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London's tube drivers are divided
Plus: A £20m home in Mayfair, the growth of "water charges" in London restaurants, another cinema collapse for London's cursed cinema chain, and more…
Nov 11 • 
Jim Waterson
, 
Polly Smythe
, and 
Riya Sharma
Would your home have been under a motorway?
"The most astonishing and destructive thing never to happen to London," says the man who has spent twenty years researching the first true map of the…
Nov 9 • 
Jim Waterson
Can anyone stop the We R Blighty fundraisers?
Plus: Another defection to the Greens — and Sadiq Khan compares Zohran Mamdani's election experience to his own.
Nov 5 • 
Jim Waterson
, 
Polly Smythe
, 
Cormac Kehoe
, and 
Riya Sharma
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Lime bikes keep breaking Londoners' legs
Jan 23 • Jim Waterson
The snail farmer of London, his mafia friends, and a £20m vendetta against the taxman
Oct 18 • Jim Waterson
The billionaire and the tax evading gift shops
Jul 22 • Jim Waterson, Cormac Kehoe, and Rachel Rees
Why can't anyone stop the fundraisers outside London stations?
Jul 17 • Jim Waterson
Why Omaze is giving away London's most expensive council house in a raffle
Apr 24 • Jim Waterson
London’s Pedicabs: Sex, loathing, and highway robbery
May 14 • Jim Waterson
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Goodbye service charge, hello 'admin fee'
Plus: The difficulty of sourcing live snails for a London restaurant and a tribute to one of London's leading American candy shops.
Nov 2 • 
Jim Waterson
, 
Polly Smythe
, 
Riya Sharma
, and 
Cormac Kehoe
London's thieves are burying phones in flowerbeds
The police don't take much interest in returning the stolen devices when they're dug up — so London Centric decided to do it.
Oct 30 • 
Jim Waterson
, 
Riya Sharma
, and 
Polly Smythe
Hampstead Heath and the battle over London's green spaces
Plus: We speak to the restaurant owner berating locals for not eating at his restaurant, go litter picking with Ed Davey, and explain how we…
Oct 26 • 
Jim Waterson
, 
Polly Smythe
, and 
Riya Sharma
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