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It’s hot. You’re hot. It’s going to get hotter. There’s a red weather warning. And if the heat didn’t keep you awake all night, then two hours of biblical thunderstorms and lightning probably did.

That is the news.

Welcome to London Centric, where we’re working on a run of investigative stories that we’re really excited to bring you .

Today we’re looking at an issue that has been requested by many subscribers this week: What’s really going on with the threat to sell Brixton Market?

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Welcome to this week’s London Centric. For the first time, we sent reporters to cover an event we were almost certain would not take place.

Scroll to the end to read the story of how Stratford in east London was sent into panic by an AI-generated viral post and how London can deal with this in the future.

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Harry Potter gift shops in central London were raided by HMRC this week following a London Centric investigation into rampant tax evasion.

Over the last 18 months we’ve exposed the dubious ownership of many of the capital’s gift shops, highlig...

Today we’ve got a story about how hundreds of thousands of people stayed in an Ibis hotel owned by billionaire landlord Asif Aziz without knowing it was coated in potentially lethal Grenfell-style flammable cladding.

Scroll down to read that piece, which looks at how fire safety reports were rewritten at the request of Aziz’s company, meaning it took eight years...