A total of 26 sex toys were handed in to TfL from London’s Tube, bus, and train network after being lost last year. Of these, only six toys ever made their way back to their owners. Transport for London’s lost property discovered five of the adult sex toys on their own while the majority (21) […]
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Countries that subsidise wind power like the UK are “stupid”, Donald Trump has said, as he announced nearly 700 million dollars (£521 million) of support for the US coal industry. The president argued many successful nations, such as China, use the fossil fuel, while “the real great failures” had adopted the renewable energy source. Mr […]
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Sir Keir Starmer’s Government has rejected an intervention from the Trump administration over Henry Nowak’s murder in which it said so-called two-tier policing is taking place in the UK. Downing Street dismissed the suggestion, echoing Justice Secretary David Lammy, who had earlier said it did not chime with his experience. The Liberal Democrats have called […]
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A British veteran who travelled to Normandy to mark the 82nd commemoration of D-Day said some of his more traumatic memories need “weeding out” and still disturb his sleep. Ken Hay, 100, attended a remembrance service at the General Montgomery monument in Colleville-Montgomery with fellow Second World War veteran Henry Rice, 100, on Friday. The […]
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The bathing ponds at Hampstead Heath in north-west London will remain trans-inclusive after a public consultation overwhelmingly favoured its existing rules. There are gender-segregated ponds for men and women, with trans people able to swim in whichever they feel most appropriate, or use the heath’s mixed-gender pond instead. The City of London Corporation (CLC), which […]
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The family of a girl left brain-damaged at birth have agreed to accept £28m in damages after the NHS trust involved admitted that its mistakes led to the tragedy. Barking, Havering and Redbridge university hospitals NHS trust failed to monitor the baby’s heart rate while her mother was in labour or ask an obstetrician to […]
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What can be done to protect London’s late-night culture and help it flourish? That was the big question at SXSW London today when some of the biggest voices in the city’s scene came together for the Last Night a DJ Saved My Night panel. Fabric co-founder Cameron Leslie, Black Lives in Music CEO Charisse Beaumont […]
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Nigel Farage has been spotted leaving a private members’ club in London after he was accused of trying to ‘create division’ following Henry Nowak’s murder. The Reform UK leader called for ‘pure, cold rage’ in response to the 18-year-old’s death, which he blamed on a culture of ‘anti-white prejudice’ in a video on Tuesday, which […]
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Without a shadow of a doubt, the Barbican is one of London’s most iconic residential estates. Often described as a ‘city within a city,’ the Estate is home to 4,000 residents, and it famously blends the grandeur of its brutalist architecture with a community-driven lifestyle. More than four decades since its opening, the estate remains […]
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Craig Munro Published June 4, 2026 12:53pm Updated June 4, 2026 1:14pm TikTok users are being warned to keep an eye out for tax scams after two men were arrested in east London over an alleged scheme involving £153million in fraudulent claims. The pair, aged 22 and 25, have been accused of luring Brits into […]
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