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Could private school fees plan hit Labour in London seat where over half of parents pay for education?

Labour has pledged to end the VAT exemption on private schools and use the money to hire 6,500 teachers in the state sector

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Investigation launched after police break into Kensington home to find pensioner dead

Police are asking for information over final movements of Rita Fleming, 70, with her death being treated as ‘unexpected and unexplained’

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Police probe 'unexplained' death of woman in Kensington

Rita Fleming was found unresponsive inside her home

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Kensington Palace Gardens reopens to cyclists after safety measures installed

Britain’s most expensive residential street was shut over speeding cyclists

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Man who 'threw objects onto train tracks' arrested after 24 hours on Kensington rooftop

Officers spent more than 24 hours unsuccessfully attempting to talk a man down, before he eventually came down shortly before 5am on Tuesday

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Overground trains suspended after man on roof throws objects onto track at Kensington Olympia

Residents in Russell Garden Mews were evacuated by police

Evening Standard

General Election 2024 London seats: Who is my MP in...Kensington and Bayswater

Evening Standard analysis of key seats in London for the July 4 General Election

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George Galloway’s Workers Party of Britain at centre of a row over nailing leaflets on trees in London borough

Kensington and Chelsea’s parks police stepped in when it became aware of the leafleting

Evening Standard

How opioid treatment centers can overcome bipartisan NIMBYism to build local support

Some residents of Fairmount, an upper-middle-income neighborhood of Philadelphia, are irate that a nearby homeless shelter is being turned into an addiction “triage” center without input from the surrounding community. News of the shelter’s expansion came just a week before the high-profile closing of an encampment of people experiencing homelessness…

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How guerilla gardener Tayshan Hayden-Smith is bringing green power to the people

From the ashes of the Grenfell fire, non-profit Grow to Know wants to bring nature to Kensington and Chelsea

Evening Standard

The best restaurants in Kensington, from Zaika to Jacuzzi

Food fit for a king: Ben McCormack selects the best places to eat in the Royal Borough

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Inside the most expensive gyms in London

From the one that offers medical-grade fitness analysis to Gwyneth Paltrow’s favourite wellness destination, Alexandra Parren takes you on a tour of the most exclusive gyms in the capital

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Raising the roof: South Kensington rooftops with 'potential for development' on sale for £200,000

The two neighbouring rooftops are located at 55-57 Gloucester Road, and are registered as a separate address

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OPINION - Dylan Jones: I've just been to the best exhibition you'll see in London this week

I remember the first time I walked into the Big Biba shop in Kensington, I didn’t know where to look. Actually, that’s not strictly true, as I wanted to look everywhere, but was so self-conscious (I was barely 14), I couldn’t look more than a few feet in front of…

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Man shot dead in West Kensington was jailed in 2021 for role in cutting up of jazz trumpeter

Janayo Lucima was sentenced to three years and three months at the Old Bailey

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‘Cunning’ thief who stole £870,000 from Kensington’s five-star Royal Garden Hotel jailed

Zaheer Abbas spent his loot on property and a new Audi car

Evening Standard

Why I live in Kensington: DJ Amazonica on why her west London area offers the best of Zone 1

Victoria ‘Harry’ Harrison, better known as Amazonica, has always felt a connection to Kensington. The superstar DJ explains why it has the edge on LA.

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Son accused of murdering his own father in 'sustained attack' at Kensington home

A man is accused of bludgeoning to death his own father at the flat where they had both been living in Kensington, a court has heard.

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Kensington murder: Man, 78, dies following ‘disturbance’ at home near Earl's Court

The 78-year-old was discovered injured on Longridge Road, near Earl’s Court

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Inside Biba: Kensington's Sixties fashion palace where Diana Ross, Princess Anne and David Bowie used to shop

From Barbara Hulanicki – the legend who started it all – to the Biba girls who worked the shop floor, as a new exhibition opens in London Isobel Van Dyke meets those who built London’s fashion empire of the swinging Sixties

Evening Standard

Notting Hill pub popular with stars including Dua Lipa goes to court over licence after moans from neighbours

Last year Kensington and Chelsea Council imposed a wave of restrictions on the Pelican after a group of nine people called for a review

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More than 100 evacuated and nearly a dozen injured after fire in South Kensington

Eleven people treated for smoke inhalation after fire breaks out in residential building in London

Evening Standard

Freddie Mercury's time capsule Kensington home on sale for £30m for the first time in 40 years

Serious buyers only need apply to view the home of the legendary Queen front man

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Philadelphia's Kensington Neighborhood Faces Drug Market Crisis

Philadelphia's Kensington neighborhood grapples with a drug epidemic, highlighting the need for comprehensive harm reduction strategies and community invol...

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In Philadelphia's Kensington neighborhood, heroin is far from 'chic'

A young poet and writer who lost his father to opioid addiction says there's nothing cool about what the drugs did to his dad. So why are peers trying to look like emaciated people with addiction?

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