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Four London councils cover staff parking fines with taxpayers' cash

Councils in Hackney, Lewisham, Wandsworth and Croydon spent thousands on fines for their staff and contractors

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London 'sanctuary borough': Green-led council to oppose 'race-based' Home Office immigration raids

Green councillors claim the Government is targeting communities ‘on the basis of race’ and ‘intimidating workers’

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Green-led council plans to ban cooperation with Home Office on immigration raids

Exclusive: Lewisham council’s move marks first step in Greens’ plan to create a corridor of sanctuary boroughs across London

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Boy, 16, dies after being hit by a car in Lewisham as man arrested on suspicion of drug driving

An 18-year-old man was also arrested at the scene on suspicion of dangerous driving as boy fatally injured

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Green London councillor apologises for 'coconuts' comment as David Lammy calls out party's 'racist language'

‘I genuinely apologise for using the term and to anyone I offended, it was not appropriate’ - Hau-Yu Tam

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London borough with highest number of e-scooter and e-bike fires inside homes

Some 20 fires in the same south London borough were ‘positively’ linked to e-scooters and e-bikes

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London councils in legal challenge over affordable housing quota cut

A High Court action has been launched by Hackney, Tower Hamlets and Lewisham councils.

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London councils launch legal action against Sadiq Khan over slashing of affordable housing

Tower Hamlets, Hackney and Lewisham launch High Court action against Mayor of London over plans to cut affordable housing targets

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Controversial Green candidate wins Lewisham by-election after backlash over social media posts

Esther Lie won the Lewisham council seat with 1,340 votes - 10 more than Labour’s Alex Brooks who came in second

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London tower block voted ‘worst’ new building in UK

The Filigree, a controversial housing development in Lewisham, has jointly been crowned the UK’s worst new build

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Pictured: Woman found dead at home in Lewisham after 'welfare check' as man charged with murder

Barbara McCann, 47, was found dead at home in Catford Hill by officers responding to concerns about her welfare

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Two charged with murder of 'devoted' father who died after assault outside Lewisham nightclub

Taiwo Ekerin, 41, died six days after suffering a serious head injury during an altercation on Lewisham High Street

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New Green Mayor of London borough hikes salary by almost £5,000 despite vowing to cut pay before election

Lewisham Mayor Liam Shrivastava vowed to take a 20% pay cut but instead hiked his wage by £4,832 and said 20% would be donated to ‘food justice initiatives’

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London Green Party by-election candidate apologises for 'rapey Indians' post

Esther Lie said of the now-deleted post from 2013: ‘It is clearly inappropriate and I apologise’

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London Green councillor who called David Lammy 'coconut' given town hall 'healing and sanctuary' job

Hau-Yu Tam was made cabinet member for ‘sanctuary and healing’ on Lewisham council

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Local elections 2026: All the London results so far

Some 1,817 London council seats are up for grabs with mayoral races in Croydon, Hackney, Lewisham, Newham and Tower Hamlets

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Pro-Palestine marchers fear there could be clampdown on demonstrations

Michael Coulston, of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, said: ‘I think the authorities will always try to use any excuse to try and prevent protest.’

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The former Apprentice star running to be mayor of a south London borough

Kayode Damali is an independent candidate and professional speaker using his social media platforms to power his mayoral campaign

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South London residents accuse council of 'fly-tipping' after uncollected rubbish torn apart by foxes

Locals are in a long-standing dispute with Lewisham Council over rubbish regularly not being collected

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London shoplifting convictions surge as new technology boosts crackdown on thieves

Technology allowing retailers to submit reports and CCTV footage instantly has been piloted in areas like Lewisham and central London since January

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Second London Green Party election candidate quits after sharing conspiracy theories about Jewish people

Bernard Mani, who was due to stand in Lewisham on May 7, also allegedly tore down balloons put up in solidarity with Israeli children kidnapped by Hamas

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More London Labour councillors defect to Greens as Keir Starmer’s party faces local elections crisis

The move by Lewisham councillors Tauseef Anwar and Rudi Schmidt means more than 50 local Labour representatives have joined the Greens since Sir Keir Starmer became Prime Minister

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Ten years of acrimony finally at an end as Millwall get a new lease of life

Transformative 999-year deal is a massive moment in the history of the club and the violent cultural push-pull of London

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Take Back Power activists stage nationwide shoplifting spree to give to 'those in need'

Activists loaded trolleys at Sainsbury’s in the Lewisham Centre with non-perishable goods to ‘redistribute’ to the community

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London travel news LIVE: M25 chaos as motorway shut in both directions after lorry crash takes out power lines

Crash has taken out a power line and requires immediate attendance by engineers across both carriageways to make safe

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