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Tourists warned about cup-and-ball scammers operating in central London ahead of King’s Coronation

Visitors are warned to stay vigilant in hotspots including Leicester Square, Trafalgar Square, Madame Tussauds, and Hyde Park

Evening Standard

Late-night Greggs BANNED as police fear it will cause a 'wave of crime'

Greggs opened its Leicester Square store with a blue-carpet premiere in 2022, but Westminster City Council has denied the store permission to serve hot food 24 hours a day

Daily Mirror

‘Effortlessly cool’ London street signs from 1950s and ’60s to be auctioned off

The proceeds will be reinvested into the capital, Westminster City Council said.

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‘Postcode lottery’ as potholes take 18 months to fix in some areas – Lib Dems

Repairs took up to 567 days in Stoke-on-Trent and up to 556 days in Westminster City Council, according to data obtained by the Lib Dems.

The Independent UK

Funeral of one of RAF’s last black WW2 veterans moved to historic church

The service for Flight Sergeant Peter Brown will now take place at St Clement Danes, the RAF Central Church, in Westminster so more people can attend.

The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak slams Westminster Council over ‘eyewatering’ pay hike for cabinet members

Cabinet members are to get a 45 per cent pay rise while increasing rents for council tenants

Evening Standard

MP reveals changes to vision that led to brain tumour diagnosis a year later

Nickie was a councillor and cabinet minister for public protection & licensing at Westminster City Council when she started having vision problems

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Free school meals offered to all pupils aged 3 to 14 in London borough

Westminster City Council will extend its provision of free school meals to thousands of children in nursery and secondary schools in an unprecedented move to help familes

Daily Mirror

Oxford Street: £145,000 of goods including fake Apple products seized in latest US candy shops raid

More than £140,000 of illegal and counterfeit goods have been seized from Oxford Street US candy shops in the latest raid.

Evening Standard

London street to be renamed Kyiv Road to mark first anniversary of invasion

A section of a London street will be renamed Kyiv Road to mark the first anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Westminster City Council said.

Evening Standard

The Rhinegold at London Coliseum review: a feast for the eyes but the flavours don’t quite add up

The blazing fusion of music and drama is only kindled in the closing stages

Evening Standard

Toilets, unopened TVs among waste dumped in Westminster as council cracks down on fly tipping

CCTV is being trialled in three hotspot areas and offenders could be fined or charged

Evening Standard

Council shuts second pop-up urinal after worker crushed to death in the West End

Westminster City Council said it is temporarily shutting down the second of its UriLift toilets on Villiers Street as a “precautionary measure”

Evening Standard

London takes aim at public peeing with splash-back paint

London (AFP) - A central London district famous for its nightlife, but also home to thousands of residents, is trying out a novel way to tackle the persistent problem of public urination: so-called anti-pee paint.

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Westminster City Council considering £60m facelift for Oxford Street

The funding would be stretched over the next three years

The Independent UK

Strip club shut after claims customers had six figures stolen when their drinks were spiked

Customers at Vanity Bar and Nightclub in London’s Soho claimed they blacked out and woke up to find their bank accounts raided

Wales Online

Strip club says men made up £250k 'spiking' claims to stop wives and girlfriends finding out

One club-goer says he woke up to find £98k taken from his bank account

Evening Standard

Alfresco dining scheme trialed in Pimlico during pandemic could be made permanent

Consultation is open to the public for eight weeks

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Council installs ‘pee paint’ to give Soho drinkers relieving themselves in public ‘a nasty surprise’

The paint is being sprayed onto walls in Soho to crackdown on public urination

Evening Standard

Oh wheelie? Westminster Council left red faced after tweeting wrong image in flytipping crackdown

Westminster Council bosses were forced to clear up a mess of their own making on Friday after claims about its crackdown on fly tipping backfired.

The Independent UK

Home Office minister criticises ‘cheek’ of complaints from illegal migrants

Chris Philp made the comment amid chaos at Manston migrant base in Kent, which he said was legally compliant.

Evening Standard

The most dangerous London borough for cycling revealed as collisions in the capital surge

The number of collisions involving bicycles in London has risen from 150 in 2017 to 437 last year - the most recorded in five years

Evening Standard

London pedicabs: Council launches awareness campaign to warn against nuisance operators

Westminster City Council has launched a new awareness campaign in tandem with the Met Police to warn against rogue pedicab operators.

Evening Standard

Bird flu: Swans and geese found dead in London canals amid major avian flu outbreak

‘It’s terrible - we are seeing dead carcasses all the time’, says river worker

The Independent UK

‘Huge operation’ to keep central London clean during public mourning for Queen

Westminster Council said teams were deployed for a clean-up operation in the hours after the state funeral.

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