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Major European capital slips out of Fortune Global 500's top 5 cities for the first time in five years

England's capital, which is among Europe’s largest cities by population and is also Britain’s business hub, slipped to eighth position this year.

Fortune

Freddie Mercury's beloved piano, song drafts and hundreds of personal items to go on sale

More than 1,400 of Freddie Mercury’s personal items, including his flamboyant stage costumes, handwritten drafts of “Bohemian Rhapsody” and the baby grand piano he used to compose Queen’s greatest hits, are going on show in a free exhibition at Sotheby’s London ahead of their sale

The Independent UK

Merton Council launches its own £1m Ulez scrappage scheme

The council said its scheme will provide £1,000 grants “to help the poorest areas in our community that are not well connected by public transport”

Evening Standard

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Met Police officers fail to record 6,000 stop and searches in 17 months

The Met said that, on occasion, “there may be technical or equipment failure, which means an encounter isn’t recorded”

Evening Standard

OPINION - The Standard View: Rents crisis is pushing Londoners to the edge

Average rents in London are projected to soar to £2,700 per month next year, according to figures gathered by City Hall. Meanwhile, to rent just a single room in a shared house, tenants are forking out £1,000 on average.

Evening Standard

Mother of man murdered in mistaken identity killing says dealing with ‘lazy’ Met Police was ‘horrendous’

Sven Badzak, 22, and a friend were attacked by a group of six men as they walked in Kilburn, north-west London, in February 2021

The Independent UK

Cocaine Capital: record London seizures by police but number of arrests tumbles

‘Teenagers are being stabbed to death in turf wars for someone’s weekend cocaine treat,’ said one social worker

Evening Standard

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Why I live in Harlesden: George the Poet on his lifelong love affair with his north-west London neighbourhood

Podcaster and spoken word artist George the Poet tells Francesca Specter why Harlesden is still home

Evening Standard

Ulez revolt intensifies as home counties councils refuse to install signs

A home counties rebellion against Sadiq Khan’s expansion of the Ultra Low Emission Zone has intensified just weeks before it is due to be rolled out to the London boundary.

Evening Standard

Digital artist’s London show is love letter to beating anxiety ‘thanks to art’

The creative said he did not want to continue living with constant panic attacks as a teenager but vowed to help others if he overcame his anxiety.

The Independent UK

Llama Inn: Cult New York restaurant to open in Shoreditch

Llama Inn has been one of New York’s biggest restaurant success stories in recent years, and a site is now coming to London

Evening Standard

Arsenal’s Aaron Ramsdale reveals his wife had miscarriage while on flight back to UK

Arsenal goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale has bravely opened up about how he played in last season’s north London derby at Tottenham, just days after his wife had a miscarriage.

Evening Standard

Dealing with Met Police was ‘horrendous’, says mother of murder victim

Sven Badzak, 22, and a friend were attacked by a group of six men as they walked in Kilburn, north-west London, in February 2021.

The Independent UK

Machine sold on the high street for pain relief can be used to treat sleep apnoea

London trial shows TENS machine could relieve symptoms for UK’s ten million sufferers

Evening Standard

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Eight questions for London Stock Exchange chief David Schwimmer

Today the London Stock Exchange Group reported strong half-year results that suggest it is thriving.

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London Stock Exchange thrives and boss insists new trading platform “not a stitch up”

LONDON Stock Exchange Group gave firm evidence that the capital’s position as a global financial centre is safe even while share prices fall behind rivals and a dearth of new listings hits City profits.

Autosport

Magazine: Dennis crowned Formula E champion, F1 Belgian GP review

Jake Dennis has shared podiums with Max Verstappen, Charles Leclerc, George Russell, Esteban Ocon and Alex Albon, but he never got the chance to join them on the Formula 1 grid. He has, however, just become a world champion following the Formula E finale in London last weekend.

Autosport

Porsche lodges appeal against da Costa's London E-Prix time penalty

The 2019-20 Formula E champion had finished second on-the-road in the first of two races at the ExCeL London, having climbed from 17th on the grid.

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Rise in ‘ferocious’ and ‘excessively violent’ murders in London, says Met

There have been 65 murders in the capital so far this year, of which six were gun-related and 49 involved knives

The Independent UK

Train strikes 2023: Everything you need to know about August rail industrial action

RMT and Aslef unions have been walking out and banning overtime intermittently for the last 400 days

Evening Standard

CCTV shows last sighting of missing south London woman who police believe was murdered

Detectives have released CCTV footage of the last sighting of a woman they believe has been murdered.

Evening Standard

London’s housing crisis ‘unmanageable’ as one in 50 now homeless

One in 50 Londoners are now homeless and the capital’s housing crisis is becoming “unmanageable”, it was warned on Thursday.

The Guardian - UK

AI for all? Google ups the ante with free UK training courses for firms

US tech giant starts charm offensive on artificial intelligence with basic courses to help firms understand and exploit emerging phenomenon

Evening Standard

Capital’s home rental crisis as bills soar to £2,700 a month

‘Spiralling’ rental costs are driving families into poverty, a campaign group said.

The Guardian - UK

Uxbridge was not just an anti-green protest: it was the sour spirit of Brexit revived

This byelection should have been a Labour landslide – but local Tories’ freedom to choose their candidate changed all that, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

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