Day: May 17, 2024
London’s newest erection has raised a few eyebrows
May 17, 2024Lucy SkouldingPublished May 17, 2024, 1:54pm|Updated May 17, 2024, 2:25pm A new statue that was designed to look like Cleopatra’s needle has ended up looking a bit phallic. People walking in Betts Park near Penge, in south east London may have spotted a new monument that’s left some unable to look away. Locals living near […]
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This rooftop bar is so cool, we can’t believe more people don’t know about it
May 17, 2024The sun has finally started shining! And if like every other Londoner you’re on the hunt for the nearest available rooftop for an Aperol Spritz, we’ve got you covered. Welcome to the Slice The Slice is your weekly guide to what’s happening in London, so if you’re looking for restaurant reviews, drinks deals or just […]
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Someone is literally renting out their garden shed – for £1,300 per month
May 17, 2024Eleanor NoycePublished May 17, 2024, 11:49am|Updated May 17, 2024, 11:50am From ludicrous adverts depicting tiny rooms for hundreds of pounds to nightmarish landlords that won’t fix the central heating in the dead of winter, the frankly ridiculous stories about renting in London never stop circulating. But now, the capital has reached new lows as someone […]
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Boy, 12, told he will be expelled from school unless he cuts off hair
May 17, 2024Brooke DaviesPublished May 17, 2024, 11:21am|Updated May 17, 2024, 11:22am A 12-year-old boy may be kicked out of school because his long hair does not fit with their uniform policy. Farouk James said despite the fact his hair is braided neatly for school, he has been threatened with expulsion if he does not chop off […]
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Land Securities sees end in sight for property slump as losses nearly halve
May 17, 2024For 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 Commercial property giant Land Securities has seen its annual profits almost halve and said there were signs that the correction in the market was coming to an end. […]
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Grief, guilt and white working-class ‘fury’: Death of England heads to London’s West End
May 17, 2024The co-creator of the Death of England series of plays has said the decade-long project has endured because, alongside difficult conversations about race and immigration, the plays have a sense of pride in being English. Three of the plays are to be performed together at Soho Place in London this summer, taking a project that […]
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Doctor in blood scandal says patients infected with HIV and Hepatitis C is ‘worst thing you can imagine’
May 17, 2024Edward Tuddenham is one of the few remaining haemophilia specialists to have treated patients at the beginning of the infected blood scandal in the early 1970s. To have infected patients with HIV and Hepatitis C in the course of treating them “is the worst thing you can imagine,” he said. Prof Tuddenham went on to […]
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Body Shop administrator to launch auction of stricken chain
May 17, 2024The Body Shop’s administrators are to launch an auction of the chain after concluding that an alternative restructuring of one of Britain’s best-known high street retailers was not viable. Sky News has learnt that FRP Advisory, which has been overseeing the collapsed business since January, is to begin formally sounding out potential buyers in the […]
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