The flamboyant founder of the Polska Duma (Polish Pride) party, which has its biggest presence in Ealing, says his candidates will "save Britain for the second time" - by cleaning up its "horrifically dirty" streets.more
A man has died and another has been injured after they were shot in northwest London. Police have launched a murder investigation after a man, believed to be in his thirties, was found with critical injuries outside Queensbury Tube station near Edgware.more
Trains could soon be running around the clock across Britain amid demands for modernised rail services, the chief executive of Network Rail has said.more
Organisers of the oldest grand slam tournament - which has also clamped down on first-round withdrawals - revealed a prize fund of £34million for the 2018 championships, up 7.6 per cent from last year.more
Sainsbury's is trialling a new fleet of electric grocery delivery bikes in south London - the first of their kind in the UK. Five zero emission bikes will deliver up to 100 orders a day from the Streatham Common store as part of the supermarket's new initiative. more
Let's build a 30 metre high dramatic memorial in Central London to the heroic Polish Pilots in the Battle of Britain 1940. Nor were the Poles invited to the British Victory Parade when the War ended. The proposed monument is a great opportunity to thank them for their sacrifice & dedication.more
Tens of thousands of rail commuters face chaos after union bosses announced a fresh batch of strikes. Services on Greater Anglia and South Western trains serving London, as well as on Arriva Rail North trains, will stage a series of walkouts in May.more
The proportion of working-age mothers with a job has risen by nearly 50% in the past four decades, a study says. The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) found the increase was behind a wider rise in the number of women in employment in the UK.more
Torrential downpours are set to batter parts of London over the weekend forcing the Met Office to issue a yellow alert for rain across a huge swathe of the south east.more
A Conservative MP and former army officer has said that sleeping rough is "a lot more comfortable" than military exercises, in a debate he led on tackling street homelessness.more
The first statue of a woman in Parliament Square was set to be unveiled today two years after a campaign to get female representation outside the Palace of Westminster began. A bronze statue of Millicent Fawcett will join eleven all-male statues including Sir Winston Churchill, Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi.more
Today is the last chance for people to enjoy the heatwave as temperatures are forecast to drop sharply tomorrow and conditions return to seasonal norms.more
Eliud Kipchoge swept to a third London Marathon victory and Vivian Cheruiyot won the event for the first time as Kenyans triumphed in sweltering conditions on Sunday.more
London's least reliable bus stops were today revealed - where fewer than one in 10 services are on time. Number crunchers say they have calculated exactly where you can wait ages for a bus only for two to turn up at once. According to the study, passengers waiting for the 153 to Angel Islington from a stop in Clerkenwell are victims of central London's least reliable bus timetable.more
Londoners have been warmed not to swim in the Thames despite soaring temperatures as forecasters predicted today could be the hottest April day since 1949.more
London homes have 'earned' as much as £117,000 more than the people who live in them over the past five years, according to a new report. Average house prices in the north-west London borough of Barnet increased by £247,000 in five years.more
