The East London river bandit
Paul Powlesland has the press skills of Alistair Campbell and the politics of Swampy. Now he's taking matters into his own hands.
Environment
New towns promise to solve the capital’s housing crisis. Can they?
Toxic waste, green belt meadows and some very irate locals
The rot at the heart of London's most iconic buildings
From the Ritz to Broadcasting House, Regent Street Disease is corroding thousands of the capital's best-known structures
The trash incinerator and the guerrilla bee
Beside a cathedral of sewage, some of London’s last marshlands fight for survival
How 25,000 kilograms of ‘toxic’ tar was spilled in the Thames
'You start to think: hang on, if that’s floating in the water, what's that giving off?'
The battle for Mudchute Farm
On the Isle of Dogs, London's largest city farm faces an uncertain future
The beavers are coming
After 400 years in the wilderness, the semiaquatic rodents are taking back what's theirs: London.