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What's hiding on London's most contested hill?
The battle for Shooter’s Hill has raged for two millennia, and is still finding new frontiers.
The east London river bandit
Paul Powlesland has the press skills of Alistair Campbell and the politics of Swampy. Now he's taking matters into his own hands.
Is this £770 shed a new low for London's housing market?
Plus: the Cold War lives on in Herne Hill, the capital's buses turn into health hazards and a really good plate of noodles
Palantir cleared 183,000 patients from one hospital's waiting list. Or did it?
Chelsea and Westminster Trust claimed the tech giant’s software helped it clear a patient backlog, even as its actual waiting list was rising fast
It's the river's first official swim spot. So why is Thames Water threatening the 'Costa del Ham'?
Locals fought for clean water. Now they're battling a sewage recycling scheme.
Soho brings back al fresco dining as Khan blasts 'joyless NIMBYs'
Plus: Hampstead becomes a hot-weather warzone, the Thames is flooded with E. coli and a perfectly air-conned pub
‘Ladies and Gentleman of the West, stand!’: Two days at the anti-woke Davos
At ARC, pastors, MPs and tech bros debate how to save civilisation
Playing it cool at 37°C: our quest for air con
Armed with a thermometer and the mayor's Cool Spaces map, we walked the city to find out how to chill out
Mini-casinos are coming to your local high street
And it's almost impossible to stop them. Why? We mapped out the scale of the problem and went on a hunt for answers
London’s landmark museum finally has an opening date
Plus: the desperate bid to save Brixton Market, the capital gets toasty and the perfect pub to watch the footie in
'I hope I live long enough to see someone behind bars'
Nine years after Grenfell, survivor Antonio Roncolato discusses that horrifying night — and his tireless quest for justice
Super-scale recycling centre fires are the new normal. Why?
The inside story of how 2,000 tonnes of burning waste almost shut down the city