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Honouring London's outcast dead
Outside a cemetery for sex workers and paupers, the Crossbones Vigil happens every month without fail. What brings people back?
A rotten business: Inside London's spoilt meat dealing ring
How a visit to a Walworth cutting shop blew open a nationwide scheme to sell pet-food grade meat to unsuspecting customers
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.
An immovable feast? How Dalston fishmongers took on the City of London
Smithfield and Billingsgate markets are due to close, with no replacement site identified. So why aren't more people fighting back?
Weighing time at the zoo
Inside London Zoo's annual weigh-in, where penguins, capybaras and some very mischievous lemurs cause a media frenzy
How to freeze a Londoner
We visited the rag-tag group of men determined to ensure you live forever — all from a dilapidated South Ealing YMCA
London's pupils are the best performing in the country. Why?
Plus: excellent Ethiopian food, the best place in central to watch outdoor films and a true local's pub
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.
London's elites want to live forever
How the capital became a global hub for booming, and unregulated, “longevity” clinics
Farewell to wet-wipe island
Plus, a court case for Kenton’s Hindu community, a new home for the Prince Charles cinema and the largest mass arrest in modern history
The bus driver who began one of London's biggest Caribbean celebrations
A busman's holiday like no other
Haggerston Baths is sinking into ruin — and locals fear it won't be saved
The Grade-II listed pool has been shuttered for 25 years. But with a private-equity-funded redevelopment falling through and a cash-strapped council, will it ever reopen, wonders Peter Carlyon.
To tip or not to tip?
With a host of new service charges, cover fees and automatic gratuities, the capital's service culture is changing. We went to find out why.
Park Lane's tent city is being dismantled. But London's homelessness crisis isn't going away.
Plus: anti-asylum protests ramp up, al fresco dining comes to Shoreditch and plans swirl around giving Trump the Freedom of the City of London
