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News452‘Because I’m a Londoner’ photo competition launched with focus on ‘new normal’
Visit London have teamed up with Photocrowd and the Museum of London to offer Londoners a chance to showcase the best of their local area and the people and places of London, as restrictions begin to ease and the capital emerges from lockdown. Entrants do...
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News490City Hall fears less investment in London than the regions
London must not lose out to other regions in the Government’s ‘levelling up’ plans, a top Mayoral official has warned. Sadiq Khan’s chief of staff David Bellamy said ministers needed to invest in the capital. Boris Johnson unveiled a £5 billion cash...
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News408Heathrow pressure group calls for permanent reduction in flights
People living under the Heathrow Airport flight path are relishing a break from plane noise amid coronavirus lockdown, according to a new survey. A total of 80% view reduced flights as a positive, a 3,250-person poll conducted by anti-expansion pressure group...
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News441Homelessness to treble due to rent debt coronavirus crisis
Homelessness will treble this year unless the government acts to end the rent debt crisis faced by private renters as a result of the economic shock of coronavirus, Generation Rent has warned. While the government has suspended all eviction cases in the courts until 24 August,...
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News660Londoners should not listen to “scare stories” of an impending local lockdown
Londoners should not listen to “scare stories” of an impending local lockdown in the wake of fresh coronavirus restrictions in Leicester, the Deputy Mayor for Resilience has said. Dr Fiona Twycross – who is leading London’s response to Covid-19 – said infection...
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News617Six members of international organised crime group sentenced for stolen vehicle export scam
Six men have been sentenced to a total of 20 years for their part in supplying and exporting stolen vehicles to Northern Cyprus. The City of London Police, who led the investigation, identified in excess of 120 stolen vehicles linked to the...
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News485£250k boost for Jewish women’s charity facing Covid-19 surge
A Jewish women’s charity facing a surge in demand from domestic abuse victims during the coronavirus crisis has been handed a timely boost to enable it to help more women. Jewish Women’s Aid, which supports female victims of domestic abuse and sexual violence...
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News492London projects successfully promotes organ donation amongst black and Asian communities
Campaigns to address the critical shortage of black, Asian, mixed race and minority ethnic organ donors has raised awareness in the London area thanks to ten local organisations who hosted a number of events for the public. The projects are among...
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News515The Museum of London collects shared experiences of Ramadan in lockdown
As part of the wider Collecting COVID project, the Museum of London has shared details of one of the earliest initiatives developed, aiming to reflect how the Muslim community experienced Ramadan during lockdown. In April, the Museum of London announced that it was seeking to collect...
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News548UK must learn climate change lessons from Covid-19 pandemic
Britain must learn the lesson of responding too slowly to the coronavirus pandemic and take rapid action to combat climate change, the Mayor of London has said. Sadiq Khan said Covid-19 has created a “once in a generation opportunity” to halt...
By Jessie Mathewson