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Housing activist Terry McGrenera presents a verbal snapshot of social housing in London today. On the same day, 10th June, as the GLA’s Planning Committee met to discuss the differing views of invited guests about the current surge of tall ...

Fancy an annual salary of £4.27 million? All you have to do is get to be the chief executive of a FTSE 100 company, and you are in with a chance – as that is their average pay. It’s 15% ...

The Mayor of London Boris Johnson has outlined details of the London Curriculum, which puts the city itself at the heart of learning in the capital. He announced his scheme during a speech he made at the Education Reform Summit ...

PPL is a Good Thing. It is a non-profit making company which works on behalf of over 90,000 record companies and performers to license recorded music played in public (at pubs, nightclubs, restaurants, shops, offices and many other business types) ...

The Government has made a further £1 million available to help charitable and community organisations help people to cut their fuel bills. That’s about a penny and a half per UK resident: it’s unlikely to have a major impact. The ...

Murad Qureshi, a Labour member of the Greater London Assembly, visited Palestine in early June. He saw first hand how the Israeli Government treats Palestinian people. It is little wonder that many commentators are now calling the Israeli regime the ...

From 10-13th June, London hosted the first international summit of its kind on the question of preventing rape and sexual abuse in countries a war. Was this a serious effort to prompt political change, or a cynical fig leaf for ...

Patients and students in London’s East End are set to benefit as the UK’s first new dental school and hospital in nearly 40 years – the £78 million Royal London Dental Hospital – officially opens its doors this week. The ...

Emdad Rahman meets Mayor Tofozzul Hussain. Mayor Tofozzul Hussain is the Municipality Mayor for Beani Bazar in Sylhet. He is a popular leader in the region and his family have served Bangladesh with distinction. During Bangladesh’s 1971 war of independence, ...

“Seeing Years & Years live last year was probably the best surprise of 2013. Young Olly Alexander has the holy fire in his hands: a soulful voice with a crazy R’n’B vibe, which enables him to be simultaneously emotional and ...