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What I Rent: I’m paying £1,250 for my Acton flat — but a little-known scheme means I’ll buy it in three years Welcome back to What I Rent – Metro’s tenant diary series exploring what renting is like in the UK and further afield. Last week, we visited Maisy Dewey and Harrison Kent, who moved to London from Philadelphia last year. As they struggled to find a pet-friendly property that would accommodate their dog, Kipper Von Spot, they took the plunge and rented a houseboat on the Thames. This week, we’re back on dry land in West London having a nosy around 25-year-old Tia Costell’s…

This set of steps near a busy railway station has been rated London’s worst | UK News Londoners have expressed their outrage over ‘bizarre’ steps near a busy station, claiming the slanted stairway is the ‘worst in London’. Commuters and visitors making their way in and out of London Bridge station have taken to social media to express their dismay at the station’s impractical stairway. The peculiar slanted design has led to some passengers claiming the steps are ‘dodgy’, and mean that pedestrians have to focus more in order to exit and enter the station. Opened 187 years ago, in…

80s legend’s house up for rent for a staggering £65,000 per month Ever fancied living like the stars? You can now do just that as one 80s music legend has placed their house up for rent for a staggering £65,000 per month. Boy George rose to fame as the lead singer of Culture Club, known for hits like Karma Chameleon, Do You Really Want To Hurt Me and Love Is Love – and now, he’s reportedly searching for a tenant for his five-bedroom property in Hampstead. As Julia Garber at estate agents Robert Irving Burns tells the Evening Standard, the…

Wetherspoons could open pub in former London dungeon | UK News A new Wetherspoons pub could soon open inside the railway arches which were once home to the London Dungeon attraction. The Sun Wharf pub has been proposed for the railway arches on Tooley Street, which runs alongside London Bridge station, from 6.30am to 12.30am daily. The name is thought to reference one of the wharves in east London where imports from Australia arrived. If the pub does open, it will be the first time the arch on Tooley Street has been used since 2013, when the London Dungeon attraction…

Sunday’s newspaper front pages are dominated by domestic politics as the Labour Party prepares to hold its first conference in government for 15 years. The upcoming conference comes amid reports of infighting in Downing Street and a row over political donations.