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Peter Campbell overdosed on spice in his Pentonville cell. Why didn't anybody save him?
Within one year, seven men died at the 'squalid' and 'inhumane' prison. We tried to understand what went wrong.
Finally! How to kill the post-work, pre-friend hangout hour in central London
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Data centre doom comes to Brick Lane
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Step over the threshold and find hidden treasures
Will the Met's Harry Potter-themed facial recognition solve the shoplifting crisis?
As worries about unaddressed petty crime hit fever pitch, we look into the police force's efforts to clamp down on it
Lidos, lagers and LLPs: The reinvention of Canary Wharf
The financial district is selling itself as a 'Hong Kong along the Thames'. Will it succeed?
Freedom for London's basement penguins
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The body in the wheelchair: How did a troubled family get lost by the state?
A decayed corpse was found being wheeled through the centre of Walthamstow. Who was she? And who is to blame for her death?
The man behind Borough Market was an avowed socialist. So how did it become a bougie hotspot?
‘We never really liked what it became’
How mangoes became London’s hottest commodity
Delayed shipments, the war in Iran and the search for the capital’s juiciest fruit
A council celebrated blocking 867 new homes in London this week. Were they right to?
I spoke to both sides of the heated argument about the Aylesham centre. Was the proposal 'gentrification on steroids’ or a perfectly sensible plan?
Exclusive: The real reason Hammersmith Bridge is closed
How a series of engineering and council failures risked the ‘catastrophic collapse’ of one of London’s oldest bridges