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Charles Wright: As Thames Water drowns in debt, what will happen next?
Thames Water is in a mess, primarily of its own making. And next month looks like crunch time for the future of the ...
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John Vane’s London Stories: Comic turns, Camden
An autumn night in Camden Town, where, long ago, Kilburn and The High Roads played Dingwalls and a famous pet shop sold ...
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Next stage approaches for Hackney Wick’s Yard theatre
To get to the Yard theatre, emerge from Hackney Wick station on what we now call the Mildmay line, scratch your head, look ...
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Dave Hill: Don’t grow tired of caring about London’s housing emergency
In theory, Britain’s Housing Ombudsman is not one of London’s emergency services: the office’s primary role is to resolve ...
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Lewis Baston: Labour’s ‘Super Thursday’ by-election holds can’t disguise a slide
Thursday 28 November saw a Super Thursday of London borough by-elections. There were five vacancies in four wards in three ...
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Charles Wright: London’s net zero target is at risk. What should happen next?
When the government was told in July by the independent Climate Change Committee (CCC) that it was falling well short of its ...
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Dave Hill: Can a ‘liveable’ London street become a forbidding precinct?
Don’t yell at me. Don’t take offence. I’m just asking some questions in need of carefully-considered answers. My starting ...
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Richard Derecki: Lasting intrigue of London’s most notorious suburban spies
Between 1954 and 1961, operating from an unassuming bungalow at 45 Cranley Drive, Ruislip, Lona and Morris Cohen smuggled out ...