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Restaurant workers threw chairs and tables during a visit by immigration officers last year, a council committee heard. Al Balad was fined more than £200,000 after immigration officers repeatedly found breaches on at least five separate occasions at the premises on Edgware Road near Paddington. Home Office documents show, that during one enforcement visit last…
by Ryan Prosser
NatWest will close two more branches in central London by August, leaving it with just one location in the West End. Councillors have expressed alarm at the potential impact on older communities after the bank announced it would close its stores on Baker Street and Spring Street in Paddington on August 7. Over 1,350 banks…
by Ryan Prosser
A teenager has been charged with the stabbing of a 17-year-old boy in Paddington. The suspect, aged 16, was arrested on Wednesday and will appear at a court in Highbury on Thursday. Two other teenage boys were also arrested on suspicion of murder in connection with the incident which occurred on Monday in St Mary’s…
by Ryan Prosser