Day: January 10, 2025
City Hall Tories demand Sadiq Khan set up grooming gang inquiry
January 10, 2025London mayor Sadiq Khan is facing demands to organise a City Hall-led inquiry into grooming gangs PA In a letter to the mayor from his former election rival Lord Bailey, the London Assembly member claimed there is “a strong possibility” that grooming gangs have operated in the capital, and that a City Hall-led inquiry would […]
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London Tories walk out of City Hall meeting in protest over ‘left-wing wokery’
January 10, 2025Conservatives walked out of a City Hall meeting on Thursday in protest at what they called “left-wing wokery”. Tory members Keith Prince and Thomas Turrell said they objected to the committee’s Green Party chairman, Zack Polanski, refusing to allow a representative from Bromley Council to join the panel, because he is a man. Mr Polanski […]
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Coroner issues warning about depression medication after Thomas Kingston death
January 10, 2025A coroner has issued a warning about the effects of medication used to treat depression after the husband of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent’s daughter took his own life. Thomas Kingston, a 45-year-old financier, died from a head injury and a gun was found near his body on February 25 last year at his parents’ […]
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Ireland clear of weather warnings after cold snap
January 10, 2025Ireland is clear of weather warnings after a cold snap that saw tens of thousands cut off from power and water. The bitterly cold Arctic airmass that has been affecting the country for several days will start to move away, with milder conditions developing later in the weekend. The Republic of Ireland’s weather agency said […]
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Most grooming gang offences carried out by white men, police chiefs say
January 10, 2025The vast majority of grooming gang offences are carried out by white men, the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) has said. New figures from the police database show that, where ethnicity data was available, 85% of “group-based” child abusers were white in the first three quarters of 2024. Offences where grooming gangs are involved are […]
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Mark Rylance joins criticism of police ban on pro-Palestine march in London
January 10, 2025Mark Rylance, the star of the BBC’s Wolf Hall, has joined the singer Charlotte Church and actor Juliet Stevenson to condemn a decision by the police to ban a pro-Palestine protest outside the corporation’s Broadcasting House headquarters. Protesters were planning to gather in Portland Place in central London on Saturday 18 January before marching to […]
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Landlords will soon be banned from asking for more than one month’s rent upfront
January 10, 2025Moving house can often strike fear into the hearts of renters without thousands of pounds in savings to cover hefty rent and deposit fees, but now, landlords will soon be banned from asking for more than one month’s worth upfront. The Renters’ Rights Bill will now make it illegal to ask tenants to pay more […]
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Rap lyrics glorifying murder of boy, 14, ‘shocking and disgusting’ say family
January 10, 2025The family of a 14-year-old boy fatally stabbed on a bus in south east London are horrified at rap lyrics boasting about the murder. Kelyan Bossaka was on the 472 bus in Woolwich Church Road, Woolwich when he was attacked and killed on Tuesday. Police are hunting those responsible and so far no arrests have […]
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Tube station annoys passengers with predicted date escalator will reopen after ‘urgent’ repairs
January 10, 2025Noora Mykkanen Published January 10, 2025 10:02am Updated January 10, 2025 4:17pm To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Passengers are forced to walk down the escalators for months to catch a Tube at a London Underground station. The Blackhorse Road Underground station escalators […]
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Police want to speak to these two men after boy, 7, went missing six months ago
January 10, 2025Detectives have released images of two men they want to trace in connection with an investigation into a missing seven-year-old boy last seen in southwest London six months ago. Karima Mahmoud, 43, was with her son Adam Glanville on June 3 last year in Richmond when two men had a row with another man. It […]
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