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Nine years ago a woman attempted to get the attention of Sadiq Khan in an unusual way — by sending him a poem on Twitter celebrating London’s cultural diversity.

In the wake of the Westminster Bridge terror attack, “Dupuy Laila” posted the verse listing areas, nationalities, pronouns, religions, and sexualities that are represented in the capital. It concluded: “I am lo...


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Today is the deadline for the capital’s parents to submit their applications for a primary school place. Ten years ago the media was full of headlines about London families being unable to get their children into schools due to a chronic shortage of places. Councils were rushing to build new classrooms to meet the demand caused by an early 2010s baby boom, high immigration, a...


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A London nightclub owner bought a vintage Lamborghini shortly after receiving hundreds of thousands of pounds in public arts funding to prop up his supposedly struggling venues.

London Centric has been told that Alex Proud, the high-profile London cabaret boss who ran two nightclubs and a gallery, paid £77,700 for a 1985 black Lamborghini Jalpa within weeks of his busin...


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Happy New Year, especially to everyone who got a subscription to London Centric as a Christmas present. I ended up covering a new record of 48 miles on Christmas Eve delivering the final gift cards to new subscribers and even saying hello to some of you in the process...


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