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Outrage LSE rugby club leaflets calling women 'slags and mingers'

Inquiry: the London School of Economics (Picture: Getty)

The London School of Economics has launched an urgent inquiry after its rugby club handed out leaflets referring to women as slags, mingers and crumpets.

Mass killer detained after police find 'frightening arsenal' of explosives at his home

Convicted killer: Harry Street, formerly known as Barry Williams

Killer Harry Street, who shot dead five people in 1978, has been detained indefinitely after a "frightening arsenal" of explosives and guns was found at his home.

Appeal for witnesses after flasher 'exposes herself to woman on a bus in Dalston'

Police are appealing for information after a bus passenger allegedly exposed herself to another woman and tried to touch her.

Man 'fighting for his life' after being stabbed in exclusive Fitzrovia flat

Attack: first aid equipment on the pavement next to the block of flats (Picture: Nigel Howard)

Police said the victim suffered “life-threatening injuries” in the attack in an apartment above an upmarket furniture design shop in Mortimer Street, Fitzrovia.

London crowned 'world's most desirable city in which to work'

World-beater: London fought off competition from New York and Paris (Picture: Jeremy Selwyn)

London has triumphed over New York and Paris to be crowned the world's most desirable city in which to work, according to a new study.

Madeleine McCann 'Twitter troll' found dead in hotel room

Brenda Leyland, 63, was identified as one of the "trolls" writing online hate messages aimed at the McCanns.

Student killed by hit-and-run driver in east London after leaving party

Victim: Kieran Dhaliwal, 20, was knocked down outside Queen Mary University of London in Mile End (Picture: Facebook)

A student was killed by a hit-and-run driver as he walked home from a housewarming party to mark the start of his final year at university.

Alice Gross murder: post-mortem examination to be carried out on body of prime suspect Arnis Zalkalns

Investigation: a tent erected at the scene in Boston Manor park where the body of Arnis Zalkalns was found (Picture: REX)

The badly decomposed corpse of the Latvian builder was found hanged a mile from the river where Alice Gross’s body was recovered.

IS fly black flag in Kobani raising fears that jihadists have captured key border town near Turkey

Trademark: the IS flag displayed by militants in the east of Syrian Kobani city (EPA/SEDAT SUNA)

The black flag of the Islamic State (IS) has reportedly been raised in the Syrian border town of Kobani raising fears that it has fallen to militant jihadists.

Stressed City bankers to get health centre for addiction treatment

Stressful life: Margot Robbie and Leonardo DiCaprio in The Wolf of Wall Street

Stressed City bankers who sink into Wolf of Wall Street-style alcohol and drug abuse could soon get a £2.5 million public health centre to help with addiction problems.

Plans for £5bn new town on Grand Union Canal to spark battle with QPR

Grand schemes: QPR chairman Tony Fernandes has plans for the site

A £5 billion new town on the banks of the Grand Union Canal is being planned for the vast Cargiant supermarket site at Old Oak Common, the Standard has learned.

Drugs gang jailed for more than 40 years after Met makes £6m haul

Five members of a drug trafficking gang have been jailed for a total of more than 40 years after police seized drugs with a street value of about £6million.

British-Iranian jailed in Iran 'for watching men's volleyball match' goes on hunger strike

Former London student Ghoncheh Ghavami has been held in the infamous Evin prison in Tehran for more than three months.

Dean Mayley murder: 'Killing ripped our family apart'

Tragedy: Dean Mayley with his sister Laura.

The mother of a man with a mental age of nine who was stabbed to death said her family had been “ripped apart” after his killers were jailed for at least 59 years.

Campaigners celebrate as they save their historic Hackney pub

Community asset: locals worked to save the Chesham Arms in Hackney

The Chesham Arms closed two years ago after almost 150 years.

Paddington train delays: chaos as services into London cancelled

Passengers were advised not to travel into the station as dozens of services into London were delayed or cancelled.

Speed-the-Plow, Playhouse Theatre: 'Far from being the train wreck that’s been gleefully predicted, Lindsay Lohan’s stage debut is competent'

The Lindsay show: Lindsay Lohan as Karen and Nigel Lindsay as Charlie in Speed-the-Plow (Pic: Ian West/PA Wire)

Theatre review: All eyes are on Lindsay Lohan and the sceptics who’ve been dying to see her fall on her face will be disappointed.

Alan Davies, Indigo at The O2: 'It's part-Micky Flanagan, part-Frank Skinner. Unoriginal yet very effective'

Blokey jokes: Alan Davies (Picture: Brian Jordan/Retna Pictures)

Comedy review: Alan Davies's latest show features shameless nostalgia, fart jokes and a moving portrait of British eccentricity.

Pierrre Huyghe, Hauser and Wirth: 'a stimulant for the mind and the emotions'

Apocalyptic ape: a still from Huyghe’s video Human Mask, in which a waitress in a Japanese restaurant is, on closer inspection, a monkey

Exhibition review: A show of visual beauty and of sensory surprise that's among this year’s best contemporary shows.

SBTRKT, O2 Academy Brixton

Hidden assets: like deadmau5 and Daft Punk before him, SBTRKT performs in disguise, in his case a Native American mask (Picture: Gaelle Beri/Redferns via Getty)

Music review: Backed by a drummer and a percussionist, the man in the mask delivered a performance with far more pluses than minuses.

Tredwell's: Marcus Wareing's long-awaited latest venture is a rather cynical affair

Restaurant of the Week: Tredwell’s isn’t incompetent, it’s cynical, says David Sexton.

Stephen Fry, Festival Hall: 'a warm testament to Fry’s unique charm'

More Fool Me: Stephen Fry / Pic: Steve Ullathorne

Comedy review: "Chatter ranged from the part that cocaine once played in what he called his “ill-judged life” to Putin’s resemblance to Dobby the House Elf".

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Sardine time: Thameslink CEO wants to give more passengers the chance to stand on his trains (Picture: Glenn Copus)

Letters to the editor: How to curb Muslim radicalism

Martin Bright is quite right: it is not the Government’s place to dictate what constitutes Islam. Our Government should, however, act to stop states like Saudi Arabia from doing the same to British Muslims, through their prolific funding of hardline Islamist literature and certain UK-based proselytising dawah charities.

George Eaton: Reports of the Lib-Dems’ death are exaggerated

Evening Standard comment: Making the case for coalition government

Sam Leith: At last we can be grown up about drugs

Michael Collins: Don’t sneer at the real England beyond the M25

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It’s a gamble: cheap fares to cities such as Baltimore depend on luck (Picture: Stock Connection/Rex)

Simon Calder says: to buy or not to buy - the flyer's dilemma

During the British Airways sale I bought a return flight from Heathrow to Baltimore, departing on November 11 for a month, for £626 return. A week later the fare had fallen to £468. I booked in good faith assuming it was the best price. Why did the fare fall after the sale came to an end, not increase? — Lynda Thomas

Swish swiss precision: Chalet Sirocco

How bazaar: a cultural hideaway outside Marrakech

Team Murdoch or team Freud? who backs whom in the divorce of the decade

London lunch box: a recipe inspired by Picture restaurant in Fitzrovia

Wandsworth: the new-homes champion of London

Already famous for its low council tax, leafy commons and Nappy Valley yummy mummies, Wandsworth is now set to be the new-homes champion of London.

Hoxton: a property guide to hipster central

Derelict in the Eighties, this part of London has become the achingly cool place to be. It may still edgy but it's no longer a bargain.

A tale of two London villages: Brackenbury village and Askew village

The best trick for London buyers is to catch an area before house prices are set to soar.

Join us at an exclusive Farrow & Ball event this Wednesday tonight

Farrow & Ball invites readers to an exclusive event at the Japanese restaurant Yashin Ocean House, in Kensington, to celebrate their new wallpaper launch.

New cities on the Thames: plans to transform London's river by 2020 are underway

The Thames is at the heart of a greener and more sustainable London with plans for new floating villages, piers, Victorian-type pleasure gardens, cheap rental offices and thousands of new homes.