20+ hour, 12+ min ago   (656+ words) A West London council left a disabled person sofa surfing after failing to inform them that it had closed their homelessness application. Hounslow Council has apologised for the mistake which left two people, referred to as X and Y in…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (1049+ words) London is far safer than it is widely perceived to be, according to an authoritative new report. The research by the Policy Institute at King's College London (KCL) debunked a series of damaging myths about the capital. It shed light…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (331+ words) Three passengers who physically removed a flasher from a Tube train will not face charges following a year-long police probe. The group reportedly forced the man off a District line train at East Ham in August last year after he…...

5+ day, 19+ hour ago   (370+ words) A fire ripped through the ground floor of a two-storey warehouse in Wembley on Sunday. Ten fire engines and some 70 firefighters were called to the scene on Alperton Lane in north London at around 2.47pm after the London Fire Brigade received…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (652+ words) Sir Sadiq Khan has had a conviction against for unpaid car tax overturned after insisting he was the victim of a “scam”. The Labour politician, 55, was prosecuted last month by the DVLA for keeping an unlicensed Nissan Micra and was…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (848+ words) An anti-Ulez protester is suspected to be behind the “scam” that saw Sir Sadiq Khan convicted and fined over an untaxed Nissan Micra. City Hall sources told the Standard there was a “big increase” in the number of vehicles being…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1012+ words) Mayor of London Lord Sadiq Khan of Tooting says he has fallen victim to a scam after he was convicted and fined for not taxing a 24-year-old Nissan Micra. The Labour politician, 55, was prosecuted last month by the DVLA for…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (265+ words) The Metropolitan Police has launched an investigation into the death of a British man in the Caribbean after a private post-mortem examination ruled his death as homicide. Andrew Donald Frederick, 47, died in Grenada on January 4 this year. His death was…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (858+ words) Mayor of London Lord Sadiq Khan has been convicted and fined in a controversial fast-track court system after being accused of not taxing a 24-year-old Nissan Micra. The Labour politician, 55, was found guilty by a magistrate last month of keeping…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (616+ words) An Uber driver is taking Transport for London to court over delays to his licence renewal, which he claims left him thousands of pounds in debt and in fear of losing his home. Julius Mugabo, 55, who has been a licensed…...