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First look: Inside Vogue’s 2025 Festive Calendar, worth over £1,600

Spoiler alert! This year’s lineup includes a thoughtful selection of wellness and beauty essentials, as well as a few must-have accessories

Evening Standard

London’s most controversial mayor? Inside the complex world of Lutfur Rahman: power struggles, corruption…and popularity

Struck off as a solicitor and once banned from standing in elections, Lutfur Rahman remains a divisive figure

Evening Standard

‘I hit the boom operator’s car with an arrow. He was inside’: how we made Robin of Sherwood

‘We’d invite famous actors to guest star for a fee topped at £3,000. “Come and have some fun!” we’d say – and nobody ever turned us down’

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Commissioners announced to oversee cash-strapped Birmingham City Council

The largest local authority in Europe admitted last month that it could not balance its books and issued a section 114 notice.

The Independent UK

City tows 242 drivers on first night of winter parking ban. ‘This is horrible, horrible,’ driver says

The yearly tradition seems to always catch people off guard. Many of them complained the ban was unfair, the signs were inadequate and the penalties too steep.

Chicago Sun-Times

Punters hold future of WA's struggling country racing as TAB, Sky Racing broadcast bush races nationwide

With shortages of horses, jockeys and volunteers, these country race tracks are battling to survive. Now racing officials are gambling on a last-ditch bid to keep them alive.

ABC News

Cheetham Hill charity honoured with Queen's Voluntary Award for 30 years of improving wellbeing in North Manchester

Hopewell encourages healthy living and reduces social exclusion in the communities that make up North Manchester

Manchester Evening News

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Lutfur Rahman: Inside the shock return of Tower Hamlets’ divisive mayor

After a major scandal in 2015 Lutfur Rahman was removed from his role as mayor of the borough in which he’s just re-taken power. What happens next? David Bond investigates

Evening Standard

Lutfur Rahman: Disgraced Tower Hamlets winner ‘must deliver on his promises’

Lutfur Rahman must now “deliver on the promises he made” after his shock victory in Tower Hamlets, its outgoing mayor said.

Evening Standard

Labour loses Tower Hamlets to Lutfur Rahman’s Aspire party

It comes after Mr Rahman, a convicted fraudster, made a shock political comeback by taking the mayoralty back from Labour.

Evening Standard

Labour loses east London council to Aspire party

The Aspire Party, founded by Lutfur Rahman, gained Tower Hamlets Council from Labour after winning 24 of the 45 seats.

The Independent UK

Controversial former Tower Hamlets mayor back in power in London borough

Lutfur Rahman was previously forced to step down after an election court found him guilty of corrupt and illegal practices.

The Independent UK

Lutfur Rahman elected mayor of Tower Hamlets despite five-year ban for ‘corrupt and illegal practices’

Labour nemesis back in power in east London despite ‘corrupt and illegal practices’

The Independent UK

Lutfur Rahman wins Tower Hamlets mayor vote after five-year ban

Politician was kicked out of office in 2015 after election tribunal found him guilty of vote-rigging

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London elections 2022: Shock as Aspire Party take Tower Hamlets from Labour

Londoners headed to the polls on May 5. Joe Talora has the lowdown on the vote in Tower Hamlets

Evening Standard

Labour faces fight with disgraced ex-mayor

Following a ban for electoral fraud, Lutfur Rahman is standing again in Tower Hamlets. Rachael Burford talks to locals ahead of the vote

Evening Standard

Rahman accused of smearing rival over ‘poor treatment’ of minorities

Lutfur Rahman was re-elected as the borough’s mayor in 2014

The Independent UK

Make landlords get a licence and punish them for unsafe homes, renters’ unions tell councils

Councils are being urged to crack down on bad landlords renting out unsafe homes

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