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Boy named after London hotel he was born in visits on 10th birthday

The surprise hotel birth happened after hospital staff said his mother ‘wasn’t in full labour’

Evening Standard · Apr 3, 2023

Aluminium is given a sculptural sensibility in Completedworks’ London showroom

Completedworks draws on aluminium and lime wash for the new jewellery workshop and showroom

Wallpaper · Apr 3, 2023

Sharp rise in flu patients in London hospitals as pressure builds ahead of junior doctors strike

Pressure building on hospitals in the capital ahead of four-day walkout next Tuesday

Evening Standard · Apr 3, 2023

Suella Braverman claims £25,000 in expenses for household bills after 'milking loophole'

One MP said the Home Secretary's claims were within the rules but not 'in the spirit' of them

Manchester Evening News · Apr 3, 2023

TfL picks Barratt as partner on large new housing development in Acton

Barratt London will work with TfL to bring forward a site by Bollo Lane in Acton where up to 900 new homes are planned

Evening Standard · Apr 3, 2023

Mile End: Man, 19, fighting for life after stabbing on major east London road

A 19-year-old man is fighting for life after a stabbing on a major east London road on Sunday afternoon.

Evening Standard · Apr 3, 2023

ByOthers’ architectural office nestles into its leafy south London site

The Drawing Shed is a meticulously crafted architectural office for London studio ByOthers, hand-built in a back garden

Wallpaper · Apr 3, 2023

My exhausting, anxious and liberating quest to make new friends

In 2022, The Independent’s travel editor Helen Coffey moved to Folkestone in Kent after years spent pining for the sea while living in London. There was one problem – she didn’t know a soul

The Independent UK · Apr 3, 2023

How China is winning the race for Africa’s lithium

The country already dominates processing of the metal for use in electric vehicle batteries and is now investing heavily in mines, leaving western operators scrambling to keep up

Financial Times · Apr 3, 2023

Floating on London Stock Exchange 'not an experience I'd recommend to anyone', says THG boss Matthew Moulding

THG floated on the London Stock Exchange in September 2020 in a move that raised £1.88bn

Birmingham Post · Apr 3, 2023