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UK Prisoner in Sex Video Scandal With Female Warden Speaks Out, Exposes Jail Staff Corruption

Inmate Linton Weirich reveals details of his relationship with a former prison officer and exposes corruption at HMP Wandsworth.

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Brent Labour does deal with Tories after Starmer bans party from working with Greens

Seven London councils - Brent, Barnet, Enfield, Haringey, Wandsworth, Lambeth and Southwark - fell from Labour to no overall control at the local elections on May 7

Evening Standard

London local elections 2026: 'We're very optimistic' at regaining Westminster, Wandsworth and Barnet, says Badenoch

In an exclusive interview with The Standard, the Tory leader also stressed that Golders Green was the ‘frontline’ in a surge in antisemitism plaguing Britain

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London Tory local election candidate suspended after saying 'Hitler was right'

Helena Kanaan, who was running for the Roehampton seat on Wandsworth council, made the comment in response to an online argument between Piers Morgan and self-described misogynist influencer Andrew Tate

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South London council's claim of tax freeze may 'mislead' residents, UKSA warns

While the authority froze its ‘core’ council tax, the overall bill for residents rose by roughly 3%

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Labour council warned of ‘potential to mislead’ taxpayers over frozen tax claim

The UK Statistics Authority has written to Wandsworth Council about the claim it is freezing council tax for the fourth consecutive year.

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Labour 'risks losing 600 seats' in London local elections in worse nightmare than Gorton disaster

Sir Keir Starmer’s party is facing tough battles against the Greens, Reform UK, the Conservatives and the Lib Dems

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Revealed: Ministers plot £150 'stealth' rise in council tax in London boroughs

The Conservatives are accusing the Government of ‘burying’ the proposed tax increase in the small print of local government funding reforms

Evening Standard

How much is my council tax going up? Average Londoner to see £87 hike in bills today

Wandsworth residents pay less than half the amount of those living in Lewisham, Redbridge, Hackney or Barking and Dagenham

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Exclusive: Labour facing 'fierce battles' to keep hold of at least 12 London boroughs in May local elections

Sir Keir Starmer’s party faces a ‘torrid time’ as it seeks to defend more than 1,150 seats ‘on five fronts’ against the Tories, Reform UK, Liberal Democrats, Greens and pro-Gaza independents, says leading pollster

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Sadiq Khan warns Labour will lose councillors in 'challenging' London borough elections

Westminster, Wandsworth and Barnet all on a knife-edge - while Reform UK could win in Tory boroughs

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How much is your council tax going up? Thousands more Londoners face bills over £2,000 for first time

Average households in half of London boroughs are expected to see hikes of over £100

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When it’s developers v people, usually the money wins. I saw how one community came out on top

A social housing victory at the ‘luxury’ Battersea power station development shows the power of grassroots politics – and holds a lesson for all of our cities, says Guardian assistant opinion editor Jason Okundaye

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Six councils granted power to raise council tax without needing to consult residents

The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has estimated that Wandsworth and Westminster councils would need to hike council tax by as much as 75 per cent to balance the books in the wake of government reforms

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Londoners face eye-watering 75% council tax hikes in Government funding shake up

The IFS said eye-watering 75% increases in council tax could be seen in some London boroughs with historically lower bills

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London teenager who threatened to blow up school collected homemade guns and explosives in his bedroom

Sakhile Ntsele, 18, from Wandsworth, stored terrifying armoury of homemade guns and explosives in his home

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Revealed: The 600,000 London homes that could be revalued under Budget 'mansion tax'

Homes in Westminster, Kensington and Chelsea, Camden, Barnet, Richmond, Wandsworth and Hammersmith and Fulham are in the Chancellor’s firing line

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More than 200 new council homes to be built at Battersea Power Station

There are currently around 9,500 households on the housing waiting list in Wandsworth

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AI chatbot is Government's new recruit at HMP Wandsworth to stop inmates being wrongly freed

Prisons minister Lord Timpson said the southwest London jail had been given the ‘green light’ to use artificial intelligence

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Council tax hikes: Thousands of Londoners to pay for first time while some face bills doubling

Kensington and Chelsea is expected to follow in the footsteps of Wandsworth, Westminster and Hackney and double council tax bills for some home owners in the borough

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on mistaken prisoner releases: a broken system not human error

Editorial: Recent cases of prisoners let go by mistake rightly disturb the public. But they reflect the overstretched and underfunded criminal justice architecture

Evening Standard

Smiling wrongly released prisoner William Smith hands himself back in to Wandsworth prison

Convicted fraudster William ‘Billy’ Smith smiled and waved as he walked back into the south London jail

The Guardian - UK

Mistakenly released prisoner Billy Smith turns himself in

Police continue hunt for Algerian sex offender Brahim Kaddour-Cherif as fraudster returns to Wandsworth jail

Evening Standard

Robert Jenrick accuses David Lammy of 'Bulls****' on live TV amid row over mistaken prisoner releases

The comment came as pressure piles on the Justice Secretary after prisoners were mistakenly released from HMP Wandsworth

Evening Standard

Prisoner manhunt continues as Lammy faces slew of questions

Police are trying to track down two inmates released in the last week from HMP Wandsworth.

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