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Brockwell Park festivals back on for now — but new challenges in Finsbury Park and Victoria Park
Mighty Hoopla and Field Day insist they'll go ahead as planned this month, despite losing a legal battle. But London Centric has learned other festivals…
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Jim Waterson
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Mighty Hoopla and Field Day: Victory for anti-festival campaigners
Plus: The Italian businessman ordered to fill his Mayfair basement with concrete and the messy battle over LTNs in the capital.
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Jim Waterson
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London’s Pedicabs: Sex, loathing, and highway robbery
The inside story of how the capital's most chaotic and least understood form of transport actually works.
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Jim Waterson
14
A London fire disaster: the untold story
Plus: Sadiq Khan reassures London Centric readers that he doesn't want to build housing on their local park.
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Jim Waterson
3
"Five gays with a laptop" vs Mark Rylance: The Battle For Brockwell Park
Plus: An interpreter shortage halts Westfield chair-chucking trial and the Standard continues to lose money.
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Jim Waterson
21
The cabaret boss, the unpaid wages, and the £500k Covid grant
As Alex Proud prepares to open a new late night venue in Shoreditch, the London nightlife baron has left a trail of unpaid debts and angry performers in…
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Jim Waterson
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April 2025

Why Omaze is giving away London's most expensive council house in a raffle
Shakespeare, social housing, and influencers: What does a prize draw for a Georgian town house near Borough Market say about the state of the capital's…
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Jim Waterson
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The £30,000 legal challenge to Mighty Hoopla and Field Day festivals
Plus: The strange alliance of motorists using an ancient ferry to avoid the new tolls for crossing the Thames.
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Jim Waterson
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Is this "dishonest" property developer building on your roof?
James Gold was found to pose a "significant risk to the public". So how is he privatising council housing blocks across London and putting new flats on…
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Jim Waterson
6
Why did Sadiq Khan build a giant road tunnel?
Plus: The continuing battle between London's councils and the mayor over who should run London — and more red paint attacks.
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Jim Waterson
22
The plan to make Sadiq Khan share power in London
Exclusive: London's councils want a "radical" change that could curtail the mayor's power — by following the lead of Andy Burnham in Greater Manchester.
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Jim Waterson
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"The police are scared": Is a triad gang war underway in London?
Plus: The end of the Friday night post-work drink in central London, and your chance to live in a church tower near London Bridge.
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Jim Waterson
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