London
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Chris Grayling advises motorists to 'think hard' before buying dieselTransport secretary recommends low-emission cars after it emerges that thousands of children breathing toxic air
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Sadiq Khan: nationalism can be as divisive as bigotry and racismLondon’s mayor implies fresh Scottish referendum would be as destabilising as Brexit vote and Trump presidency
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Five teenagers from London charged with terror offencesMale youths aged between 15 and 19 were arrested earlier this week by Met police
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Serial squatters face eviction from £14m London mansionOwner of property near Buckingham Palace seeks urgent possession notice after group occupied third building in Belgravia
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Met 'trying to gag critics' by defunding its black officers' associationBacklash over plan to jettison 19 police staff associations and replace them with single umbrella group
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London buses and great expectorationsBrief letters: Spitting on buses | Acid for sale | Betting industry | ‘sad cakes’
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The Guardian view on the Met police: changing, but too slowlyEditorial: The new commissioner faces a daunting reform challenge, but begins with stores of political capital
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Edward Barber obituaryPhotographer best known for his five-year-long project on the British anti-nuclear protest movement of the early 1980s
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Government 'watering down' pollution limits to meet Heathrow pledgeMPs say ministers are not doing enough to demonstrate how third runway would meet obligations on noise and air quality
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Cressida Dick appointed first female Met police commissionerMet’s former head of counter-terrorism to take over from Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe as Britain’s top police officer
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'She inspires confidence': Cressida Dick, the Met's first female commissionerDick returns to policing after time at the Foreign Office, bringing weight of her experience in counter-terrorism and operations
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Why a viral video of a cyclist's revenge on catcallers may not be all it seemsVideo of woman tearing wing mirror from catcaller’s van is viral dynamite – but it seems no one verified it before covering the story
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Mystery over male Black Death victims found buried hand in handArchaeologists say pair unearthed in London plague burial ground may have been related by blood or marriage
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Tweed, thorny florals and Lady Macbeth: fashion goes for a hard BrexitLondon fashion week featured tartan, corsets and formidable women as a new take on British identity came into focus
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ITV to shut London studio with 40-year history of top programmingThe London Studios on the South Bank is to close as a result of plans to redevelop HQ on same site, with 140 jobs expected to go
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Chainmail and shirttails: London fashion week trends you will actually wearThis autumn you’ll be drawn to chunky jumpers over flowing skirts, statement earrings and power socks. Trust us
The lure of tall buildings: A guide to the risky but lucrative world of ‘rooftoppers’