The Latest Breaking News from Battersea

The return of motor racing to London looked like a fanciful dream before the arrival of Formula E. Yet it did come back with the FIA’s electric-vehicle single-seater series, though the tale of racing’s re-establishment in the UK capital with a firm FE fixture on the international calendar at ExCeL…

Decommissioned power station in south London reopens as glitzy shopping, living and leisure complex

Events, prize draws and gifts with purchases will be offered to celebrate opening day

Letters: Mike Lee on emissions from its chimneys, and Jane Marsh on the innovative use made of waste heat that it generated

After decades of false starts and fallouts, Battersea Power Station is reborn — but is the controversy over?

A Place in the Sun star Danni Menzies was knocked unconscious and left battered and bloodied when a stolen moped ploughed into her near her home in Battersea, south London

The new film Mrs Harris Goes to Paris is based on a 1958 novel by the American writer Paul Gallico: no British novelist could romanticise the class system quite so wackily. It is about the adventures of a Battersea char who, heartbroken by the death of her husband, saves up…

Brief letters: Crab apple jelly | Brain surgery pioneers | Battersea’s smoke | Possessive pronouns | Teacher’s puzzling English | Putrid pies

Wilkinson Eyre’s restrained conversion of the London landmark embraces the bravura of the original design, while the new flats aren’t so successful