Hundreds in emergency accommodation after fire at Maida Vale flats

No seats taken by Reform or Greens

People hampered by the tube strikes this week may have turned to the bicycles as alternatives

Nell Frizzell jumped at the chance to bring together two passions – writing and swimming – in a book celebrating a centenary of the Heath’s Ladies’ Pond. Dan Carrier dives in...

A new book puts to bed the myth that it was a benevolent British state that put an end to slavery. Angela Cobbinah reports