The Latest Breaking News from Battersea

Fire crews from Kensington, Chelsea, Fulham, Battersea and Paddington fire stations are at the scene

A former power station on the bank of the River Thames that was left derelict for decades is opening Friday after a 9 billion-pound ($10 billion) redevelopment turning the south London site into a new attraction complete with shops, bars and hundreds of apartments

Letters: Mike Lee on emissions from its chimneys, and Jane Marsh on the innovative use made of waste heat that it generated

After decades of false starts and fallouts, Battersea Power Station is reborn — but is the controversy over?

A Place in the Sun star Danni Menzies was knocked unconscious and left battered and bloodied when a stolen moped ploughed into her near her home in Battersea, south London

The new film Mrs Harris Goes to Paris is based on a 1958 novel by the American writer Paul Gallico: no British novelist could romanticise the class system quite so wackily. It is about the adventures of a Battersea char who, heartbroken by the death of her husband, saves up…

Brief letters: Crab apple jelly | Brain surgery pioneers | Battersea’s smoke | Possessive pronouns | Teacher’s puzzling English | Putrid pies

Wilkinson Eyre’s restrained conversion of the London landmark embraces the bravura of the original design, while the new flats aren’t so successful

Its rooftop ‘villas’ are £8m, its shops include Rolex and Cartier – and its affordable housing figure is just 9%. We go inside the £9bn, no-expense-spared rebirth of London’s famous landmark