Rachel Rees

1 week ago | londoncentric.media | Liv Facey |Rachel Rees |Jim Waterson

We want to open today’s edition with a note of thanks to our readers. When London Centric launched seven months ago, it was based on an educated gamble that London badly needed in-depth reporting and that a community of people would be willing to pay for it. Proper journalism takes time and money – checking out tips thoroughly, making phone calls, knocking on doors, persuading people to speak, and working through legal hurdles when we are poking at people with expensive lawyers.

2 weeks ago | ft.com | Rachel Rees

Kiln is not your average café; less a café than a “live gallery,” as co-owner Richard Cullen calls it.

3 weeks ago | londoncentric.media | Jim Waterson |Rachel Rees

Last week London Centric’s exclusive video of men defacing a residential London street with red paint as part of what appears to be a Chinese organised crime gang war received widespread coverage and was at one point leading the homepage of the Times. Reporting like this will always be at the heart of what we do, but it takes time and costs money. As ever, if you want to read agenda-setting investigations about the capital then they will be available first to paying subscribers.

3 weeks ago | ft.com | Rachel Rees

At 6am every morning, a stream of fishing boats leaves North Shields Fish Quay on England’s north-east coast.

1 month ago | londoncentric.media | Jim Waterson |Rachel Rees

London Centric will go to almost any lengths to bring you a story — including wading through human excrement. On Tuesday I donned a pair of waterproof trousers and headed out into a heavily-polluted London stream, in a bid to verify a story that sounded too shocking to be true. This is the tale of “misconnections”, where badly-constructed homes illegally bypass treatment works and send their raw sewage into the waterways that feed the River Thames.