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Paddington Bear rip-off merchandise worth £9,500 seized in Oxford Street shop raids

Hundreds of tote bags, T-shirts and other souvenirs were confiscated in raids on nine shops ahead of the release of Paddington 3

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London pub faces restrictions after resident complains about 'occasional bout of customer laughter'

Neighbour grumbled about customers socialising and shouting ‘happy birthday’ outside the bar just after midnight

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Illegal sweets, cereal, and crisps set to be incinerated after Oxford Street American candy store raid

Big-name American sweets, crisps and cereal were seized as they contain ingredients banned in the UK

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Labour loses central London by-election to Tories amid row over Sadiq Khan's Oxford Street pedestrianisation

The council result came just days after the controversial move was unveiled

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London council offers free lunch for children from nursery to secondary school

Westminster Council vows to keep funding free food indefinitely

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Oxford Street food market given green light in war on American candy stores

More than a dozen restaurants will set up in the former Evans’ store near Marble Arch

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Large food market planned for Oxford Street as fight against American-style candy stores continues

Some 19 restaurants will set up in a food court next to Marble Arch if the project wins planning permission

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Illegal rave venue in Marylebone shut down after reports of 'thumping music' and 'public urination'

Unauthorised music events sometimes lasted more than 14 hours

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Rough sleeping in London up by a third as capital faces 'homelessness emergency'

Councils warn policy of moving asylum seekers out of hostels is causing spike in rough sleeping numbers

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Regent Street's grand European-inspired makeover to prioritise cyclists and pedestrians

The Champs-Élysées in Paris, La Rambla in Barcelona and Mariahilfer Strasse in Vienna are being used as inspiration

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London council pleads: 'Give us powers to crack down on abandoned e-bikes'

Westminster council says new legislation is 'missing link' in enabling boroughs to tackle lazily-parked hire bikes

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Developer gets green light to turn abandoned £23m Grade-II listed hotel opposite Hyde Park into apartments

The Averard Hotel opened on Lancaster Gate in the Roaring Twenties but has sat empty for 15 years – until now

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Replacing Westminster gas lamps with LED replicas would be 'cultural vandalism', say Tory MPs

There are almost 100 gas lamps in London which could be replaced with more eco friendly replicas

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Police call for 'worst run venue in Soho during London Pride' to lose licence

The Met Police claimed Canwood55 on Frith Street was run in an 'awful' way

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Love me do: Beatles wedding venue to mark its centenary with 100 marriages in a day

The London venue has staged more celebrity nuptials than anywhere else in the UK, and now 100 couples will get a chance to marry there for just £100

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Security minister says pro-Palestine stage near Cenotaph was ‘disgraceful’

The Met Police and Westminster City Council each suggested the other would have been responsible for approving where such a stage was positioned.

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Oxford Street ‘not what it used to be’, admits Sadiq Khan as he pursues pedestrianisation

The mayor said that while he “loves” Oxford Street, he acknowledges it “isn’t what it used to be”.

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Rishi Sunak urged to press ahead with crackdown on West End pedicabs

Rishi Sunak was on Tuesday urged to ensure a serious crackdown on rip-off pedicabs goes ahead later this year.

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Westminster council outlines plans for crackdown on dockless e-bikes littering streets

The new arrangement in the borough will be in place for an 18-month trial period

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OPINION - Dylan Jones: Plaques are great — but if only London had even more of them

Four years ago, the long and winding road finally ended up in Savile Row. To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the final Beatles concert on the roof of No 3, my good friend David Rosen, of Pilcher Hershman (“space agent, not estate agent,” he’ll say, just in case you didn’t know),…

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Trisha’s lives! Legendary Soho drinking den to remain but licence temporarily suspended after council review

The New Evaristo Club, known affectionately as Trisha’s, has been a Greek Street hangout for decades, attracting a long list of celebrity clientele

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Time to resurrect ‘crucial’ pedicab law to protect central London from ‘menace’ operators, council warns

Nuisance pedicab operators will continue to wreak havoc in London’s West End without new legislation to tackle them, a council has warned.

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Action needed on noise complaints threatening London pubs says Tory London Mayor hopeful

Samuel Kasumu said Londoners should expect to ‘deal with’ a bit of noise

Evening Standard

Westminster Council to urge National Crime Agency to crack down on rogue Oxford Street US candy shops

Westminster Council will urge the National Crime Agency to investigate firms behind some US-style candy shops on Oxford Street.

Daily Mirror

Late-night Greggs BANNED as police fear it will cause a 'wave of crime'

Greggs opened its Leicester Square store with a blue-carpet premiere in 2022, but Westminster City Council has denied the store permission to serve hot food 24 hours a day

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