Day: January 27, 2023
Huge Black Boy Lane sign put up days after new road name was defaced
January 27, 2023A huge new Black Boy Lane sign has been put up days after its new road name was defaced in North London. Black Boy Lane in Tottenham was renamed La Rose Lane, after a campaign by Black Lives Matter supporters due to concerns about its racial connotations. But just 24 hours later black paint has […]
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Man found naked after killing his dad with bottle of Bollinger champagne
January 27, 2023A man is facing life in jail for bludgeoning his elderly father to death with a bottle of Champagne. Deekan Singh Vig, who carried out the vicious assault in a drunken rage, was found naked by police. He told officers: ”I killed my dad. I hit him over the head with a f***ing bloody bottle […]
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Man dies after being ‘crushed by urinal’ outside London theatre
January 27, 2023A man has died after he was crushed by a public toilet in London. Emergency services gathered outside the Palace Theatre, on the corner of Shaftesbury Avenue, this afternoon. An air ambulance also landed at nearby Trafalgar Square. It is understood a man installing a telescopic urinal – a type of public toilet – was […]
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People in London street describe lucky escapes as building collapses around them
January 27, 2023Residents have described barely making it out in time as their building began collapsing around them. Emergency crews rushed to Stoke Newington High Street in north London on Friday morning when lumps of masonry and pieces of scaffolding started crashing onto the pavement. Video footage shows builders screaming at shoppers to stand back to avoid […]
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Man handed £200,000 legal bill over Japanese knotweed may have to sell new home
January 27, 2023An accountant fears he will have to sell his new home following a £200,000 legal bill over some Japanese knotweed growing at his old house. When Jeremy Henderson, 41, sold his £700,000 house in Raynes Park, London, in 2018 he signed a form declaring there was no knotweed on the property. But shortly after moving […]
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Driver fined £195 after pulling into bus lane to let police van past
January 27, 2023A motorist was fined nearly £200 for pulling into a bus lane to let a police van pass. Stephen James, 37, was driving along Forest Road in Walthamstow, east London, when the patrol vehicle weaved in and out of traffic to get by him and other cars on September 13 last year. CCTV stills show […]
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Pictures from Auschwitz show haunting human reality of Holocaust
January 27, 2023Photos taken by Nazis in Auschwitz are being shown in London to help ‘bring humanity back to the victims’. Today marks Holocaust Memorial Day, which dedicated to the remembrance of the Jews and others who suffered under Nazi persecution. ‘Seeing Auschwitz’ is a new exhibition which displays images originally intended to document the ‘progress’ Nazis were […]
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Firefighters called to blaze at heritage-listed London church
January 27, 2023D ozens of firefighters were battling a blaze at a heritage-listed church in north-west London early on Friday morning. Some 80 firefighters have been sent to St Mark’s Church in Hamilton Terrace, St John’s Wood, the London Fire Brigade (LFB) said. The whole of the two-storey building is alight, with residents asked to keep doors […]
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New test could detect Alzheimer’s disease 3.5 years before diagnosis – study
January 27, 2023A new test could detect Alzheimer’s disease three and a half years before it is diagnosed, a new study suggests. The new research from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London has established a blood-based test that could predict the risk of the condition. The study supports the idea that […]
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Antisemitism rising because of a lack of Holocaust education, survivor says
January 27, 2023A 92-year-old Holocaust survivor said antisemitism is on the rise because young people are not learning about the Holocaust as much anymore. Vera Schaufeld came to England via the Kindertransport, a movement that was set up to evacuate Jewish children from Germany in the wake of Kristallnacht – a night of Nazi-coordinated violence in November […]
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