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Move over Walthamstow! Are these east London's last two property hotspots?

As buyers are priced out of E17, it’s all about Highams Park and South Woodford

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Best-value commuter towns within 30 minutes of central London

Looking to avoid the Tube? This week’s strikes are putting towns with speedy train links in the spotlight

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Hidden London: Goldsboro Books, a creaky literary Eden deep in Covent Garden

This Central London bookshop is home to a library of rare treasures, it’s spine-tingling, says Vicky Jessop

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Hidden London: The Bus Cafe, Waterloo

Though primarily for bus workers, the welcome is warm and salutary, somewhere for everyone to fill up on the cheap, says Josh Barrie

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London first-time buyers: three desirable areas with starter flats under the new stamp duty price cap

As the price of a home eligible for first-time buyer stamp duty relief falls to £500k, here are three of the loveliest London areas with starter home prices that still qualify

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My Home with Idris Khan and Annie Morris: 'As artists, we love colour'

Modern art mixed with cosy fabrics works a treat in the artist couple’s Islington home

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'We ripped it out and made it our own': at home with Charlotte Beecham

The Charlotte Simone founder reveals how she transformed a rundown Primrose Hill townhouse into a calm, quiet sanctuary

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'Grenfell, Dagenham... how many more?': Inside London's shameful cladding crisis

Today’s Grenfell report has called for urgent work on fire safety, but victims — and those still trapped in London’s 1,300 cladded buildings — say there isn’t time to lose. Katie Strick reports

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How we buy in London now: Londoners at three price points share their journey on the property ladder

Each property sale has its own story. From terrifying pitfalls to magical endings, three sets of London buyers share their experiences

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Henri review: what's this restaurant's raison d'être? Je ne sais pas

There’s an awful lot to be delighted by at Henri, says David Ellis, but it lacks va va voom

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The Bear star Lionel Boyce: "This show finds ways to push TV – it takes big swings"

Despite all the attention around Jeremy Allen White, Lionel Boyce puts the success of The Bear down to its willingness to “take big swings”, which makes it the most electrifying show around

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How saunas became the new pub — and the hottest London openings to know

Sticky floors and overpriced drinks are out, fluffy white robes are in. Sauna sessions are the capital’s new favourite way to let off steam

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The Serpentine's future is bright (and orange) - just bring a book!

The new design is the latest in the annual architecture showcase.

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Inside author Melanie Cantor's 'jewel box' Art Deco flat in Brondesbury Park

Melanie Cantor was just finishing her second novel when the opportunity to buy a pied-a-terre with an intriguing design history landed in her inbox

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Jimi Famurewa reviews Crispin at Studio Voltaire: Weapons-grade sex appeal finds unlikely home in Clapham

Amid an unforgiving sea of identikit brunch spots and Simmons bars, Crispin feels like something quietly seismic and subtly miraculous

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Birdnesting: meet the Londoners sharing a home with their exes to keep their family together after divorce

Why some exes are making co-parenting work for them and easing disruption by keeping the family home alongside a smaller property

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Jimi Famurewa reviews Camille: Even on a night off the booze, new-wave bistro is utterly intoxicating

Camille is a supremely creative and confident opening with cool quality and enrapturing lightness of touch, says Jimi Famurewa

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'My £1,600 a month countryside rental was a disaster... six months in I’m racing back to London’

At a crossroads in life, Harriet Minter quit the capital with her dog, Blue — but her rural retreat came with its own set of problems

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Meet the family leading the psychedelic revolution

Drug campaigner Amanda Feilding has been at the forefront of psychedelic science for half a century. Now her sons are joining the firm. Will the Beckley research empire change the way we treat mental ill health asks Alexandra Jones

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What next for the AI revolution? Inside Google DeepMind, the world’s biggest AI company

Everyone laughed politely when I asked whether AI might, in the end, kill us all — everyone apart from one researcher from a US-based thinktank who told me that, as a pessimist, he believes there is about a “20 per cent chance that AI poses an existential threat to life.”

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Jimi Famurewa reviews Donia: Welcome to London's best new restaurant

Astonishing Filipino is faithful to tradition, but dazzles with its ambition and acuity

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A year in reviews: the best restaurants of 2023, according to Evening Standard critics

The last 12 months have been a whirlwind of eating. Here's where the Standard's critics rated

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A year in reviews: the worst restaurants of 2023, according to the Standard's critics

From horrible concepts to ropey comebacks, not everything Jimi Famurewa and David Ellis ate was a hit

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Winter Survival Appeal: Sir Lenny Henry asks Londoners to dig deep as total hits £2.25m

Our Christmas drive with Comic Relief to help Londoners in poverty has passed £2.25 million, thanks to a £50,000 donation from TK Maxx and Homesense, as Sir Lenny Henry called on the public to dig deep to support “the most vulnerable in our communities”.

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Winter Survival Appeal: Mum of family of five living in just two rooms says Doorstep Project a 'godsend'

Maria, a mother in her forties, lives with her four children aged 13 to 22 in a hostel near Finchley Road. The five of them occupy two bedrooms that fall on either side of a corridor shared with other families.

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