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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Westminster council - The Untold Story

What each party is promising in the Westminster council election

Labour, Conservatives, Reform and the Greens are all standing 54 candidates across the borough’s 18 wards

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Fresh turmoil for Liz Truss as her £500,000 Mayfair private members' club delayed again

The ex-Prime Minister has thrown her backing behind the Leconfield, an exclusive invitation-only facility in Mayfair that has been delayed again

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'London's newest tourist attraction': Refurbished Piccadilly Circus Tube loos where it costs 80p to pee

Westminster council is spending £12.7m upgrading eight sets of public toilets

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Arrest made over 'serious sexual assault' at top London nightclub The Box

The Box in Soho could face closure at a Westminster council hearing next week

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Exclusive London nightclub where Prince Harry partied faces closure after 'sex assault on male customer'

The Box, which has been frequented by Prince Harry, Kate Moss, Rihanna and Cara Delevingne, was branded a ‘risk to the public’

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Airbnb-style lets in London face new crackdown with registration scheme to tackle abuses

EXCLUSIVE: Details of the new register of properties are due to be announced within months to catch businesses and individuals breaking a 90-night rule on renting out homes in the capital as short-term lets

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Flagship London council signs off 'borough of sanctuary' for asylum seekers plan

Westminster has the highest rate of international migration in England, with more than 20,000 residents arriving over the past two years

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Millionaire neighbours vent anger over Liz Truss’s £500k private members club in MI5’s former Mayfair offices

The ex-Prime Minister described the new club as ‘a strategic nexus for a global network of pro-growth leaders’

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Labour 'ally' of Sadiq Khan drops bombshell at Oxford Street quango launch: 'I wish this didn't exist'

‘We would rather this body didn’t exist and we weren’t here’ says Westminster council leader

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Detective dog Doris sniffs out £10k haul of illegal cigarettes and food in raids on American-style candy shops

Westminster Council has employed a dog detective to sniff out illegal goods in the latest crackdown on American-style candy stores

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£250,000 Rolls Royce hauled off Mayfair street in crackdown on illegally parked supercars

The Saudi-registered supercar was towed after Westminster Council admitted the usual practice of issuing £160 fines was not deterring rich visitors from parking badly

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Rolls-Royce towed in crackdown on ‘illegal parking’ outside five-star hotel

’The owners of the vehicles are so wealthy that fines barely register’

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Revealed: 'Unofficial' zebra crossings are putting brakes on selfish London drivers

All London boroughs urged to adopt Westminster council initiative and drive down number of road casualties

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Cannabis cookies among £9,000-worth of illegal goods seized from American candy shop in central London

The 26 tubs of CBD-laced biscuits in four different flavours were brazenly stacked on shelves in the shop in Piccadilly Circus

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Black Friday fakes: The scam sites ripping off shoppers by 'cybersquatting' prestigious London addresses

Central London tenants bombarded with unwanted parcels, angry letters and aggrieved consumers knocking at their door after sites selling fake designer goods used their addresses as a front

The Independent UK

Defence Secretary John Healey underpaid tax on second home after council ‘error’

Mr Healey underpaid around £1,500 in tax after an “administrative error” by the local authority, Westminster Council

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Immigration enforcement officers raided Sadaf, in Westbourne Grove, following a ‘tip off’

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Tory crisis in London as second councillor defects to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK at flagship town hall

Alan Mendoza on Wednesday joined Laila Cunningham as Reform’s second representative on Westminster Council

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Leaseholder fury at £100k bills for new windows during major works beset by delays

Westminster City Council is consulting on refurbishing the final five tower blocks on the Hallfield Estate in Bayswater

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£100 on-the-spot fines for Lime and Forest in new crackdown on e-bikes abandoned on pavements

EXCLUSIVE: Westminster council opens new front in battle against pavement clutter by emailing fixed penalty tickets direct to e-bike firms

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People living near Walker’s of Whitehall claim their lives could be ‘endangered’ by ‘intimidating’ and ‘intoxicated’ customers

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Row breaks out over £1.5million cycle lane that would be alternative to blocked-off Oxford Street

Tory councillors want Westminster council to pause cycleway through Marylebone until impact of mayor’s traffic ban becomes clear

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Haul of 'mystery meat' that posed virus risk seized in London's China Town

More than 300kg of suspect meat and dozens of packets of banned Chinese pork noodles have been confiscated by inspectors

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Illegal erectile dysfunction drugs and antidepressants sold in West End souvenir shops

Sachets and blister packs of imported sex drug Kamagra were seized by Westminster Council during visits to four shops

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London Trocadero to be transformed into two-storey casino and restaurant

Planning permission was granted by officers at Westminster Council on September 30, subject to conditions

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