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TV adventurer Ben Fogle’s eclectic Kensington home up for rent at £6,000 per week

Star of Castaway 2000 and New Lives in the Wild is planning to rent out his London home

Evening Standard

Ember Locke promises stays with a location-inspired splash of colour

Ember Locke, the lifestyle hospitality brand's sixth location in London, launches in Kensington and Chelsea in a splash of colour

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OPINION - The new rich? They are different. Anonymous, low-key and reclusive

What does a billionaire most want that most of the rest of us somehow manage without? An American stratospheric net worther is currently advertising via a Kensington recruitment company for an “exceptional” nanny to oversee canine care, diet and play dates with a salary well over £100k for the right…

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OPINION - The Standard View: Grenfell, six years on: there’s still no justice for the 72 victims

SIX years ago today, London awoke to the almost unimaginable news that a fire in a north Kensington tower block had taken a terrible toll in human life. The horror of the news — that people in a tall building had been trapped in their own homes to die in…

Evening Standard

‘Compassion and understanding needed when future of Grenfell Tower is decided’

The tower stands in north Kensington, west London, covered in a protective wrap showing a green heart.

The Independent UK

Billionaire peer Earl Cadogan from one of Britain’s richest families dies aged 86

The 8th Earl Cadogan was worth an estimated £5billion and headed up Cadogan Estates, owners of almost 100 acres of Kensington and Chelsea

Daily Mirror

South Kensington could get new Tube entrance (on religious grounds)

A proposed outside archway will allow those deprived from using the Underground at South Kensington to use it

Evening Standard

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Why I live in Kensington: artist David Remfry on his London area — and why there’s more to it than museums

Artist David Remfry is co-ordinator of the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition this year. Here’s why he’s called Kensington home for 40 years and counting

Evening Standard

Australian-first affordable rental scheme a ‘massive relief’ for Victorians faced with housing crisis

Exclusive: About 2,400 homes will be available for low- to middle-income renters under ‘big housing build’

The Guardian - AU

Traffic wardens to stage six-day strike during Chelsea Flower Show

Members of the GMB will walk out from May 22 in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

Evening Standard

‘Advisory’ cycle lanes could be painted onto road surface in High Street Kensington

Campaigners warn ‘dotted lines don’t save lives’ and tell council to do better

Evening Standard

London council spending thousands on art and security patrols in opulent wards

Exclusive: Kensington and Chelsea, one of most unequal boroughs in UK, allocating social infrastructure funds in wards where homes go for millions

The Guardian - UK

Labour’s former Kensington MP Emma Dent Coad quits party calling it ‘unrecognisable’

Labour’s former Kensington MP has quit the party, saying it is “unrecognisable” under Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership.

Evening Standard

‘Enormous’ Kensington penthouse with a flat-within-a-flat is for sale for £16 million

A seven-bedroom penthouse near Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park comes with a separate two-bedroom flat

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London’s income tax bombshell hits a record £51.6 billion

Kensington now pays more income tax than the whole of Northern Ireland

Evening Standard

Campaigners lose High Court battle over axed ‘pop up’ High Street Kensington cycle lanes

‘No-one seriously thinks that removing a safety scheme after seven weeks makes sense’ say defeated activists

Liverpool Echo

Off-duty nurses rushed to help boy, 11, hit by van in Kensington

The boy remains in a serious condition in hospital

Daily Mirror

Boy, 11, rushed to hospital after being hit by van as police appeal for witnesses

The young boy was knocked down by a Ford Transit van in the Kensington area of Liverpool last night and taken to hospital by ambulance, where he remains in a serious condition

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Richard Arnold and Ed Woodward's contrasting decisions as Man Utd quit £1m-a-year HQ

Manchester United are upping sticks after nearly a decade at their office in Mayfair, London as Richard Arnold and his executive team make the move to Kensington

Evening Standard

Controversial Kensington home with half its 11,000sq ft living space underground listed for £44 million

Conspicuous among its stucco-fronted neighbours, this ultra-modern home received a cool reception from locals when it was built 15 years ago

ABC News

Witness tells murder trial of horror discovery in Melbourne bathtub

Andrew Baker has pleaded not guilty to murdering Sarah Gatt, whose decomposed body was found in the bathroom of her Kensington flat by police in January 2018.

The Independent UK

Police driver under criminal investigation following death of pedestrian

Rachael Moore, 22, died after she was hit by the Merseyside Police vehicle in the Kensington area of Liverpool.

Tribune News Service

As opioids mixed with animal tranquilizers arrive in Philly neighborhood, so do alarming health challenges

PHILADELPHIA — Many people living on the streets in Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood — the largest open-air drug market on the East Coast — are in full-blown addiction, openly snorting, smoking or injecting illicit drugs, hunched over crates or on stoops. Syringes litter sidewalks, and the stench of urine fouls the…

Evening Standard

London borough plans council tax freeze and £100 rebate for residents

Kensington and Chelsea plans to defy the wave of council tax hikes facing most Londoners and has recommended issuing rebates to thousands of residents.

Liverpool Echo

Areas that share a name but are miles apart when it comes to housing

These places may share a name, but the price tags on homes are polar opposites

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