A week after Oxford Street's £150 million pedestrian zone opened, shoppers report cyclists riding through it and are calling for fines.
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Labour is reportedly set to end about half of its local council coalitions with the Green Party after reviewing ties following a Greens conference motion calling Zionism racism.
Westminster City Council removed a bench from a street garden created by 89-year-old Katharine Hoskyns, citing complaints that the space attracted anti-social behaviour.
At least a dozen homeless men have set up makeshift homes in Reading's Civic B Car Park, where hourly parking rates recently rose from £2.10 to £4.30.
UK councils and police are distributing 'no trick or treat' posters for households wishing to avoid Halloween callers, while some residents are urged not to carve pumpkins over food waste.
Protesters placed poppy stickers on a Wetherspoon pub in Gosport after reports that military veterans wearing poppies were refused entry.
Glasgow's Govanhill has been named on Time Out's list of the world's coolest neighbourhoods, with residents divided over its reputation for crime versus its diverse culture.
Days after Oxford Street became a pedestrian-only zone under Sadiq Khan's scheme, cyclists are reportedly riding through it and cab drivers say journeys are taking longer.
Residents near the Hollywood Sign say city-encouraged tourist traffic creates a fire hazard by potentially blocking firefighters, and they blame Mayor Karen Bass and a political rival.
Organisers of Richmond Christmas Fair in North Yorkshire have dropped plans to feature live reindeer at the November 29 event following a dispute over animal welfare.
Residents in Bushey, Hertfordshire, are objecting to plans for a 130ft AI data centre on a former hotel and orchard site near homes and a Jewish cemetery.
A Magic Mike-inspired strip show in Swansea was cancelled after council officials reportedly deemed it too raunchy, according to its lead performer Will Parfitt.
Brighton council has stopped using its traditional 'Brighton Blue' paint on seafront railings and lampposts over cost, prompting criticism that it is erasing local heritage.
Denbighshire County Council is trialling soft plastics recycling with about 4,500 homes, adding to a sorting system some residents say now involves 12 bins.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan's pedestrian-only scheme for nearly a kilometre of Oxford Street took effect, with reports of traffic congestion on neighbouring streets.
The Daily Mail profiles Marlo Swann McNair Plowden, 28, a designer from a nearby affluent home who is leading a campaign against a Gail's bakery opening in Brixton.
BCP Council approved a contested mosque expansion, citing equality legislation, while some residents claimed councillors feared being labelled racist if they refused it.
A Florida family says police were called after opposing parents complained their three-year-old soccer player, competing against older children, was too talented.
Another UK Christmas market has been cancelled amid a council funding dispute, as local festive events nationwide face funding shortfalls and fewer volunteers.
Veterans say they were told to remove their poppies before entering The Star, a Wetherspoons pub in Gosport, Hampshire, on Sunday afternoon.
Oxford Street has permanently closed to vehicles as London Mayor Sadiq Khan's £150m pedestrianisation plan begins, amid concerns about how the change will be managed.
A Daily Mail columnist criticises the City Bridge Foundation, which maintains the City of London's Thames bridges, for funding grants to trans rights, asylum seeker and other groups.
The Daily Mail reports that pedicab operators in London have set up a makeshift camp near Buckingham Palace, sleeping in their vehicles and relieving themselves nearby.
An Essex council hosting Britain's largest asylum site spent £40,000 on extra policing while £2.7m in mitigation grants remains unspent, prompting criticism from local residents.
Residents of South Warnborough, Hampshire, say they feel unsafe after a group of travellers cleared a field and set up an unauthorised encampment over the August Bank Holiday.
Travellers who cleared greenbelt land on Townsend Avenue in Merseyside and moved caravans onto it after the August Bank Holiday have been ordered to reverse the work.
Campaigners in Piddington, Oxfordshire, are suing the Home Office, arguing its plan to house 1,256 asylum seekers at a former MoD site unlawfully ignored wildlife impacts.
Nearly a dozen caravans and cars entered Beaufort Park in east Birmingham, reportedly breaking through gates, marking the fifth such encampment there this year.
A London bridges charity faces scrutiny over a £1.17 million grant awarded in 2023 to Muslim Charities Forum, whose treasurer has alleged links to Hamas.
A 59-year-old man who moved his wife and young twin daughters into an over-55s retirement flat in Reading in 2024 has left, according to residents.
Planners ordered a Chichester homeowner to remove a fence he moved closer to a public footpath, deeming it too overbearing for walkers.
Activists put up posters depicting bombs strapped to bread at Gail's new Brixton bakery over alleged Israeli ties the company denies, drawing condemnation from the Campaign Against Antisemitism.
Liberal Democrat councillor Adrian Chapmanlaw was suspended after refusing to remove a video of illegal parking outside a primary school following safeguarding complaints about pupils.
Before a Friday night rivalry game between Portland's Grant and Jefferson high schools, a football player collided with an opposing player carrying an American flag on the field.
Birmingham City Council has dug trenches around at least three city parks in recent months to prevent travellers' vans from illegally occupying the sites.
Drone footage shows a traveller encampment with caravans set up on Muswell Hill playing fields in north London, near Coldfall Wood nature reserve.
An analysis finds metropolitan borough councils receive about £1,011 per child for children's services versus £39 in county and rural authorities, prompting accusations against Labour.
The Home Office has advertised seven jobs at Haslar Immigration Removal Centre in Hampshire as the government moves forward with plans to expand the facility.
Accounts show Strathclyde Pension Fund holds £12bn more than needed to pay its nearly 300,000 members' pensions, prompting criticism amid strained council services.
Critics allege a Labour government funding change shifts money from Conservative-run rural councils to Labour-run town halls, prompting claims it rewards failure.
Labour is threatening to end council coalitions with the Green Party over a Green motion declaring 'Zionism is racism', potentially affecting control of nine English councils.
Police and crime commissioner Donna Jones urged Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood to stop small boat landings in Portsmouth and Gosport, citing £800,000 in policing costs from protests.
Independent BCP councillor Mark Howell wore a Palestine football shirt to a council meeting attended by two Jewish colleagues, prompting accusations of anti-Semitism.
A former property guardian living in a flat at The Cricketers in Kennington was awarded damages after the music venue owner was found guilty of harassment over demolition work.
Women from Piddington visited Parliament as Conservatives opposed government plans to house about 1,256 male asylum seekers at a former MoD site near Bicester, Oxfordshire.
An unauthorised travellers' camp, where workers began laying caravan hardstanding on a field in Ashley Green, Buckinghamshire, has been ordered to leave the site.
A London police force is reportedly offering cyclists caught running red lights or zebra crossings the option of watching a 47-second safety video instead of a £50 fine.
A Derbyshire County Council officer told record office staff to withhold documents from David Ball and report his visits, following a dispute over his elderly mother's garden gate.
Video shows a Bay Area engineer poisoning a female co-worker's drinks; after completing two years' probation, he now seeks to have his felony conviction expunged.
Land near Hockley, Essex, sold by Trinity College Cambridge for £100,000 was paved and turned into a caravan site by travellers without authorisation over a bank holiday weekend.
Footage shows Bournemouth Lib Dem councillor Adrian Chapmanlaw, who posts videos of bad driving online, cycling behind a police car responding to an emergency to avoid traffic.
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