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The curious case of Sadiq Khan's new nightlife adviser
Plus: Is this London's most expensive car parking space, we hang around tube depots looking for graffiti so you don't have to, and the government is…
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Jim Waterson
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Rachel Rees
4
Who's behind London's vigilante tube cleaners?
Plus: More foxes, more red paint, and a pivot into confectionery by Kemi Badenoch.
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Jim Waterson
 and 
Rachel Rees
37
Why Lime bikes beep
Plus: Are foxes occupying Google's new London HQ, what happened when everyone paid to skip the queue at SXSW, and pope-themed vegetable sculptures.
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Jim Waterson
36
The man who wants to knock down the London cinema he saved
Plus: Exactly how loud is Mighty Hoopla — and when will London get any money to expand the tube network?
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Jim Waterson
13
The real 5G conspiracy: How Londoners are being lied to about their phone signal
Plus: We reveal how much the capital's councils actually make from festivals in their parks.
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Jim Waterson
42

May 2025

Sadiq Khan: Some cannabis possession should be decriminalised
Plus: The closure of a once-giant London newspaper, Lime bike ecstasy pills, and is the water in the Serpentine really as bad as the headlines would…
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Jim Waterson
 and 
Rachel Rees
23
A Mighty Fudge: Hoopla approved, just don't ask how
Plus: Preposterous London property of the week, Mudchute City Farm under threat, and the renters trapped in a Ballardian tower block nightmare.
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Jim Waterson
8
High-Rise dystopia: Disabled tower block residents "threatened" for posting about broken lifts on Reddit
A Ballardian nightmare is underway at the Balfron Tower in east London, where London Centric spoke to disabled residents who have been stranded without…
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Rachel Rees
16
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
29
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
60
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
15
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
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