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All of the bizarre celebrity encounters in Boris Johnson's memoir Unleashed

From mayoral meetings with Lily Allen to bathroom trips with Leonardo DiCaprio, Boris Johnson has had his fair share of odd celebrity run-ins. Claudia Cockerell on the strangest ones to grace the pages of Unleashed, his new book

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New Year's Eve London fireworks: Tickets cost up to £50 as premium areas and 'tourist tax' introduced

Londoners will pay £15 per ticket less than visitors from abroad or rest of UK

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Sadiq Khan: Extending Night Tube to run on Thursday nights 'under review'

‘Thursday is the new Friday’, the mayor was told at a City Hall meeting

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Home Secretary Yvette Cooper did go to Taylor Swift concert, admits Cabinet minister despite earlier denial

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper did go to a Taylor Swift concert at Wembley, a minister admitted on Thursday despite a Cabinet colleague denying just 24 hours earlier that she had.

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Taylor Swift police convoy through London for Wembley gigs was Met Police decision, insists No10

Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy insisted the decision for a motorbike escort was an operational decision by the Met Police

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Green light for hundreds of new homes in Tooting as City Hall overrules Wandsworth Council

An NHS doctor told City Hall it would be a ‘lost opportunity’ for the ‘derelict’ site to ‘go unused’ in the midst of London’s housing crisis

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Sadiq Khan suffers blow as deputy mayor for policing and crime quits City Hall

Sophie Linden follows Amy Lame out of City Hall and is the third deputy mayor to quit in a matter of months

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City Hall set to overrule council by approving 449 new homes in Tooting's Springfield Village

Councillors warned the project would put ‘unreasonable pressure on public transport and surrounding road networks’

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Ex-NYPD commissioner rejected discipline for cops who raided Brooklyn bar now part of federal probe

In late August, shortly before resigning under a cloud of scandal, New York City’s former police commissioner blocked the discipline of three officers involved in a melee outside a Brooklyn juice bar

The Independent UK

Sadiq Khan's night czar Amy Lamé to stand down after eight years

It is unclear whether Ms Lamé will be replaced with a new night czar

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NYC mayor deflects questions about bribery charges as a potential witness speaks outside City Hall

New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Monday delivered his most thorough public defense to date since his indictment on federal bribery charges

The Independent UK

Kerridge tells Premier he has a mandate for council review

Chris Minns congratulates Ross Kerridge on his election.

Newcastle Herald

Sadiq Khan urges Londoners to 'unite against hate' amid ongoing crisis in Middle East

City Hall has announced a further £875,000 investment in grassroots community projects to tackle hate

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All England Club hopes Wimbledon expansion plan gets the green light

The redevelopment plans include the construction of a new 8,000-capacity stadium, but have faced protests from local groups, residents and politicians

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New York mayor Eric Adams charged over Turkish 'luxury travel travel and hotels' bribery

Eric Adams has said he will remain in office, describing the charges as ‘entirely false, based on lies’

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New York Mayor Eric Adams indicted on federal charges of bribery and fraud

Eric Adams, the mayor of New York City, on Thursday was indicted on federal criminal charges that include allegations he accepted and sought illegal contributions to his campaign for mayor. Adams said he is innocent and vowed to fight the charges at a press conference outside Gracie Mansion.

The Independent UK

Ex-NYC COVID adviser is fired after video reveals he attended parties during pandemic

A former New York City official who helped coordinate the city’s response to the pandemic has been fired from his private-sector job

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ULEZ vandals face justice but avoid jail for £4,500 of damage in camera attacks

ULEZ vandals behind £4500 of camera damage have been sentenced

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Sadiq Khan's deputy mayor for environment pledges to curb plane trips after clocking up 40,000 air miles

Mete Coban was dubbed ‘high carbon Coban’ due to number of flights in previous job

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Sadiq Khan to voice opposition to Donald Trump during New York visit

Sadiq Khan is on a four-day trip to New York during which he hopes to hit the headlines by expressing opposition to Donald Trump regaining the US presidency.

The Independent UK

First Trump said Haitian migrants in Ohio were ‘eating the pets’. Now he says they’re ‘destroying America’

‘You may never see me again, but that’s okay,’ Trump jokes after saying he’ll visit Springfield, city at center of his false claims that migrants are eating people’s dogs and cats

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OPINION - The pedestrianisation of Oxford Street must take account of buses

The last time Oxford Street came anywhere close to being “pedestrianised” was in the utter depths of the first Covid lockdown in spring 2020. I recall running — okay, perhaps jogging — blissfully along the central white line through a desolate West End from Marble Arch to Centre Point as…

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Affordable homes being built in London falls to lowest level of Sadiq Khan's eight years in City Hall

Only 2,358 homes were started with City Hall funding in 2023-24, when London needs 43,000 affordable homes a year

The Independent UK

Two ex-fire chiefs in New York City arrested in corruption scandal

Two former New York City Fire Department chiefs have been arrested on charges that they solicited tens of thousands of dollars in bribes to provide preferential treatment in the department's fire prevention bureau

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NYC Mayor Eric Adams Faces Political And Legal Crisis

New York City Mayor Eric Adams faces challenges with resignations and federal investigations, impacting City Hall stability and future politics.

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