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Image shows a mountain of piled-up mattresses, surrounded by other miscellaneous bits of garbage.

Harrow’s “mattress mountain” continues to frustrate locals

Posted on Dec 10, 2021 by Riddhi Kachhela
A fly-tipping hotspot on Harrow High Street, where personal items like microwaves and mattresses are dumped illegally, remains messy despite...Read More
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Fur and Loving in Leatherhead

Posted on Dec 9, 2021Dec 9, 2021 by Joe Skirkowski
Leatherhead is a little town tucked in just south of the M25. According to Wikipedia, it has a population of...Read More
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Raven’s Guide: The Twelve Sandwiches of Christmas  

Posted on Dec 8, 2021Dec 9, 2021 by Kathryn Dalziel
Listen, we get it. It’s cold, it’s dark, and everyone’s on strike. The pandemic rages on and your Spotify Wrapped was a bigger...Read More

Punched: veracious stories of victims of gender-based violence

Posted on Dec 8, 2021 by Raven News
One in three women will be abused in their lifetime, and in times of crisis the numbers rise. Four hundred thousand more...Read More

Financial constraints force TfL to scrap free London Underground travel on NYE

Posted on Dec 7, 2021 by Ananya Rao
Free tube travel on New Year's Eve has been scrapped for the second consecutive year owing to the "catastrophic impact...Read More

World AIDS Day: London’s quest to end HIV diagnoses by 2030

Posted on Dec 5, 2021Dec 10, 2021 by Aashna Jain
On December 1st, 2021, London was lit up to celebrate World AIDS Day. The event highlights the global fight against...Read More

Night tube strike amplifies women’s safety debate

Posted on Dec 4, 2021Dec 4, 2021 by Ruth Berry
This weekend's strike by the Railway, Maritime, and Transport workers (RMT) union is set to disrupt London’s night tube for...Read More

Rally in London’s Chinatown descends into violence

Posted on Dec 4, 2021 by Khushi Jain
A rally against racism towards the Chinese and wider Asian community descended into violence last week, when members of the...Read More

Modern slavery cases increasing in London 

Posted on Dec 3, 2021Dec 3, 2021 by Daniela Rivera Samayoa
Reported cases of modern slavery have been on the rise in the United Kingdom throughout the last decade, and London is one of the UK's...Read More

An Afghan artist starts a new life as a Goldsmiths student In London

Posted on Dec 1, 2021Dec 2, 2021 by Riddhi Kachhela
After living under a constant threat of being abducted by the Taliban, a twenty-seven-year-old Afghan artist from Kabul arrived in London last week to pursue his Masters in Fine Arts at Goldsmiths, University of London.   Altaf*, who worked as...Read More

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