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5 days ago | 
londoncentric.media | Jim Waterson
One thing London Centric will always do is return to the stories that other news outlets have moved on from. In a week when Sadiq Khan announced he had changed his mind on the need to build housing on Green Belt land to ease the capital’s housing crisis, we have obtained previously unseen internal reports and pictures that tell the story of one incident in which 80 Londoners lost their homes last summer.
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1 week ago | 
londoncentric.media | Jim Waterson
When an anonymous social media account popped up last week defending music festivals in south London’s Brockwell Park, many locals smelled a rat. SayYesLambeth claimed to be a grassroots account representing the silent “majority” of people who secretly want big, noisy summer events to go ahead in one of London’s biggest public spaces.
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1 week ago | 
londoncentric.media | Jim Waterson
By Sophie Wilkinson and Jim WatersonA typical night at one of Alex Proud’s London cabaret venues could involve men breathing fire, women dangling from ropes, and drag queen comedy sets. But the performers and producers making it happen, plus the bar staff and chefs delivering bottomless brunches and late night cocktails, aren’t necessarily getting paid.
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3 weeks ago | 
londoncentric.media | Jim Waterson
Is an artfully-lit Georgian townhouse near Borough Market following you around the internet? If you’re a Londoner who has spent any time on social media over the last few weeks, there’s a good chance that adverts for 21 Park Street have been all over your Instagram or Facebook feed. The four bedroom house is described as being worth “over £4.5m” by Omaze, the for-profit company that has become a British cultural phenomenon by giving away properties in an online prize draw.
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4 weeks 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.
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1 month ago | 
londoncentric.media | Jim Waterson
Today London Centric is publishing an investigation into a property developer with a chequered record who has discovered a curious loophole which allows him to take control of council housing across the capital — and then build new private homes on the roof. This sort of journalism takes an enormous investment of time, money and legal advice — all funded by members. But we believe it adds more to Londoners’ understanding of how the capital really works than any amount of clickbait journalism.
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1 month ago | 
londoncentric.media | Jim Waterson
The last time a London leader opened a road tunnel under the Thames he proudly cut a ribbon in front of a cheering crowd and heralded its construction as a sign of economic growth that would reduce congestion. The year was 1967 and Desmond Plummer, the Conservative boss of the Greater London Council, did his best to entertain the media as he operated a bulldozer with a remote control at the opening ceremony of the second Blackwall tunnel.
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1 month ago | 
londoncentric.media | Jim Waterson
For the last twenty five years the mayor of London has seen as the undisputed leader of the capital. This has allowed Ken Livingstone, Boris Johnson, and Sadiq Khan to shape the city in their image with their own pet projects, whether it’s the congestion charge, a cablecar, or ULEZ. But right now the mayor’s dominance is quietly under threat — and it’s a debate that most of the capital’s residents aren’t even aware is taking place.
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1 month 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.
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1 month ago | 
londoncentric.media | Jim Waterson
London Centric has obtained the first videos of a hammer-wielding gang targeting Londoners’ homes with red paint, motor oil, and graffiti claiming properties are “brothels”. One video, in which the gang can be heard speaking Mandarin with accents associated with northern China, shows a violent attack on a property in Acton earlier this month in which a hammer was used to smash windows. A second video shows a near-identical attack on a property in Ealing in January.