Day: March 15, 2025
Labour-run Enfield council left 100 families homeless after they refused to relocate
March 15, 2025A Labour-run London council left more than 100 families homeless without support last year after they refused to be relocated outside the borough, the Observer can reveal. Freedom of information data from about 80% of English councils shows that they ended their legal duties to 615 households who refused offers of housing outside the local […]
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RTS commits to making special award after Gaza coverage controversy
March 15, 2025The Royal Television Society (RTS) has committed to the return of its special journalism award following pausing the prize over “recent controversy around some Gaza coverage”. Earlier this week, current affairs veteran Jonathan Dimbleby, Channel 4 News presenter Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Sky News journalist Alex Crawford and BBC journalists Fergal Keane and Orla Guerin were among […]
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Protesters gathered outside Tesla dealership call for boycott
March 15, 2025Protesters gathered outside a Tesla dealership in London have called for people to boycott the Elon Musk owned electric car maker. Organisers are encouraging Tesla owners to sell their cars and for people to dump stock. The electric car giant has already seen shares plunge since the start of the year as the firm comes […]
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EBacc limiting pupils’ access to vocational and arts subjects, review chief says
March 15, 2025“Responses to the call for evidence, and advocates for some subjects, suggests that the EBacc may constrain choices, impacting students’ engagement and achievement, and limiting access to, and the time available for, vocational and arts subjects.”
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Man fighting for life after stabbing outside bar in central London
March 15, 2025Noora Mykkanen Published March 15, 2025 11:44am Updated March 15, 2025 1:19pm A Saturday night descended into chaos on a London party street when a man was critically injured in a stabbing. The man, in his 20s, is fighting for his life after he was stabbed on Old Street, east London, in the early hours […]
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Russian captain of North Sea crash ship remanded in custody
March 15, 2025The Russian captain of the container ship that crashed into a US oil tanker in the North Sea has appeared in court, where he was remanded in custody. The Solong’s master, Vladimir Motin, 59, of Primorsky, St Petersburg, in Russia, appeared at Hull Magistrates’ Court on Saturday morning charged with gross negligence manslaughter. Motin stood […]
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‘This is bold, and we’ve got to succeed’: inside Mission: Everest and their record-breaking ascent attempt
March 15, 2025Climbing Everest is one of the hardest challenges on earth, but now a team of ex-Special Forces soldiers are upping the hardness stakes in more ways than one, by attempting to conquer it in a record-breaking seven days. And that’s from London to the top of the peak, and back. The team consists of Expedition […]
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Low mileage, several careful renters … will car-sharing ever really get going?
March 15, 2025Spotify did it for music. Netflix did it for films. For people in big cities, the app economy promised to do the same for cars: making a life without ownership of a couple of tonnes of metal possible. Businesses such as Zipcar, Enterprise Car Club and Share Now offer app-based car rental by the hour, […]
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What I Rent: We pay £3,700 a month for our two-bedroom London flat
March 15, 2025Welcome back to What I Rent – Metro’s tenant diary series exploring what renting is like in the UK and further afield. This week, we’re in Aldgate, East London, meeting Pedro Henrique, 28, and Fiona Ann, 27, at their two-bedroom rented flat. Having met in 2020 when they were both living in Spain, the pair fell head over heels and […]
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