Day: February 16, 2024
Six-time Olympic champion Sir Chris Hoy reveals cancer diagnosis
February 16, 2024Sign up to our free sport newsletter for all the latest news on everything from cycling to boxing Sign up to our free sport email for all the latest news Six-time Olympic champion Sir Chris Hoy has announced he has been diagnosed with cancer. The 47-year-old former track star said he is currently undergoing treatment, […]
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Russian diplomats ‘summoned’ following Alexei Navalny’s death
February 16, 2024A protester holds a picture of Alexei Navalny at a protest opposite the Russian Embassy in London (Jonathan Brady/PA) PA Wire Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron said Russian President Vladimir Putin must be held accountable, as he warned that there should be “consequences” for the Moscow leader, of whom Mr Navalny was one of the most […]
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Protesters gather outside Russian Embassy following Alexei Navalny’s death
February 16, 2024PA Wire Angry protesters have gathered outside the Russian Embassy in central London, calling for the Kremlin to be held accountable for the death of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Images of the 47-year-old were left alongside a number of floral tributes. Those gathered chanted “Putin is a killer”, and held up signs with slogans […]
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London travel news LIVE: Trespass incident near Waterloo causes disruption for hours
February 16, 2024Disruption clears at Moorgate Disruption has now cleared at Moorgate, with all train lines now reopen. Planned Overground strikes next week called off Planned strikes next week by London Overground workers have been called off after a pay offer was improved, the RMT union says. Members of the RMT employed by Arriva Rail London on […]
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Navalny was likely killed to crush dissent before Russian election, says expert
February 16, 2024Russia’s federal prison service has said Alexei Navalny is dead (Moscow City Court via AP, File) AP It is “likely” Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was killed ahead of the country’s election next month to “crush” dissent, a Russia expert has said. The UK has joined other western countries in condemning the Kremlin after Russia’s […]
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Donald Trump fined $350m and banned from running a business in New York
February 16, 2024Former President Donald Trump at the New York Supreme Court in November AP Donald Trump must pay $354.9 million in penalties for fraudulently overstating his net worth to dupe lenders, a New York judge ruled on Friday. Justice Arthur Engoron also banned the former US president from serving as an officer or director of any New York corporation for […]
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Last Swim review – a London school leaver’s complicated A-level results day
February 16, 2024Sasha Nathwani is a UK-based director of award-winning short films, of Iranian and Indian heritage, stepping up here to his feature debut. It opens the Generation strandin Berlin and is a sweet-natured, heartfelt and earnestly acted film; a little precious maybe, but saved from emo-sentimentalism by irreverent humour and a wittily self-aware final image of […]
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People are already giving nicknames to the new London Overground lines
February 16, 2024Jasper KingPublished Feb 16, 2024, 4:49pm|Updated Feb 16, 2024, 4:51pm London Overground’s different lines were given new names this week and people are already coming up with their own catchy nicknames for them. The six names are Lioness, Mildmay, Windrush, Weaver, Suffragette and Liberty and will be rolled out in the autumn. Each line will be […]
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Woman jailed for taking child to Kenya for genital mutilation in landmark case
February 16, 2024Sam CorbishleyPublished Feb 16, 2024, 4:27pm|Updated Feb 16, 2024, 5:27pm A woman convicted of handing over a three-year-old British girl for female genital mutilation (FGM) during a trip to Kenya in a legal first has been jailed for seven years. Amina Noor, 40, from Harrow, north-west London, was found guilty last year of assisting a […]
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London fashion week celebrates its 40th birthday – but will recession cramp its style?
February 16, 2024Hours after Caroline Rush, the chief executive of the British Fashion Council, opened the London stock market in Paternoster Square to kick off the 40th anniversary celebrations of London fashion week, Downing Street confirmed that the UK has entered a recession. A collapse of retail is not the ideal mood music to get this dressiest […]
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