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Tom Pursglove says he did not "recognise" Paul Scullys claims about parts of London and Birmingham.

The headline figure suggests the race to be London Mayor is over. A poll in today’s Evening Standard hands Sadiq Khan a 25-point lead over Susan Hall, his Conservative rival, with just 10 weeks to go until polling day. Meanwhile, Hall’s 24 per cent total support places her ahead of the Conservative Party in London’s 17 per cent, illustrating the significant headwinds any Tory candidate would be facing.

Bernard Kops, who has died aged 97, was an East End-born playwright, poet and novelist whose first play, The Hamlet of Stepney Green (1957), enjoyed worldwide success and saw him rated alongside Harold Pinter, Arnold Wesker, John Osborne and Shelagh Delaney as part of the late 1950s British new wave. Yet while he typically selected “realistic” domestic settings for his fiction, poetry, and plays, he rarely touched on political unrest or class prejudice; instead he often incorporate...

The PM does not think Lee Anderson is racist, despite his "unacceptable" comments about Sadiq Khan, No 10 says.

Learn about true crime mysteries including the "Zodiac Killer," "Black Dahlia," "Jack the Ripper" and "Axeman of New Orleans."

The London Conservative MP had suggested there were "no-go" areas in parts of Tower Hamlets.

A former minister has apologised for suggesting there were religious “no-go” areas in parts of Birmingham and London.

Paul Scully’s remarks about “no-go areas” in London and Birmingham have been criticised by Bishop Dr Desmond Jaddoo MBE. The Conservative MP and former minister has apologised for suggesting there are people living in Tower Hamlets who “are fearful for going out” and that locals in Sparkhill have been “concerned” about their “neighbourhoods changing”. Speaking on Tuesday 27 February, Mr Jaddoo responded to Mr Scully’s comments, calling them “damaging”. “As far as I’m ...

<strong>Letter: </strong>Representatives of 14 organisations based in Tower Hamlets respond to comments by the Tory MP Paul Scully that it is a ‘no-go area’ for non-Muslims

A mixed reaction has greeted Transport for London’s list of new names for its Overground routes, announced on February 14.