Lord Peter Mandelson’s appointment was announced before his security vetting was completed (Jordan Pettitt/PA) PA Wire Discussing the vetting of Lord Peter Mandelson as British ambassador to the US, Scottish Secretary Douglas Alexander told BBC Breakfast: “That was actually the process for the appointment of political appointees to ambassadors that we inherited as a Government.” […]
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Sir Keir Starmer told MPs it was “staggering” that he was not told Lord Peter Mandelson had failed vetting checks and acknowledged Parliament should have known about it “a long time ago”. The Prime Minister said Foreign Office officials had approved Lord Mandelson’s developed vetting status, enabling him to see secret information as ambassador to […]
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Shoplifting in London has trebled in the last five years, new data has revealed as the Mayor of London was urged to lobby the government for more funding for the Metropolitan Police. Research from the Liberal Democrats showed that there were were 93,626 cases of shoplifting raised with the Metropolitan Police in 2024/2025 – up […]
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A strike by London Underground drivers will severely disrupt transport in the capital over the next four days. The RMT union and Transport for London (TfL) said that the strike would go ahead from midday on Tuesday 21 April, with no last-minute talks planned on Monday. How disruptive will the strike be? Just under half […]
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A London judge ruled Monday against the father of Amy Winehouse who sued his daughter’s friends for profiting off the late singer’s memorabilia. Mitch Winehouse, who was administrator of this daughter’s estate, sued Naomi Parry and Catriona Gourlay in the High Court over the $1.2 million (890,000 pounds) they earned at auction in the U.S. […]
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John Dunne Published April 20, 2026 1:47pm Updated April 20, 2026 1:52pm This is the moment a masked suspect ‘hurls a firebomb’ through the window of a north west London synagogue. Counter-terror police are investigating the attack on Kenton United Synagogue in Shaftesbury Avenue, Harrow, at around midnight on Sunday. A bottle containing an accelerant was […]
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Here is a voyage along the Thames estuary from film-maker Pablo Behrens: an eccentric experimental documentary, a bit indulgent and not altogether thought through, but mostly engaging. Like Iain Sinclair, JG Ballard and Rachel Lichtenstein, Behrens is drawn to the unloved stretch of water between London and the sea, where the wildness of mudflats and […]
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Michael Beckwith Published April 20, 2026 12:00pm Updated April 20, 2026 12:00pm A TikTok video by a fan has done more to promote the new London store than Nintendo itself has. Last October, Nintendo opened one of its Nintendo Stores in London, which was the first of its kind in Europe, after being exclusively an […]
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