London commuters about to see a massive Tube and rail fare rise
December 11, 2025
The Queen got into the festive spirit as she joined children with life-shortening conditions in Queen Victoria’s former sled. Every year, Queen Camilla hosts families supported by charities Helen & Douglas House and Roald Dahl‘s Marvellous Children’s Charity. Her equerry decorates a tree with them and they receive gifts from Santa. Image: Soldiers chat with […]
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Transatlantic cable equipment, an Arts and Crafts garden with gnomes and elves and an “exceptionally” rare shipwreck are among the unusual heritage protected in 2025. Government heritage agency Historic England has highlighted 19 of the most remarkable buildings and places given new or updated listed status this year – from a neolithic burial mound in […]
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The 2025 HebCelt music festival boosted the Outer Hebrides economy by a record £4.4 million, the event’s organisers have announced. This year’s festival, which took place in July and featured the likes of Lulu, Tide Lines and Skerryvore, generated £400,000 more for the area than it did in 2024, and nearly £700,000 more than in […]
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The subjects that would not be eligible for on-screen exams at this point include A-level and GCSE maths, as well as GCSE English language, literature, combined science, biology, chemistry, physics, history, geography, religious studies, French, Spanish and business.
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Brooke Davies Published December 11, 2025 12:00am Updated December 11, 2025 8:04am London’s famous pickpocket hunter has been able to quit his full time job to catch thieves all day due to the sheer amount of donations he has received. Diego Galdino is now able to ‘up his game’ due to the sheer generosity of […]
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British classics Toffee Crisp and Blue Riband bars can no longer be referred to as “chocolate” after the latest changes made to their recipe. In the UK, in order to be called milk chocolate, a product must be made up of at least 20% milk solids and 20% chocolate solids. But both products have fallen […]
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A doctor’s strike may be called off, prompting Wes Streeting to accuse the doctors’ union of “playing games with patients’ lives”. This comes after the union was made a fresh offer by the Health Secretary, who delayed a decision to call off the strikes. Mr Streeting warned that a strike over Christmas would carry with […]
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No 10 publishes list of 34 new political peerages – including 25 Labour, 5 Lib Dems and 3 Tories Downing Street has published a list of political peerages. There are 25 new Labour peers on the list, five new Lib Dem peers, three new Tory ones. Three of the peers on the list are hereditary […]
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Half of people arrested recently in London were found to potentially have undiagnosed ADHD, according to a study calling for better neurodivergence screening for vulnerable individuals. Research by the University of Cambridge found that one in two individuals arrested and detained over an eight-week period in London in 2024 may have undiagnosed attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder […]
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Noora Mykkanen Published December 10, 2025 1:15pm Updated December 10, 2025 5:01pm A manhunt has been launched after an unsuspecting train worker was left with painful injuries from a chemical attack. The assault unfolded at the busy Blackfriars central London train station at rush hour on May 17 when the victim was guarding the ticket […]
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