Archive - London Centric

How London's bus drivers got the city home on 7/7

Plus: The capital misses out on transport funding again — and how to beat the queue for the Bayeux Tapestry.

Jul 9 •

"A swamp of muck and crap": Martin Lewis on how clickbait broke journalism

Plus: Is London getting new Bakerloo line trains after all and the property billionaire's £3m scaffolding bill.

Jul 5 •

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London Tory leader joins mass deportation campaign

Plus: Scroll to the end for a story about the mysterious arsonist of north London — and why parliament is talking about the capital's dubious Harry…

Jul 2 •

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June 2025

London's mudlarks at war: feuds, fights and slurs on the shoreline

“Fuck off, this is my patch": A niche hobby exploded in popularity due to social media. Now the police are involved, as the people searching the Thames…

Jun 28 •

Does London heat really feel different?

Plus: Labour politicians defect to the Greens, a big legal bill for defending festivals in parks, and does the Standard actually like London?

Jun 25 •

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Where's London's missing Banksy?

London Centric investigates a tale of money, the global art market, East End rivalries, and the "curse of Banksy".

Jun 20 •

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…

Jun 18 •

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Who's behind London's vigilante tube cleaners?

Plus: More foxes, more red paint, and a pivot into confectionery by Kemi Badenoch.

Jun 14 •

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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.

Jun 9 •

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?

Jun 5 •

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.

Jun 1 •

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…

May 28 •

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