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Death at Liverpool Street Station
BTP publish a weekly incident roundup on their site but its pretty sparse, usually just major stuff like someone hit by a train or a stabbing. A collapse with no obvious cause would prob just get logged as a "sudden death" and that's it unless a reporter happened to be on the concourse. Worth checking the local rags though, MyLondon and the Standard do trawl police press releases for anything with a station name attached. If it was near the tube entrance rather than the mainline bit the reporting might fall under TfL instead which changes who even bothers to put a line out.
Something that rarely gets mentioned is that Liverpool Street has its own station control room and they log everything in a daily occurrence book, though you'd need a reason to see it. The practical route for a member of the public is a Subject Access Request if you were involved, or a coroner's request if you weren't, since the coroner can compel the operator to hand over the log and any witness statements. Realistically a collapse with no crime attached just becomes a line in a spreadsheet and nobody outside the railway ever reads it.
quick correction on the geography, liverpool street mainline concourse is actually square mile so city of london police & the city coroner, but the tube side and the broadgate exits spill into hackney, and that split is why the reporting gets messy. the city of london coroner sits at the old bailey too not a separate court, so if it does end up as an inquest you'd be checking their listings rather than inner north london. mylondon barely touches square mile stuff, they lean hackney & tower hamlets, so a death on the mainline concourse is genuinely in a news dead zone
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What are some innovative ways to anonymously compare rental prices in a city?
SpareRoom's "rooms wanted" ads are underrated for this. people post what they're currently paying alongside what they want next, so you can scrape a rough sense of going rates by postcode without anyone knowing you looked. it skews young and flatshare heavy tho, so not much use if you're after 2-beds in zone 2.
Another one is just the depozit or tenancy deposit scheme data. not public-facing, but your council's housing officer can tell you median rents from deposit registrations if you email them under FOI. takes weeks, but its proper anon and nobody clocks u.
Rightmove and Zoopla only show asking rents, which are often 10 to 15 percent above what a place actually goes for, so they're a poor benchmark. The trick I've used is the ONS Price Index of Private Rents, which breaks things down to borough level and is genuinely anonymous since it's aggregate data, no listing or account needed. For something more granular, the London Renters Union runs a rent reporting tool where you submit what you're paying with your postcode and it maps it against others nearby, though the coverage is patchy outside the inner boroughs.
the openrent "rent check" thing is decent for zones 3-4 where the unions tool barely reaches. also worth checking the london.gov.uk planning portal for new build applications, they list "affordable" and market rent figures per unit in the viability assessments, which is basically the developer telling the council what they expect to charge. bit of a faff to dig through but its public, anonymous & nobody knows ur looking