Karl Mercer
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Holborn and St Pancras: 15 candidates in race to replace Starmer (opens the original)
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On 8 October, voters in the Holborn and St Pancras constituency will choose their next MP. A win in this seat, which has returned Labour MPs for decades, would be a feather in the cap of the Green Party after Sir Keir Starmer stood down from the House of Commons at the start of September, shortly after leaving office as prime minister. Labour are confident of holding on, but the Greens also have high hopes of winning their first London seat - and there are 13 other candidates in the mix all hopi
Why the Soho spat over 'vertical drinking' could be the first of many (opens the original)
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Who should have the final say over what happens in the heart of London? It's been more than a week of high profile wrangling over the rules in Soho, a week when the terms "vertical drinking" and "cumulative impact zones" have come to the fore. It's been a period of very public and pretty acrimonious accusations between Conservative-run Westminster Council and London's Labour mayor - all over what direction the licensing policy for the area should take. The mayor says the council's plans will har
London's heatwave 999 call-outs higher than in pandemic (opens the original)
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High temperatures have meant London Ambulance Service (LAS) was busier in June than it was during the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic. During the June heatwave, LAS said it received more than 53,000 emergency calls leading it to deploy an extra 600 ambulance crews who treated patients for cardiac arrests and breathing difficulties as well as for those whose conditions became life-threatening in the heat. Alex Ewings, strategic commander for LAS, said the record-breaking heat generated "some of our
Everyone failed victims of Grenfell says former fire chief (opens the original)
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"I'm not involved in heroes and villains - [Grenfell] was total system failure." These are the words of Andy Roe, chairman of the Building Safety Regulator (BSR), the body in charge of safety and design in the nation's high-rise buildings, nearly 70% of which are in London. Known as Lord Roe of West Wickham, a former firefighter and London Fire Brigade commissioner, he received a life peerage and took his seat in The House of Lords in January. He now leads the body set up in the wake of the Gren
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