collapse before they are concluded... more

Movie stars and new writers to battle it out for Olivier Awards

08.02.10
London theatre hailed a new generation of young playwrights today in Olivier Award nominations which also recognise one of the starriest years in West End history... more

London shows strong growth as most of UK lags

08.02.10
The capital is leading the UK out of recession, Purchasing Managers Index figures suggest... more

The gigs that come to you

08.02.10
Bands are now happy to play for fans in their own homes. It’s surreal, says Jasmine Gardner, but it makes commercial sense too... more

London providing record number of Army recruits

08.02.10
Record numbers of recruits from London are applying to join the Army despite British forces in Afghanistan suffering the highest death toll in a generation... more

Boris Johnson closes India ‘embassy’ despite election pledge

08.02.10
Boris Johnson's 'foreign embassies' in Delhi and Mumbai have been mothballed amid claims the move will cost London millions of pounds of new business, it has emerged... more

Snow falls in London as temperatures plunge

08.02.10
Snow returns to the capital as Britain braces itself for a fresh blast of wintry weather... more

Snow and big freeze leaves London with a £100m repair bill

08.02.10
London taxpayers face a £100million bill to repair and maintain roads following extensive damage caused by one of the coldest winters on record... more

Electric 'eVito' black cabs to be trialled in London

08.02.10
London could get an electric taxi as the company behind the Mercedes black cab launches a prototype... more

£320,000 ‘goodbye’ of capital’s highest-earning council boss

08.02.10
Camden housing chief who quit after failing to persuade tenants to give up control of their homes is London’s best-paid town hall official... more

Prius models to be recalled in new Toyota alert over brakes

08.02.10
Toyota dealers in Britain are braced for a second consumer alert in less than a week with thousands of cars of the latest Prius model expected to be recalled tomorrow... more

Will The Savoy ever regain its long lost glamour?

05.02.10
As it aims to open in June after a 15-month delay, Nick Curtis and Jonathan Prynn get an exclusive look at what’s emerging beneath the dustsheets of London’s most famous hotel after a refit costing at least £100 million... more

Three MPs and peer to face charges over expenses

05.02.10
MPs Elliot Morley, David Chaytor and Jim Devine and peer Lord Hanningfield are charged over their expenses claims... more

Rising house prices outside London set to outstrip capital

05.02.10
London led the recovery in Britain’s housing market at the end of 2009 but will lag behind the rest of the country this year... more

Liberty International split move welcomed

05.02.10
Property experts welcom proposals by Covent Garden owner Liberty International to split into two in one of the biggest corporate restructurings for the sector... more

London now puts Paris night life in the shade

05.02.10
More than 15,000 Parisians have signed a petition calling on our mayor, Bertrand Delanoë, to prevent the place from becoming "the European capital of boredom"... more

Dublin peddles cycle hire tips to Boris Johnson

05.02.10
The man behind Dublin’s successful bicycle hire scheme is offering tips to Mayor of London Boris Johnson... more

Warning over record number of anti-Semitic attacks

05.02.10
A record number of anti-Semitic attacks is “deeply troubling,” Prime Minister Gordon Brown says... more

Five places to eat sausages in London

04.02.10
The Stockpot is great value for the West End and the small chain of S&M cafés are just the job for sausage and mash. ... more

'Metro' trains from Calais to Kent

04.02.10
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