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A London court on Tuesday ordered a former curator at the British Museum accused of stealing hundreds of artefacts to provide the museum with a list of all items he is suspected of taking and to return those still in his possession.more

Renting is cheaper than buying in most of the UK, but not in London, according to new data from Halifax. New data from the country’s biggest mortgage lender shows that the average monthly cost to first-time buyers to own a home in the capital is now £2,241, slightly less than the monthly cost of renting.more

Londoners are set to pay average council tax bills of £2,000 per year in almost half of all boroughs, newly released projections have shown. more

Writers are being invited to apply for a “unique” new paid position which would see them charged with penning poems about London’s most famous bridges. City Bridge Foundation, the charity that owns and maintains five key London bridges including Tower Bridge, is looking for a poet-in-residence to immortalise the famous structures in verse.more

TfL has revealed when the next revamped Central line trains will enter service on the London Underground. The 1992 stock is being upgraded as part of a £500 million programme.more

A plane travelling from Thailand to the UK was forced to make a swift landing at a London airport after a passenger reportedly attempted to commit suicide in a cabin toilet. EVA Air BR67 flight from Bangkok to London had started its descent into the capital when flight attendants realised someone was occupying one of the cabin bathrooms.more

The owner of the block of flats on which Banksy painted his latest mural has said he does not plan to raise the rent but would potentially sell. Several residents in the building, in Finsbury Park, north London, said they were worried their rent would be hiked now that Banksy has confirmed the tree painting which appeared over the weekend was his.more

London is not a child-friendly city and more must be done to stem the exodus of families, the head of the country’s oldest children’s charity has warned. Dr Carol Homden, CEO of Coram, said families in the capital are under more pressure from the cost-of-living crisis than those elsewhere, and urged the government to act to make London a more affordable place for families to live.more

London’s population has “almost certainly” surged to a record high in a reversal of the ‘race for space’ during Covid. Research by think tank Centre for Cities found that Londoners’ escape to the country during Covid was modest and short-lived.more

Crowds have gathered at the site of an artwork in north London thought to be by street artist Banksy. The mural - a mass of green paint sprayed on a wall behind a cut-back tree to look like foliage, with a stencil of a person holding a pressure hose next to it - appeared on Sunday.more

Sir Keir Starmer joined Sadiq Khan on Monday as he launched his re-election campaign pledging to double his council homes target to 40,000 and trumpeting the prospect of a Labour government and mayor offering a ‘once in a generation” chance to ease London’s housing crisis.more

Clerkenwell in central London has been named as the best place to live in the capital. North Berwick in East Lothian is the overall best place to live in the UK, according to an annual list published by the Sunday Times. It described Clerkenwell as "all that's best" about life in the capital.more

Consumer rights’ group Which found that the cost of a day out to some of the capital’s most famous landmarks has soared exponentially since 1974, sometimes by several thousand percent.more

From Friday, non-compliant cars, vans and minibuses can be sent to country which is short of vehicles to transport casualties.more

A family has won £20,000 from a South London council after it blamed their “lifestyle” for a years-long damp problem that caused mould to grow on a baby’s cot. more

Train strikes may have hit a brief pause but engineering works are continuing.more

A rogue landlord who illegally converted a home into six flats has been ordered to pay more than £220,000. Pathfield Estates Ltd is required to pay £163,258 to reflect its financial benefit from breaching the enforcement notice at the property in Bounds Green.more

Hackney Council has announced the event is going “back to its roots” on Sunday September 22, with a family-focused parade celebrating the borough’s diverse communities and creative talents. The carnival was previously cancelled in 2022 as a mark of respect following the death of her late Majesty the Queen.more

Tory candidate Susan Hall has pledged to appoint a “women’s commissioner” and target sexual harassment on the Tube if she becomes mayor. Ms Hall, in a major policy announcement on Tuesday ahead of the May 2 election, outlined her determination to respond to the fears of many women walking home at night or while using public transport.more

More Uber Boats could be coming to east London during the week in a bid to improve services for residents and attract more visitors into the area. more

TfL is bringing in experts to work on replacing the ULEZ, LEZ and Congestion Charge with one fee to drive in London. The Mayor of London added that simplifying the current system comprised of many fees, with two others being added in the Blackwall and Silvertown tunnels next year, is an 'attractive prize'.more

British police said on Sunday a man had been arrested after a car crashed into the gates of Buckingham Palace in central London. Grainy images on social media showed a car at the front gates of the palace. British media quoted a witness as saying they had heard "a loud bang".more

London has become a "no-go zone for Jews" during weekend pro-Palestinian marches, the government's counter-extremism commissioner has said. Robin Simcox urged ministers to "be bolder and be willing to accept higher legal risk" when tackling extremism.more

Black taxi fares are to rise by more than double the rate of inflation from next month in the latest attempt to prevent cabbies quitting the trade. Fares will rise by an average of 8.9 per cent, at a time the CPI rate of inflation is four per cent. more

Mayor Sadiq Khan has announced that an agreement has been struck with private rail companies to axe peak fares on Fridays until May 31, under a £24million experiment to reverse the slump in passenger numbers.more