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2 years

Truss claims she is the first British PM to attend a Comprehensive school, which isn’t quite true. Gordon Brown was.

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Electoral monitors have today warned of alleged voting irregularities in Tower Hamlets. Monitors at polling stations had concerns over intimidating crowds, high levels of attempted family voting, and personation, where a person assumes the identity of someone else to cast a vote

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New: Labour MP Sam Tarry has instructed top law firm Carter-Ruck to fight the party over his reselection

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Sadiq Khan has blocked plans for the MSG Sphere in Stratford. Mayor spokesman: 'London is open to investment from around the world...but the Mayor has seen independent evidence that shows the current proposals would result in an unacceptable negative impact on local residents.'

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Firefighters tackling a blaze at New Providence Wharf in Tower Hamlets this morning. Talks to remove the flammable ACM cladding the private development is covered in have been going on for more than two years now

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Comedian Ed Gamble has been forced to remove a hot dog from his London show Tube posters after TfL chiefs told him it fell foul of their healthy eating rules

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Greggs is preparing for a court fight with Westminster Council. Last year the baker was refused permission to trade hot food after 11pm when police argued it could lead to a wave of “crime and disorder”

Greggs prepares for legal fight against late night Leicester Square sausage roll ban

Greggs is preparing for a court fight against its ban on selling late night sausage rolls and bacon baps at its flagship Leicester Square store.

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2 years

The report by Democracy Volunteers has put Tower Hamlets' mayor Lutfur Rahman at the centre of a fresh voting row after it highlighted “significant challenges to the electoral process” during his landslide victory in borough's elections on May 5

New questions over voting and ‘intimidating’ crowds in Tower Hamlets election

Tower Hamlets mayor Lutfur Rahman was at the centre of a fresh voting row on Friday after a report highlighted “significant challenges to the electoral process” during his resounding victory in...

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8 months

Breaking: Tower Hamlets council has reached a deal with refuse workers. It means rubbish in the East End will start being collected again from tomorrow

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2 years

Observers said they witnessed half a dozen occasions when people presented screenshots of polling cards on their phones in order to vote and added that some voters said they didn’t know their name and address.

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Tory councillor @going4golds said there "needs to be a full investigation by the police and Electoral Commission into voting practices in Tower Hamlets at the most recent local elections."

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Green Cllr for Stratford Nate Higgins, said: 'This application was always completely inappropriate. The 25 year advertising consent the applicants demanded show they were not interested in contributing to our cultural scene – only bombarding residents with endless advertising.”

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There were also extremely high levels of attempted family voting observed, where family members are accompanied or directed by relatives on how to vote. Full report by @DJBond6873

New questions over voting and ‘intimidating’ crowds in Tower Hamlets election

Tower Hamlets mayor Lutfur Rahman was at the centre of a fresh voting row on Friday after a report highlighted “significant challenges to the electoral process” during his resounding victory in...

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2 years

New: The Charity Commission will not investigate Prince Charles' charity for accepting £1million in donations from the family of Osama Bin Laden. A spokesman for the Watchdog said: “Based on current information, this historic donation does not appear to be unlawful."

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New: Former England cricketer Monty Panesar is set to stand for George Galloway's Workers Party in London at the general election. He'll contest Ealing Southall, where Labour MP Virendra Sharma commands a majority of more than 16,000 votes

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🚨NEW: The Government has stepped in to prevent Sadiq Khan torpedoing plans for the MSG Sphere in east London. Michael Gove is considering whether to call in the Mayor's decision to block the development

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7 months

Newham has become the first council to successfully prosecute a building owner for failing to remove Grenfell-style flammable cladding from a tower block. Chaplair Ltd did not meet a deadline to take the dangerous covering off the 71-flat Lumiere high rise in Romford Road

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9 months

EXC: Mayor of Hackney Philip Glanville has been suspended by Labour today after a photo of him of him partying with a paedophile former councillor emerged

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🚨It's official. The Government has this evening called in Sadiq Khan's decision to block the Stratford Sphere. It means ministers could overrule the Mayor and grant permission for the huge, domed concert venue to be built

MSG Sphere developers say scheme still dead despite ministers 'calling in' rejection

Plans for a huge orb-like structure in Stratford were rejected by Sadiq Khan

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2 years

She is the first Tory PM to attend a comp. Theresa May, John Mayor, Margaret Thatcher & Edward Heath all went to state grammars

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3 years

Tower Hamlets has the highest number of buildings with dangerous cladding in country. As of February almost 300 blocks in the borough were registered for the Building Safety Fund

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5 years

Yesterday some idiot scrawled “Speak English” over a few walls and fences in Walthamstow. But it seems someone’s been out overnight to make a few edits ❤️

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The Ilford South MP said he had evidence of “rule-breaking, voter fraud... and the dangerous whipping up of community tensions to undermine the democratic reselection process” after he was triggered last month

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🚨Tube strike off! RMT has suspended the planned tube strike, due to start on Monday, following talks with TfL. Planned action from Monday to Thursday will no longer go ahead. Mick Lynch: “Following further positive discussions today, the negotiations…

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2 years

Councillor Kabir Ahmed, a member of Mr Rahman's Aspire party, said: “Aspire maintained strict discipline and oversight over its campaigners and ensured that they were familiar with the legal frame-work."

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Carter-Ruck has demanded a halt to the reselection process. In a letter to Labour General Secretary David Evans, solicitors said: 'There should clearly be no prospect of this process continuing further until the very serious matters raised by our client have been fully resolved'

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After three years covering councils I’m very excited to be joining the @EveningStandard Lobby team as a political reporter tomorrow. Can’t wait to get started working in Westminster alongside excellent political editor @nicholascecil and deputy @DJBond6873

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Story here:

Labour MP hires top law firm to fight party over reselection battle

The Ilford South MP has instructed top solicitors Carter-Ruck to demand a halt to reselection process

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@RachaelBurford

10 months

Tory staffers at the Uxbridge & South Ruislip count frantically trying to track down MP David Simmonds who “may have forgotten” he was meant to appear on Newsnignt

Ashley Cowburn

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Apparently the Conservative MP due to appear on @BBCNewsnight is stuck in traffic.

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Latest figures from the Building Safety Fund show the distribution of money to pay for dangerous cladding removal has virtually ground to a halt @EOCS_Official @TowerHamletsJL

‘Painfully slow’ progress on cladding crisis as £40m spent in 1 month

Ministers today faced accusations of making "painfully slow" progress towards tackling the cladding crisis after just £40 million was handed out from a multibillion-pound government safety fund in a...

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Labour candidate @unmeshdesai , who is way out in front, jokes he was willing to give a box each to the candidates in second, third and fourth place if it would get us out quicker

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Newham council has this week approved plans to refurbish the Old Spotted Dog in Forest Gate, believed to once have been a hunting lodge used by Henry VIII. It's set to be reopened as a pub, restaurant, function room and 68 bedroom hotel

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2 years

Today’s Evening Standard front page. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe finally on her way home after six years imprisoned in Iran

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3 years

Reason for the delay here at the City & East - staff found three unopened boxes of votes after everything else had been counted 😬

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3 years

Piccadilly Circus

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7 years

A valiant effort

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Green Cllr for Stratford @natehiggins : “Calling in the MSG Sphere application is a decision that nobody has asked for... "Residents deserve better than a massive advertising billboard the size of Big Ben and the London Eye being imposed on a residential community.”

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Tower Hamlets council is set to become the first in the country to pay children to stay in school. Teens from low income families in the borough will get £200 a term if they come from households that earn less than £25k

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3 years

Seems to have been a big turnout for the Tower Hamlets Leaseholders for Justice (THJL) protest which took place on the Isle of Dogs today following the fire at Ballymore's New Providence Wharf on Friday

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Tory London Mayor candidate @Councillorsuzie on the Sphere: “I am surprised Sadiq Khan blocked the dome. Turning down the opportunity to project his face across London is the type of vacuous PR stunt he would normally love."

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4 years

Tower Hamlets council confirms Victoria Park is closed completely until further notice because of visitors failing to stay two metres apart today

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3 years

Tower Hamlets council is being taken to court over plans to move the 400-year-old Bethnal Green Mulberry Tree

Dame Judi backs High Court battle to save East End’s oldest tree

Campaigners backed by Dame Judi Dench are taking a council to the High Court in an attempt to save what is said to be the East End’s oldest tree.

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Tory mayoral candidate Susan Hall having a bit of a car crash on her @LBC phone in. So far she’s been unable to say who owns Hammersmith Bridge, how much a bus fare costs or how much a police officer is paid 😬

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3 years

Ealing is the latest borough to rip up plans for low traffic neighbourhoods as protests continue to flare over the schemes

Ealing follows Harrow by ripping up clean air road blocks

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4 months

NEW: Home Office declares Hizb ut-Tahrir a terrorist organisation. The Islamist group urged chants of "jihad" during London protests last year

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@natehiggins The @StopMSGSphere campaign: “It is outrageous that they have the audacity to call in this application when Sadiq Khan has made a sound decision based on expert advice and planning law. The Sphere would cause signifiant harm to residents …We have won once and we will win again.”

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2 years

The Met has handed out more than 17,000 fines to lockdown rule breakers. 113 Londoners faced £10,000 penalties for holding gatherings of 30 people or more

Partygate: Met police fined 17,800 Londoners for lockdown breaches

The Met Police has again been urged to investigate allegations of parties in Downing Street as it was revealed officers had fined more than 17,800 Londoners for lockdown rule breaches.

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9 months

The photo shows Mr Glanville at a Eurovision final party with Thomas Dewey on May 14, 2022 - two weeks after Dewey was arrested in a National Crime Agency raid on his home

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5 years

Was amazing to see nearly 130 Local Democracy Reports all in one place at BBC Salford today, celebrating the successes of the scheme. And proud to have come away with these at the first BBC #LDReporter awards

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2 years

Fair play to the person on my estate who spent NYE marking out dog poo with homemade flags

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4 years

Councils are calling for emergency powers to tackle shopkeepers who hike prices unnecessarily during the coronavirus pandemic

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1 year

Breaking: The Treasury has suspended its relationship with the CBI while sexual assault and harassment allegations in the organisation are investigated. Source said: “The Treasury has paused engagement pending outcome of investigations.”

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Deputy Conservative Party chairman and MP for Cities of London and Westminster Nickie Aiken has announced she will not be standing at the next election. She is the sixth Tory MP in the capital say they will quit at the next election

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2 months

When posters for his Hackney Empire show were sent for display on the Underground he was told they did not comply with anti-junk food policies and the sausage would need to be “removed or obscured”. So he’s swapped the banger out for a cucumber 🤣

Comedian Ed Gamble forced to change Tube poster that featured 'unhealthy' hot dog

The Off Menu podcast host was pictured with a greasy, sauce-covered sausage on billboards for his show Hot Diggity Dog

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3 months

There’s growing concern in Labour about the rise of independent candidates, particularly in east London, that will stand against the party at the General Election. Labour source: ‘Leadership have been dragging their heels over Apsana for far too long…

Apsana Begum MP

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An update from me. The way in which I continue to be treated, cannot continue.

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3 years

London mayor results for City & East. Sadiq Khan unsurprisingly the runaway winner with 99,971 first preference votes

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5 years

Protesters against plans to turn the Whitechapel Bell Foundry, where Big Ben and the Liberty Bell were cast, outside Tower Hamlets town hall tonight #LDReporter

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5 years

CPS has released CCTV of the moment Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was hit over the head with an egg. Fair play to Corbyn for keeping tight hold of his plate of food throughout

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2 years

Update: Six months later the culprit is still at large and we have Jubilee edition ‘pick up your dog poo’ shaming flags

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@RachaelBurford

2 years

Fair play to the person on my estate who spent NYE marking out dog poo with homemade flags

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Almost all London boroughs now recording well over 1,000 Covid infections per 100k. In Lambeth and Wandsworth its more than 2,000. The infection rate is extraordinarily high in younger adults - 5,000 in 25 to 29 year olds in Lambeth

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4 years

Really happy to have won this award today👇🏼and congrats to @Gurdo for getting the top prize 🥇

Behind Local News

@behindlocalnews

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The #LDRS2020Awards are in: Congratulations to @Gurdo for winning LDR of the year, with wins too for @RachaelBurford , @Journojoeburn @_jessiewithani @LeighBoobyer and Tanya Fowles of @impartialrep . Details here:

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Looks like Kirkcaldy High School, which Brown attended, was selective when he was there and became a comp in 1970. But May’s government biography says she attended both comprehensive and grammar schools

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Nine police officers have been stationed at the count as Tower Hamlets implements the toughest election security measures of any council in the country

Tower Hamlets to tackle election fraud with photographic entry system

A London borough rocked by a vote-rigging scandal will implement some of the toughest security measures seen for an election count in the UK.

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Twickenham MP Munira Wilson and Richmond council deputy leader Jim Millard belt out “Don’t you want me baby” at a karaoke night during Lib Dem conference

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5 years

Good to see BBC London news reporting on @TowerHamletsNow decision to locally list 37 pubs and protect them from developers #LDReporter

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Large pro-Palestine protest outside the #SME4Labour gala in Westminster tonight, demanding that the Labour party call for a ceasefire in Gaza. They’re particularly targeting shadow foreign secretary David Lammy who is due to give a speech here tonight

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6 years

Fair play to woman who refused to leave her Wetherspoons chips behind when Victoria Station was evacuated just now

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7 months

Audience for Keir Starmer’s Labour conference speech at least twice the size of Rishi Sunak’s last week

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Downing Street confirms that Net Zero Minister Graham Stuart has flown back from #COP28 to vote on the Rwanda Bill tonight…But says he will be flying back to Dubai for the end of the climate summit later ✈️

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@RachaelBurford

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M&S absolutely furious with Gove over this decision. CEO Stuart Machin says: “After almost a century at Marble Arch, M&S is now left with no choice but to review its future position on Oxford Street on the whim of one man. It is utterly pathetic.”

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M&S' bid to demolish its flagship Oxford Street shop is rejected by Michael Gove over environmental and heritage concerns and worries about the harm to nearby landmarks, including Selfridges department store

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Tower Hamlets council has won its legal fight against the government after claiming the controversial Westferry Printworks scheme on the Isle of Dogs was approved by the Secretary of State to save developers up to £50million

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2 years

Labour seem slightly worried about their prospects of staying in power in Tower Hamlets now. Sources say they always knew it was going to be tough, but might have underestimated just how much support Lutfur Rahman still has in the borough #LocalElections2022

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Richmond Park Lib Dem @sarahjolney1 on the PopCons: “Just like Neighbors, this Tory soap opera feels stuck in the past with rebooted villains and recycled plot lines. “The country is ready to move on from Jacob Rees-Mogg's bizarre Victorian era policies."

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@EveningStandard

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Holly Valance blasts left-wing ideas as "crap" and says she wants Jacob Rees-Mogg to be Prime Minister The ex-Neighbours actor, married to a billionaire, made the comments at the launch of the right wing Popular Conservatives movement in London Read:

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The Sunday Times reported that the Prince of Wales Charitable Fund (PWCF) had accepted money from the terrorist’s half-brothers

Bin Laden family’s £1m puts Prince Charles and Charity Commission in the spotlight

The charities watchdog was accused of giving the Prince of Wales’s charity preferential treatment yesterday and urged to investigate donations from the family

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More than 400 London Tories will stand as “Local Conservatives” in the upcoming elections in what has been branded an attempt to distance themselves from the woes of the national party

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The Standard View: Why Sadiq Khan is our pick for Mayor of London

In the run-up to the 2015 general election, former prime minister Lord Cameron famously compared third terms to a popular advertising slogan for Shredded Wheat, suggesting that “two are wonderful but...

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6 years

Packed planning meeting in Newham. Most people here from the @SaveTheEarlE12 campaign which is opposing the flats plans for the Grade II-listed Manor Park pub

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2 years

Evening Standard had to stop the press this afternoon, managing to get this on 100,000 copies 💦

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The Conservatives lost their last seat on Richmond council after the Lib Dems took Hampton North. The borough was not that long ago a Tory stronghold. Twickenham MP @munirawilson : “The Conservative party has now been wiped out in their former London heartland…

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Lutfur Rahman, who was removed from office when he was found guilty of electoral fraud in 2015, has confirmed he will be running for mayor of Tower Hamlets again at the local elections in May

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Rachael Burford

@RachaelBurford

6 years

Really excited to be starting a new role as local democracy reporter for the Evening Standard and BBC tomorrow - covering all things @TowerHamletsNow , @NewhamLondon & @lbbdcouncil

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Absolutely love this 🤣 Fish Universe has put a sign up insisting it is “not associated with Fish World and does not promote, endorse or support this shop” The owner of Fish World described his neighbour as ‘jealous’ that he has the bigger fish empire

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3 years

Poplar and Limehouse MP Apsana Begum today found not guilty of three charges relating to housing fraud. The prosecution was brought by Tower Hamlets council, where the ex husband she accused in court of ‘controlling and coercive’ behaviour is a councillor.

Apsana Begum MP

@ApsanaBegumMP

3 years

My statement following today’s verdict:

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Tory source: “We didn’t call the recount in Uxbridge”. 👀

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2 years

Cleaners were wiping red wine off the walls of No10 on Dec 19, 2020 - the same day the Prime Minister announced London was going into Tier 4 restrictions because Covid was spreading so rapidly. Those living in Tier 4 were banned from meeting family & friends over Christmas

Hannah Al-Othman

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Sue Gray is damning, but the lack of respect for cleaning and security staff makes me sick.

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The deal includes more paid holiday, a £750 one off payment and a guarantee that agency workers can become full time staff

Piles of rubbish to be cleared as bin collection strike called off

Festering piles of rotting rubbish have been piling up in the streets of Tower Hamlets since refuse workers launched strike action over a week ago

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9 years

Surrealist moment of the election so far. Green candidate Clare Keogh performs an Irish jig #KingstonVotes #GE2015 http://t.co/u4HGaSuMem

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Richmond Park MP @sarahjolney1 : "Ministers must immediately use their special powers to put Thames Water into special administration and reform it into a public benefit company."

London's great stink: Sewage flows into capital's rivers for 10,000 hours last year

Thames Water customers will see a huge rise in bills this week despite sewage being pumped into London rivers for more than 9,773 hours in 2023

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2 years

Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership is under fresh scrutiny as a new poll shows his ratings for sound judgement and being good in a crisis dropping. Story by @nicholascecil

Sir Keir Starmer’s poll rating for sound judgement drops

Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership was under fresh scrutiny on Friday as a new poll showed his ratings for sound judgement and being good in a crisis dropping.

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@RachaelBurford

9 months

The Government has ordered and independent inquiry following Lucy Letby verdict   It will look at the circumstances behind the murders and attempted murders of babies at Countess of Chester Hospital, including how concerns raised by clinicians were dealt with

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London assembly candidate Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah, whose daughter Ella became the first person in the UK to have air pollution listed as a cause of death, increased the party’s votes by more than 10,000 on 2016 as well

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1 year

Haringey council has this afternoon confirmed Tough Mudder will not be held in Finsbury Park again following the damage caused by the event over the weekend @FinsParkFriends

Standard News

@standardnews

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Hundreds of people took part in gruelling obstacle courses held at the north London park across Saturday and Sunday - leaving the grass churned to thick mud

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Parts of the eighth, ninth and 10th floors of the 19 storey building are alight, London Fire Brigade said. Around 125 firefighters from Poplar, Millwall, Shadwell, Plaistow and Whitechapel stations are at the scene

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Earlier this month Dewey was sentenced to 12 months in prison, suspended for two years, after he admitted downloading “sadistic” images of children being sexually abused as well as a cache of violent pornographic photos.

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At least 150,000 people are in Hyde Park now to watch the Queen’s funeral over 8 large screens

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Public gallery spilling out into the corridor as Newham Council discuss plans to turn the Grade II-listed Canning Town Library into a Nando’s

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Dewey was arrested on April 29, 2022. He was then elected a Labour councillor on May 5. Hackney council has previously said it was informed of the NCA raid on May 13, the day before the Eurovision party took place. Labour suspended Dewey on May 16

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Excl: Scotland Yard faces fresh criticism today after it was revealed Met police officers binned evidence that a man was stalking his ex-wife a year before he murdered her with a crossbow

Crossbow killer: Damning failures by Met to protect Sana Muhammad revealed

EXCLUSIVE: Officers ignored the discovery of a ‘burglary kit’ behind Sana Muhammad’s home a year before she was murdered

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A Labour source said yesterday the party were made aware of the photograph showing Mr Glanville with Dewey. It is 'a clear contradiction of information that was previously given by Mr Glanville to us, and the media', they said.

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A karaoke singer is £2750 out of pocket after being fined by a London council for subjecting his neighbours to “terrible” renditions of Abba and Dolly Parton hits

No thank you for the music: ‘Terrible’ singer fined over Abba karaoke

Council officers said they also received complaints about renditions of Dire Straits’ Sultans of Swing and Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton’s Islands in the Stream booming from the home

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