Is London running out of water?
Between data centres, industry and new homes, London is facing record demand for water just as climate change leaves the capital drier than ever. The real problem is what comes next.
Andrew Kersley
Andrew has done reporting and investigative journalism for the Observer, the Sunday Times, Vittles and Private Eye.
Exclusive: The billionaire developer closing London's pubs
Companies linked to Asif Aziz have been buying up and shutting down some of the capital’s most beloved boozers. Now, we’ve mapped them.
The strange death of east London’s most radical bookshop
Clogged toilets, trade unions and Google researchers: this is the saga of the Scarlett Letters
New Providence Wharf had everything — until the fires started
How a series of blazes changed the lives of residents in a luxury east London block
The government spent millions on a plan to house London’s homeless. Then it all went wrong.
“It was a good year and a half that we were doing absolutely nothing”
Were police called to Brockwell Lido?
A shortage of outdoor swimming spots is turning London into the Hunger Games
Exclusive: The shelved plan to ban non-electric cars from Central London
We’ve obtained a 25-slide document that suggests a very different future for the capital — so why was it quietly filed away?
The high-rise that stole the sun
At the centre of Covent Garden lies the area's last community garden. Soon, it might disappear — all due to a new luxury hotel and theatre built for Cirque du Soleil.
How Lime squeezed out the Santander bike
"Boris Bikes" were supposed to be London's cycling future. This is how a private company supplanted them.
Pulling back the curtain on London’s most powerful
The rebirth of investigative reporting in the capital
City Hall gave a £1.6mn grant to a university after it employed the mayor’s wife
The record subsidy was supposed to create hundreds of green jobs across East London. But 18 months later, has it had any impact?
15 penguins are trapped in a Southbank basement. This is the plan to free them
An activist, a journalist and an MP walk into the London Aquarium. A colony of Gentoo penguins walk out
The great chicken shop war
Inside Morley's secret campaign to crush its competitors and build a city-wide monopoly
Are the super rich really leaving London?
A controversial advisory firm for the ultra-wealthy convinced national newspapers that we're facing an exodus of millionaires. Was it true?
“Headphone dodgers” are taking over London transport. Should we ban them?
“Everyone is totally zoning out and being incredibly obnoxious in the process”
How a charity founded to solve the housing crisis became one of London’s worst landlords
What went wrong at Notting Hill Genesis?