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Cleaning the dark: What goes on in the Underground after the last train
Every night, workers scrub a mixture of hair, skin and metal filings from the walls of the Tube. Miles Ellingham joins them for a shift.
The Elizabeth Line promised a smooth and seamless service. What went wrong?
How London's shiniest mega-project got wracked with delays, cancellations and software malfunctions
Your Monday briefing: Is London reaching new levels of dirtiness?
Also, 16th century graffiti in the Tower of London and the Mayor of Newham takes her own council to court
Dog Days At Romford: London’s last surviving greyhound track
Romford Stadium will soon be the last dog racing facility within the M25. Miles Ellingham visits the outpost and traces the sport’s controversial history.
Which London borough started building just one affordable home last year?
Plus: Is there trouble brewing at the Science Museum?
They wrote ‘Why I’m Leaving London’ essays, but did exiting the capital solve their problems?
Imogen West-Knights caught up with authors of viral leaving London essays and videos, years after the fact
Exclusive: How a Labour MP evicted a homeless mother of two
"I don't even know what is going to happen to me. They could move me to Birmingham."
The Yellow Bittern and the conservatism of London’s restaurant scene
‘Almost every buzzy launch of a bar or restaurant in the city features a painted sign with a faux-patina or a Victorian scrubbed-wood panel’
Your Monday briefing: Mafia killings and the safety of London's buses
Plus: Can a London startup solve the housing crisis? Probably not...
‘Nobody knows what’s down there’: The endless fire poisoning a community
It used to be an underground drug bunker. Now a field on the edge of London is so dangerous the fire service refuses to enter it and local children are choking on its fumes
Does Sadiq Khan have a plan for Oxford Street?
Candy stores, tourist traps and the councillor who says of City Hall's dramatic new proposal: 'They don't know what they're doing'
Would you have stayed in London's 'tight knit' communities?
New research challenges our nostalgia for a world where family stayed close and neighbours were on hand to lend a pint of milk
Is London becoming more affordable to rent in?
Plus: How “faint giggles” almost ended a London pub’s late night licence
Goldsmiths realism: how London’s radical university ate itself
‘There is no shortage of TikToks of crying students warning prospective enrollees to go somewhere else’