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Met Police falling short of emergency call targets - as control room staff prepare to strike on NYE

In September 2022, inspectors discovered the force answered 63.9 per cent of 999 calls within 10 seconds – but this rose to 94 per cent by February 2024

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Mayor refuses to apologise after man has disabled parking bay painted around his car and is fined

The driver wrongly received at least four parking tickets

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'It's so close to Christmas': East London siblings face eviction from family home after mother dies of cancer

The family say they are being asked to leave the flat they grew up in just months after their mother died of cancer

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£22 milllion 'black hole' in London council's finances sparks tax hike and spending cuts warning

Council leader says town hall’s situation is ‘incredibly difficult’

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Londoners 'face overpriced ferry tickets' after Thames cycle bridge scrapped

In 2019, Transport for London discarded plans for a walking and cycling bridge between Canary Wharf and Rotherhithe

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Fears burnt-out historic south London pub could collapse this winter

The former Burn Bullock in Mitcham was badly damaged in a fire last April

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South London council signs off plan for huge housing scheme at former gasworks with no affordable homes

The development at Mitcham Gasworks will have 626 homes when finished

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'My landlord is a homelessness charity — and they are making me homeless'

Kim Mansell is facing a court battle against her landlord, homelessness charity the 999 club

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Second London councillor is 'spotted parked in disabled bay' just days after another apologises for the same act

It comes after a member of the same council resigned from his committee post after parking his Lamborghini in a disabled spot

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West London councillor 'told another to f*** off' at meeting

Katherine Dunne has said she doesn’t recall making the comment

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Crackdown on Paan chewing as clean-up costs London council over £30,000 a year

People spitting Paan facing a potential fine of up to £100 as Brent Council pledges ‘zero-tolerance approach’ to stains

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London councillor apologises after his Lamborghini was found parked in disabled bay twice without blue badge

Farhaan Rehman has also quit from one of his roles at Hounslow Council amid outcry over the parking of his £200,000 vehicle

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Hounslow councillor under investigation after Lamborghini seen parked in disabled bays

Photos appear to show Cllr Farhaan Rehman’s Lamborghini parked in two disabled bays at Hounslow House without a blue badge, prompting a Labour investigation

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GLA accused of telling developers to 'dig a trench' to inflate affordable housing stats

The authority has been urged to investigate claims figures were ‘embellished’ by officials

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Soho toilet called 'top cottaging spot in the UK' could become café

The Broadwick Street site opposite The Ivy was shut in 2021 due to repeated reports of sexual activity

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South London council is owed £1.1 million in unpaid parking fines

One driver owes an astonishing £68,255 after receiving 343 fines

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London dentist warns 200% rent hike will lead to people 'pulling out their own teeth'

Dentist warns surgery could be forced to go private due to huge rent hikes with potentially catastrophic consequences for patients

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Fresh calls to tackle notorious 'Euston Puddle' causing havoc outside London station

Disability charity warns of risks to blind pedestrians following Transport for London's failed attempt to drain stubborn pool of water

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Reform UK London Assembly Members criticised for missing Remembrance Service

The party’s political opponents at City Hall took aim at the two members for not turning up

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Single mum fined £1,000 for leaving envelope beside overflowing bins in west London

Loretta Alvarez, 26, says she was left ‘stressed’ and ‘shocked’ after being fined £1,000 for leaving an envelope next to full bins outside her flat in Feltham

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Nurse slapped with £1,000 fine by London council for 'flytipping' an envelope

Loretta Alvarez, 26, handed huge fine after putting cardboard envelope next to full communal bins outside her home

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‘It’s my only income’: Home baker battles Newham Council over cake business ban

The council ordered Fatima to stop using her home as a bakery in a planning enforcement notice issued in August

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Sir Michael Palin slams north London council for turning homes plan into 'investment opportunity'

Campaigners fear the Camden scheme will drive up rents and exacerbate the housing crisis by bringing another 1,000 residents into an already densely-populated area

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New £10m bridge planned to connect east London boroughs

The bridge would span the borough boundary between Tower Hamlets and Newham and is a joint project between the two councils

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Residents in south London flat blocks say they are 'living in hell' amid bug infestation

Bed bugs and ants have infested a number of flat blocks in the area, as have cockroaches and mice in the past

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