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How often is council tax paid and are there tax-free months?

With changes in the council tax rules, it's vital to know how often you need to pay and which months might be tax-free

Evening Standard

Wandsworth council sets London's lowest council tax as more boroughs prepare to issue £2,000 bills

Kingston – which shares a border with Wandsworth in Roehampton Vale - is again expected to set the highest bills

Evening Standard

OPINION - Wimbledon's expansion plan is not a 'win-win,' it is bad for Londoners

Our shared view as local MPs is that the project should not go ahead

Evening Standard

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Londoners back £200m expansion for Wimbledon

Poll shows support for The All England Club, which runs the Wimbledon Championships, building 38 new grass courts and new stadium on the former Wimbledon Park golf course

Evening Standard

Wimbledon expansion plan dealt blow as planners advise rejecting it

Wandsworth council officers snub scheme to build 8,000-seat stadium show court and 38 grass courts

The Guardian - UK

Wig cupboard, anyone? 10 London homes for sale with unique historic details, from Wandsworth to Wood Green

Common old cornicing won’t cut it? These historic London homes come with rarefied features, from art deco mouldings to frescoed ceilings

Evening Standard

Spare these London flats the wrecking ball. But no more eyesore tower blocks please

High-rise blocks should not be the future, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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Daniel Khalife: 80 prison officers didn’t show up for work on day terror suspect escaped

Nearly 40 per cent of HMP Wandsworth staff failed to turn up on the day of the prison break, Tory minister admits, as National Crime Agency boss is brought in to investigate

The Independent UK

Five key questions about Daniel Khalife’s escape, after terror suspect recaptured

Why was a terrorist suspect in a category B jail; did he get help to break out; and were overcrowding or staff shortages to blame?

The Guardian - UK

‘Mess in prison system’ will have played a role in Khalife’s escape, says official

A former director general of the Prison Service has criticised the “mess” in the system that he believes will have played a role in Daniel Khalife’s escape.

Evening Standard

Prison escape: HMP Wandsworth ‘needs closing’, says chief inspector of prisons, after Daniel Khalife case

Charlie Taylor said in an ideal world he would shut the prison, but it was needed to service the courts and because of a ‘crisis’ in prison places

The Independent UK

HMP Wandsworth needs closing, says chief inspector of prisons

Charlie Taylor said in an ideal world he would shut the prison, but it was needed to service the courts and because of a ‘crisis’ in prison places.

The Independent UK

Inquiries launched after terror suspect Daniel Khalife’s prison escape

Justice secretary says ‘no stone must be left unturned’ in examining Khalife’s escape from Wandsworth

The Guardian - UK

Inquiry to establish why escaped terror suspect was not held at top-security jail

Investigation launched over escape of Daniel Khalife from category B facility, cabinet minister confirms

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The Independent UK

Terror suspect Daniel Khalife’s escape is ‘catastrophic failure’, prison’s former head of security says

Around 30 to 44 per cent of frontline staff ‘unavailable to work’ in ‘filthy, vermin-infested’ Wandsworth prison

Evening Standard

London has 19 of UK’s top 20 ‘risky mortgage’ postcodes

As interest rates rise, mortgages in these postcodes may be at the highest risk of default

The Guardian - UK

Michael Williams obituary

Other lives: Labour housing councillor for almost 20 years who championed tenants in the London borough of Wandsworth

Evening Standard

Renting in London: the desperate battle to rent homes in the capital’s hottest district

Prices are soaring for would-be tenants in this south-west London borough — and people are making ever-snappier decisions

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Daily Mirror

Police warn 'do not approach' burglar who ESCAPED prison van and fled on transport

Kwami Richards, 42, escaped from the van outside Brixton Police Station in South London at 2pm yesterday - police chased him into Brixton Underground Station where he jumped on a train

Evening Standard

A Lidl in Knightsbridge? Discount supermarket eyes new central London stores

Currently, Lidl’s Totternham Court Road shop is its only location within two-and-a-half miles of Charing Cross

Evening Standard

Meet the hipster developers fighting to build boutique new homes on car parks and small plots around London

Catering to an affluent design-minded crowd, these next-generation developers believe that craft and sustainability can be financially viable

Evening Standard

Virtual ward discharge service saves more than 2,000 hospital bed days in south west London

A digital initiative to free up space at hospitals has helped the NHS save more than 2,000 hospital bed days in south west London.

The Guardian - UK

‘Every square inch monetised’ – is Battersea Power Station now a playground for the super rich?

Its rooftop ‘villas’ are £8m, its shops include Rolex and Cartier – and its affordable housing figure is just 9%. We go inside the £9bn, no-expense-spared rebirth of London’s famous landmark

Evening Standard

Wandsworth parking inspectors end strike after agreeing 11.5% pay rise

Parking attendants in Wandsworth have ended their summer of on-off strike actio

Irish Mirror

Niall Horan spotted at GAA match as local club pick up rare championship title

Wandsworth Gaels, of which Horan was formerly a member of, picked up their first London Junior Football title in the clubs history.

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