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Labour government gives go-ahead to Cockfosters station housing scheme Tories had blocked
Labour MP renews call for legal powers to curb antisocial e-bike use
Aldi and Lidl top London supermarket pay rate league
Islington: Labour holds Hillrise ward council seat against Corbyn-backed challenger
New leadership announced as London Olympic Park legacy enters new phase
Over 5,000 Londoners turned away from polling stations in May for lacking Voter ID
TfL reports ‘encouraging’ progress towards Mayor’s ‘ambitious’ goals
Angela Rayner planning overhaul gets range of reviews in London
Culture
John Vane: London Fiction – The Tiger in the Smoke
Crime queen Margery Allingham brought to life a post-war London of bereavement and peasoupers in her 1952 novel
Let’s all go down the Strand
The street connecting the West End and the City has for centuries been a home of theatre, grand architecture, Danes, Anglo-Saxons and many revered institutions
John Vane: London Fiction – Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens's second novel maps the social geography of Victorian London and draws a contrast between the depravity of its criminal underworld and the wholesomeness of the countryside
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Finn Brennan is a district organiser with the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers & Firemen (ASLEF), covering London Underground.
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Florence Eshalomi is Labour London Assembly Member for Lambeth & Southwark and a Lambeth councillor.
Caroline Pidgeon
Caroline Pidgeon MBE is a Liberal Democrat Londonwide member of the London Assembly.
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Richard Brown is a freelance writer and consultant who has worked for an array of major London organisations, including Centre for London, the Greater London Authority and the London Development Agency.
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Dave Hill
On London founder and editor Dave Hill has been a freelance writer since 1981 and an award-winning London specialist since 2008.
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