Day: February 19, 2023

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Man dies after motorcycle ploughs into pedestrians in London

February 19, 2023

A man has died and three others have been injured after a motorcycle collided with a group of pedestrians in southeast London. Emergency services were called to the scene on Plumstead Road in Woolwich at around 7.30pm. The police, London Ambulance Service and the Air Ambulance all attended. The man died at the scene, and […]

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London to offer free school meals to all primary pupils for a year

February 19, 2023

Free school meals will be offered to all primary school pupils across London for a year under plans by Sadiq Khan to tackle what he said was a failure by ministers to step up support during the cost of living crisis. The move will come into force from September, saving families about £440 for every […]

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Pressure going to go both ways – Yaya Toure unsure how title race will play out thumbnail

Pressure going to go both ways – Yaya Toure unsure how title race will play out

February 19, 2023

Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for free Sign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter Yaya Toure believes both Manchester City and Arsenal will be feeling the pressure as they battle it out at the top of the Premier League. Arsenal sit two points clear at […]

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Dame Helen Mirren remembers the Queen as the ‘nation’s leading star’ at Baftas thumbnail

Dame Helen Mirren remembers the Queen as the ‘nation’s leading star’ at Baftas

February 19, 2023

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Dame Helen Mirren has remembered the Queen as the “nation’s leading star” as she lead a special tribute to the late monarch at the Bafta film awards. The […]

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Police recover body from river near where Nicola Bulley went missing

February 19, 2023

Police searching for missing mother-of-two Nicola Bulley have recovered a body from the river near to where she went missing. The body was found around a mile from where Ms Bulley was last seen walking her dog, beside the River Wyre, in St Michael’s on Wyre, after dropping her daughters at school on 27 January. […]

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Starmer says path to Labour victory ‘must run through Scotland’ in pitch to SNP voters

February 19, 2023

Sir Keir Starmer said the path to a Labour victory “must run through Scotland” as he urged SNP voters to put their faith in his party in the wake of Nicola Sturgeon’s resignation. Delivering a keynote speech at the Scottish Labour conference in Edinburgh, the Opposition leader also ruled out a deal with whoever succeeds […]

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Ingenious and life-enhancing: a tale of two new London footbridges thumbnail

Ingenious and life-enhancing: a tale of two new London footbridges

February 19, 2023

All the world loves a bridge that moves. Usually, the point of a bridge is that it is fixed – when so much trouble has been taken to overcome gravity and tame nature, instability is the last thing that you want – so there is surprise and delight when it confounds its own rigidity. I […]

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Amy Winehouse’s dad disappointed not to be played by George Clooney in new biopic: ‘Eddie f****** Marsan!’ thumbnail

Amy Winehouse’s dad disappointed not to be played by George Clooney in new biopic: ‘Eddie f****** Marsan!’

February 19, 2023

Mitch Winehouse has joked he’d rather be portrayed by Hollywood heartthrob George Clooney over Eddie Marsan, who he dubs ‘not very good looking’. The 72-year-old father to the late Amy Winehouse is backing the new biopic, Back To Black, which will document the jazz legend’s rise to fame and heady London days before her death […]

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Second man arrested over Trei Daley fatal stabbing

February 19, 2023

A second man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a 26-year-old was attacked near a nightclub in east London. Trei Daley, from Bromley, was stabbed outside the Colour Factory nightclub, in Hackney Wick, on Saturday, February 11. He arrived at an east London hospital with stab wounds at 4.30am with another 24-year-old man, who […]

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Boris Johnson warns against ditching Northern Ireland Protocol

February 19, 2023

The former premier warned that dropping the Northern Ireland Protocol Bill – which would empower the UK to unilaterally scrap parts of the treaty – would be a “great mistake”. Mr Johnson’s first intervention on Brexit since departing No 10 comes as his successor-but-one has engaged in frantic diplomacy to secure a UK-EU agreement on […]

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