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Lime axes speed limits for Deliveroo riders
Plus: How to end the tube strikes • Did a London school really ban ham sandwiches? • Who's reclaiming lost sex toys from TfL? • Was a Waymo really lost on Waterloo Bridge?
Are goats being sacrificed in this Hackney office?
Live animals dragged into a trendy east London building and never seen again • Fire rituals in London cemeteries • Bones left by strangers' graves • What is going on?
Mozilla revokes Firefox signing key after unencrypted copy lands in GitHub
Audit logs found no unexpected visitors, but release verification still needs an update
Your Borough
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Wandsworth built 40 years of politics on the lowest council tax in England. This week the bill came due
Both parties had the figures a year ago. Whitehall set most of the rise and the council chose the rest. One councillor said so
How Houdini made Croydon churn with his staged escape act
CROYDON CHRONICLES: Croydon’s Music Halls attracted some of the world’s most famous acts in the early 20th Century, including the man reckoned to be the greatest escapologist of all time, as DAVID MORGAN explains Memory is a wonderful gift. The …
Ealing Common drugs operation sees man charged over 47 wraps of crack and heroin
A man has been charged with drug supply offences after police said they found 47 wraps of crack cocaine and heroin during a three-day plain-clothes operation in and around Ealing Common earlier this month.
Martin Abrams on 100 days of Green-led Lambeth: ‘We will stand with the local community – because we are the local community’
The tradition of judging a new administration by its first 100 days dates back to Roosevelt’s New Deal in 1933 when the incoming US president inherited the Great Depression. Lambeth’s …
A passion for discovery
Rachel Burden from Enfield and Southgate Lifelong Learning on how the group is expanding people’s horizons
COUNCIL NEWS: Leader of Havering Council responds to Government’s announcement of additional £6.75million funding for Havering
The Leader of Havering Council has welcomed additional Government funding. It comes after the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) announced extra money for Councils in England already receiving Exceptional Financial Support, to...
Style
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OnlyFans, Katie Price and The Sopranos: Inside a fever dream fashion show
At London Fashion Week, the Ukrainian designer Natasha Zinko staged a blockbuster show inside a panopticon, with chaotic clothes and unhinged guest appearances
UK News & Comment
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As White House shields the AI gold rush, Trump family and other allies strike it rich – with few guardrails
It’s not clear that financial interests are driving White House policy, but they run parallel even as resistance mounts Donald Trump ’s sons, through a series of AI -linked defense and technology ventures, have picked up a $620m Pentagon loan, a Marine Corps robotics contract and…
Billionaire Reform donor Delo’s crypto firm faces US court action over Black Thursday turmoil
Billionaire Reform donor Delo’s crypto firm faces US court action over Black Thursday turmoil
Existentialism for the end of the world
When no one is coming to save us, we still have to choose how to live
