The Latest Breaking News from LDRS

British Gas apologises to disabled pensioner after wrongly charging £2K for gas bill and making court threat

British Gas has apologised to Jose Bell after he was mistakenly charged and threatened with court action

Evening Standard · Aug 19

Hundreds of artists to be turfed out of‘lifeline’ studios by London council

Artist studios converted from 'uninhabitable' council flats have been told to vacate by January, prompting warnings that it could end careers

Evening Standard · Aug 19

Men who died in fire in 'neglected' building in west London named

The three men died after a fire broke out at a former community centre on the White City Estate in June

Evening Standard · Aug 18

London’s Burial Crisis: How the capital is running out of space for the dead

With London’s population continuing to age – ONS data predicts the proportion aged 65 and over will be 40.9 per cent by 2040 – it is likely that ever greater pressure will be put on finding burial space

Evening Standard · Aug 10

London’s burial crisis: Sadiq Khan urged to act as half of councils face running out of space in 15 years

More than half of London’s local authorities will run out of burial space within 15 years

Evening Standard · Aug 8

Disability campaigners call on mayor to scrap floating bus stops

The stops, first introduced in 2013, involve a cycle lane running between a bus stop and the pavement

Evening Standard · Aug 7

Why are Wimbledon's streets so dirty?

Filthy pavements anger residents in affluent London neighbourhood

Evening Standard · Aug 7

South London council approves controversial plans for 249 new homes

Critics say the approval of a 249-home social housing redevelopment is at odds with Merton Council’s own planning guidelines

Evening Standard · Aug 3

Petition after managers who invested £150,000 in London pub are told to leave

A petition calling on Star Pubs, part of Heineken UK, to allow the managers of the much-loved Park Tavern in Southfields to remain at the venue has gained more than a thousand signatures

Evening Standard · Aug 3

Iron Age crannog rebuilt five years after devastating blaze

An Iron Age-style crannog has opened to the public five years on from a devastating blaze

The National (Scotland) · Jul 30