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Two areas in London have been shortlisted for the construction of new towns under the housing secretary’s plan to “get Britain building again”. Crews Hill in Enfield and Thamesmead in Greenwich have been put forward for development, and construction of the Enfield town could begin before the next general election. Enfield Council leader Ergin Erbil said the 21,000-home development would ...

A Labour politician abused his mayoral office to try to secure immigration visas to bring 41 family members and friends from Bangladesh to Britain, a Telegraph investigation has found. Cllr Mohammad Amirul Islam sent both “official” and “doctored” letters emblazoned with his council’s crest and logo to the British High Commission in Dhaka in an attempt to get visa applications ...

London would be the only region where Labour would keep most of the MPs it won in 2024 if a general election were held tomorrow, a new poll has suggested. Nigel Farage is on course to be Prime Minister with Reform UK the favourite to win hundreds of constituencies across the country currently held by the Tories and Labour, an ...

A 22-year-old nursery worker has been sentenced to eight years in jail after being convicted of the “sadistic” abuse of 21 babies, including pinching and pushing children and kicking one little boy in the face. Roksana Lecka, from Hounslow in west London, admitted to seven counts of cruelty to a person under the age of 16 and was convicted of ...

A 700-year-old church tower has been suspended 45 feet above ground as part of a major City of London building project. The tower of All Hallows Staining Church was balanced on stilts above a 60,000 square foot excavation site at 50 Fenchurch Street in what developers called a “never seen before feat of engineering”. A “bottoming out” ceremony on Tuesday ...

Sir Sadiq Khan has said Donald Trump has shown he is “racist, sexist, misogynistic and Islamophobic” after the president made comments about him to the United Nations. Speaking to the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, Trump said London had “a terrible, terrible mayor, and it’s been changed, it’s been so changed”. He added: “Now they want to ...

A person has been arrested in connection with a cyber-attack which has caused days of disruption at several European airports including Heathrow. The National Crime Agency (NCA) said a man in his forties was arrested in West Sussex “as part of an investigation into a cyber incident impacting Collins Aerospace”. There have been hundreds of flight delays after Collins Aerospace ...

City Thameslink in London has been named the worst of Britain’s busiest railway stations for cancellations in the year to August. About one in 13 of almost 150,000 scheduled stops there were cancelled during that time, according to Office of Rail and Road (ORR) figures analysed by BBC. Those cancellations were among about three million cancelled stops in Britain of ...

  By Muhammed Shahed Rahman:   Tower Hamlets Town Hall’s Open Day was held with a large number of residents and distinguished guests in attendance. Saturday (September 20) marks the council’s 60th anniversary and the official opening of the new town hall coincide with the event. The Town Hall was crowded with visitors from 10 am to 5 pm. The ...

Air travellers are facing another day of disruption at several European airports including Heathrow, after a cyber-attack knocked out a check-in and baggage system. There were hundreds of delays on Saturday after the software used by several airlines failed, with affected airports boarding passengers using pen and paper. Brussels Airport said a cyber-attack on Friday night meant passengers were being ...