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A £500 a week benefit cap is set to come into effect in four pilot London boroughs next week. Labour’s Frank Field called it a “mega-sum”. But the increasing cost of living means that people need it. 

Islington council in north London last week became the first Labour-run local authority to take a stand against evictions.

If a council worker has to commute by train to London from Chelmsford in Essex, they’ll pay £348.70 a month for the privilege. In a year the cost is £3,540.

Around 7,000 people marched from Hackney to Haringey, north London, last Sunday in protest at the assassination of three Kurdish activists in Paris last week.

London’s Met Office revised its predictions about climate change last week.

Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the Turkish Embassy in central London yesterday, Friday, to protest at the killing of three Kurdish activists in Paris. Workers, students and campaigners united to demand justice. Among the banners were flags from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).

Channel 4’s new six part thriller Utopia is set in an unremittingly bleak London, beaten down by recession.

The demolition of a south London playground has been delayed after activists occupied the site to save it.

Did senior Tory and other prominent figures rape children in a south west London guest house in the early 1980s?

Protesters in Barnet, north London, took over a council meeting as the Tory cabinet voted to hand £750 million of services to private firm Capita.

Around 500 people tried to make themselves heard at a public consultation on the closure of Lewisham A&E in south London on Tuesday of last week.

Traffic wardens in Camden, north London, have won a pay rise of 10 percent over the next two years following strikes.