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Westminster Council and outgoing minister warns new PM Burnham: Don't 'diminish' London to boost north

Westminster is facing having to impose huge council tax increases on residents to plug a £100 million blackhole in its finances

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Westminster launches major crackdown on ‘swarms’ of e-bikes parked dangerously in central London

Dozens of bikes were seized by the council with the likes of Lime and Forest now required to pay for their return

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Sadiq Khan 'to force Soho al fresco dining' in face of opposition

New powers coming into force on Monday will allow Sir Sadiq to overrule Westminster Council

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Short-term letting platforms urged to tackle ‘out of control’ renting across London’s West End

Paul Swaddle is urging Airbnb-style booking platforms to cooperate to protect housing markets in London

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Liz Truss's 'pro-growth' Mayfair private members club gets green light despite protests

The ex-Prime Minister joined forces with property tycoon Robert Tchenguiz to open the Leconfield, an exclusive invitation-only club based in MI5’s former Mayfair headquarters

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Westminster Council reveals plans for new Banksy flag statue after it appears in London

The elusive artist unveiled new sculpture in central London earlier this week

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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

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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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