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?
Investigations
No laughing matter: Why didn’t a top Soho comedy club pay its performers?
21Soho was meant to breathe life into London's stand-up scene. Yet dozens of artists and former staff members paint a portrait of a company in utter chaos.
Why is London’s rental housing so bad?
In cash-strapped councils, there's nobody left to enforce any standards, reports Peter Apps
Do those ‘We R Blighty’ fundraisers outside stations really deserve your cash?
The group says it raises money for homeless veterans. But we found it was pretending to be a charity and is accused of letting volunteers steal funds
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?
How a charity founded to solve the housing crisis became one of London’s worst landlords
What went wrong at Notting Hill Genesis?
Cocaine, kids and Shrek-themed OnlyFans: life inside London’s immersive tourist attractions
One former Shrek’s Adventure employee tells all
Collapsing balconies, West Ham tickets and a council that got very cosy with developers
Investigation: While its new buildings were falling apart, councillors in Barking were getting football and concert tickets from key property companies — and even jobs
Noise complaints are killing London’s pubs
We mapped the dozens of pubs forced to shut early or that faced closure last year due to everything from “faint giggles” to “constant honking” from cars.
Exclusive: Sadiq Khan’s Taylor Swift tickets were gifted by a company awarded £45m contracts by City Hall
The mayor faces major questions about a conflict of interest in relation to an events company that helped to organise the late Queen’s funeral
How private equity took over your kid's nursery
Are ruthless investors the reason you’re paying half your salary to Little Muffins Ltd?
The 'cult'-like church taking over London — and its links to Labour politicians
The UCKG has been accused of conducting conversion therapy, controlling members’ lives and coercing people to donate their life savings
Exclusive: How a Labour MP evicted a homeless mother of two
"I don't even know what is going to happen to me. They could move me to Birmingham."
‘Nobody knows what’s down there’: The endless fire poisoning a community
It used to be an underground drug bunker. Now a field on the edge of London is so dangerous the fire service refuses to enter it and local children are choking on its fumes
Exclusive: Labour MP Jas Athwal is the landlord of a failing children’s home
The home is run by a friend of his, whose company received millions from the council Athwal ran
Investigation: The MP, the 'Don' - and the millions spent on children's care
‘How you’re going to pin this on me I’ve got no idea’