Day: March 5, 2024
Colin Firth’s wet shirt from Pride and Prejudice sells for £20,000
March 5, 2024The shirt worn by Colin Firth when he strides across fields dripping wet after a swim in a lake during the TV adaptation of the classic novel Pride and Prejudice has been sold at auction for £20,000 in London. Cosprop, a costume house founded in 1965 by the Oscar and Bafta-winning designer John Bright, and […]
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Fears of new UK cladding crisis after blaze destroys timber-frame homes
March 5, 2024A London council has warned of a potential new national fire safety crisis after it discovered hundreds of low-rise timber-frame homes had been fitted with plastic cladding that can spread fire. Barnet council has alerted the government and the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, that other homeowners in similar properties across the country could be […]
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Facebook and Instagram down: Thousands of users report problems with Meta’s social media platforms
March 5, 2024The problems appeared to have started at around 3pm today, according to Down Detector, a website that tracks internet outages. Between them, more than 30,000 people have reported problems with Instagram and Facebook in the past hour. All three affected sites are owned by Meta, which also operates WhatsApp – though that appears to be […]
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Ex-boarding school harboured culture of violence and abuse, inquiry finds
March 5, 2024Lady Smith has chaired the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry (Nick Mailer/PA) PA Media A former boarding school which “harboured a culture of violence and emotional abuse” for decades has apologised after an inquiry found children were sexually, physically and emotionally abused there. Some children who boarded at Morrison’s Academy, Crieff, Perthshire, were subjected to “excessive […]
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Higher fines for fare evasion on Tube come into force
March 5, 2024Higher fines of £100 for fare dodgers on the Tube have come into effect. The increase from £80, which took effect from Sunday, comes amid a decision by the Department for Transport to increase the penalty fare also to £100 on national rail routes. The move was approved by Mayor of London Sadiq Khan. TfL […]
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Ex-rough sleeper tells minister not enough being done to help people on streets
March 5, 2024Homelessness minister Felicity Buchan speaking at the Emmanuel Centre in Westminster, London, at an event organised by Homeless Link (Aine Fox/PA) PA Wire A former rough sleeper has told the homelessness minister not enough is being done to help people on the streets who he said were given “false hope” when the Government stepped up […]
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London travel news LIVE: Burst water pipe causes major disruption between Stratford and Tottenham Hale
March 5, 2024What you need to know to get around London this morning: Disruption between Startford and Tottenham Hale continues A burst water main near the tracks has caused disruption to Greater Anglia trains between Stratford and Bishops Stortford. This was first reported at around 9.30am today and it is still the case now. Overground disruption at […]
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Lucky literature lovers can sleep among 20,000 books in St Paul’s library
March 5, 2024Airbnb users could be given a once in a lifetime opportunity to stay in a hidden library in St Paul’s Cathedral – 83 years after it was last slept in. The iconic London cathedral has created a room inside its 300-year-old library where a lucky guest to stay for just £7 in honour of World […]
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This 1960s housing estate is the utopian living we all deserve
March 5, 2024We all admit to sometimes buying into the adage that ‘the grass is always greener’. It’s all too easy to assume the lives and situations – and homes – of our friends, neighbours and colleagues are a cut above our own. For Shaun Betteridge, however, the opposite was true. A housing estate in Twickenham, south-west […]
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Passenger sexually assaulted by man who sat next to her on London bus
March 5, 2024Jen MillsPublished Mar 5, 2024, 12:47pm|Updated Mar 5, 2024, 5:01pm A woman who fell asleep on a bus woke to a man sexually assaulting her, police said. She say down at the back of the bus in London and nodded off on January 27 this year. A stranger, who had got on at the same […]
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