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Pothole compensation claims double in a year

RAC research found 20,432 claims were submitted to 18 local authorities with the largest road networks in 2023, compared with 8,327 in 2022.

The Independent UK

Housing, tax rises, train fares and pub pints: What Rachel Reeves' Budget means for Londoners

There was good news for London transport, with the Chancellor committing £485million for TfL’s capital renewals programme and confirming HS2 will go to Euston

Evening Standard

'Pedestrianised Oxford Street would be terror target', council warns Sadiq Khan

Westminster Council is furious that the London Mayor Sadiq Khan has announced rival plans to get rid of cars from the famous shopping street

Evening Standard

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'It's too much' say residents at London mansion block hosting more tourists than Ritz

More than 100 of the 530 flats at Park West in Westminster are suspected to be listed on short term letting websites

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London's Airbnb Wild West: Party pads and 'brothels' uncovered by probes into holiday lets

Capital ‘hollowed out’ by short-term lets eroding the private rental market

Evening Standard

Oxford Street 2.0: How £1bn investment will transform candy store blight back into premier shopping destination

Last year one retail boss branded Oxford Street a ‘national embarrassment’ because of the large number of empty premises

Evening Standard

Warning unscrupulous landlords could use a loophole to avoid Airbnb-style short term lets crackdown

The Chancellor has announced tax perks for second home owners who rent out properties as holiday lets will be abolished

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UK Orders Crack Down On 'Dirty Money' And 'Counterfeit Goods' Coming From London's American-Style Candy Shops

Police have seized more than 2,000 unlawful items from an American sweet shop in London, including fake designer products and vapes containing illegal amounts of nicotine.

International Business Times UK

‘It’s like a jungle’: London’s pedicab cyclists welcome licences but not price controls

Regulations for carriages, which have been accused of ripping off tourists, announced in king’s speech

The Guardian - UK

Westminster demands laws to end 'patchwork quilt of chaos' from abandoned e-bikes and e-scooters

Westminster council’s leader Adam Hug has written to Transport Secretary Mark Harper pleading for legislation allowing dockless e-bikes and e-scooters to be included in the King’s Speech

Evening Standard

Oxford Street ‘curse’ appears to be lifting as American candy store numbers fall

The proliferation of the tacky ‘American-style’ shops has been seen as symbolic of the street’s decline

Evening Standard

Home Office backs down on plan for asylum seekers to sleep four to a room

Move follows protest by refugees who had been told they would be sharing small London hotel rooms

The Guardian - UK

Dozens of refugees ‘left on the streets’ in Westminster for two nights

The asylum seekers apparently refused to enter a hotel in which the Home Office asked them to sleep ‘four people per room’.

The Independent UK

Forty refugees in standoff with Home Office over cramped London hotel

Westminster Council leader Adam Hug has written to the Home Secretary demanding to know why the town hall was not informed the ‘vulnerable group’ had been moved to the borough

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Flt Sgt Peter Brown: Hundreds of mourners gather for funeral of hero WW2 pilot

Cousin of Peter Brown says his legacy will live on ‘in minds and hearts’ forever

The Independent UK

Mourners gather for funeral of black RAF pilot who flew in Second World War

The funeral of Flight Sergeant Peter Brown is being held at St Clement Danes Church.

Evening Standard

OPINION - The Standard View: Cutting inflation a vital task – and Britain still has some way to go

It is heavily caveated and higher than expectations in the City, but at last there is some relief for households: inflation has fallen. April’s CPI headline rate of 8.7 per cent represents the first sub-10 per cent figure for eight months, sparking hopes that the worst of the cost-of-living crisis…

Evening Standard

Candy shop landlords ‘shamed’ after council letter calling for action

Council leader calls on Oxford Street property owners to ’rid the area of rip-off retailers once and for all’ in letter seen by the Standard

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Sadiq Khan: Boroughs need power to charge limitless council tax on empty homes

‘Long-term vacant’ homes across London are thought to be worth some £20 billion in total

The Independent UK

Funeral of one of RAF’s last black WW2 veterans moved to historic church

The service for Flight Sergeant Peter Brown will now take place at St Clement Danes, the RAF Central Church, in Westminster so more people can attend.

Evening Standard

London pedicabs: Four fines handed out to rip-off operators in fresh crackdown

Four central London pedicab operators have been issued fines as part of Westminster Council’s latest crackdown.

Daily Mirror

Free school meals offered to all pupils aged 3 to 14 in London borough

Westminster City Council will extend its provision of free school meals to thousands of children in nursery and secondary schools in an unprecedented move to help familes

Evening Standard

Westminster council extends free school meals to nursery, primary and secondary schoolchildren

A London council is set to become the first to give free school meals to nursery, primary and secondary school children.

Evening Standard

Oxford Street: £145,000 of goods including fake Apple products seized in latest US candy shops raid

More than £140,000 of illegal and counterfeit goods have been seized from Oxford Street US candy shops in the latest raid.

Evening Standard

Oxford Street candy stores play ‘whack a mole’ to defy council crackdown

Council leader Adam Hug has claimed the stores have cost taxpayers at least £8 million in unpaid business rates

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