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Born in Kensington in October 1958, Sylvestra Le Touzel has had a varied, distinguished and generally pretty amazing career as an actor since she was a ten-year-old child. She’s appeared in everything from Dixon of Dock Green (1968) to Pygmalion (2023). Not a lot of peo...

Six years ago, it was brought home to me how incredibly difficult, damaging and glacially slow it is for an allegation of rape to lead even to a criminal charge in the capital, let alone a criminal conviction.

In the sterile circumstances of a

London TravelWatch is the official consumer body for the capital’s transport users, so when it speaks people in positions of power and authority should listen. It has issued a striking

Whenever or wherever you prevent motorised traffic from using a piece of road, there are adverse knock-on effects somewhere else. They might not be huge. They might not last long. You might think the benefits of the closure outweigh them. But they need to be anticipated, mitigated and given due emphasis when making policy decisions and later judging whether or not those polic...

The Conservatives will shortlist soon, two Liberal Democrats have said they’d like to run, built environment sage Peter Murray intends to stand as an Independent and Reform UK are making their usual sort of noise from the fringes. With the Greens, it’s just a big question mark at the moment. And all the while, Labour is waiting to see if Sadiq Khan will seek to make it four w...