Day: May 2, 2025

‘My moment of glory’: Nicolas Cage lookalikes assemble in London

On a sunny, bustling late afternoon outside a cinema in Soho, central London, more than 100 people have gathered, a number of whom sort of, if you squint, look a little bit like the actor Nicolas Cage. There is a Raising Arizona Cage, moustachioed and with a Hawaiian shirt. There are several Con Air Cages […]

Major London Tube station finally becomes step-free after reviving historic feature

A major central London Tube station has become step-free thanks to a century-old feature – but a campaign group says it’s ‘four years’ too late. Knightsbridge, a Piccadilly line stop used by nearly 13million people every year, has become the 93rd Tube station to become step-free this week. A new entrance and three new lifts mean […]

The Guardian view on Tate Modern at 25: a monumental success | Editorial

The novelist Ian McEwan tells a good story about the opening party for Tate Modern on 11 May 2000, when he was introduced to the then prime minister, Tony Blair, by the Tate director, Nicholas Serota. Mr Blair shook the author’s hand and told him that he was a big fan of his work and had some of […]

Gal Gadot ‘evacuated from London movie set’ after pro-Palestine campaigners halt filming

A little-known app means I live in London for £99 a year

Waking up in a plush bed in a spacious bedroom on the second floor of a London house, I felt the most relaxed I had in ages. There were windows overlooking a verdant garden, I could hear birds singing and a fluffy labradoodle soon rushed up the stairs to bid me good morning. Yes, this […]

Prince Harry loses legal battle with Home Office over UK security downgrade

The Duke of Sussex has lost a legal battle over his security arrangements while in the UK despite claiming in the court fight that his “life is at stake”. Harry argued he had been “singled out” and given “inferior” treatment in the way the Executive Committee for the Protection of Royalty and Public Figures (Ravec) […]

One of London’s ‘Trees of the Year’ could be felled to build council housing

Brooke Davies Published May 2, 2025 3:30pm Updated May 2, 2025 3:32pm One of London’s ‘Trees of the Year’ could be cut down to make way for council housing. The Pagoda Tree, which is around 70-years-old, sits in the centre of Mitcham’s Canons heritage site in Merton, south London. It was named the borough’s Tree […]

Swinney: Scotland must be alive to the threat of Farage after English elections

Scotland must be “alive” to the “threat” of Nigel Farage, the First Minister has said, after Reform UK’s strong performance in England’s local elections. John Swinney accused Labour and the Conservatives of making a “fundamental mistake” by “cosying up” to the right-wing party. Reform UK won its first mayor during the local elections south of […]

Local elections 2025 full results: Reform gain new MP and control of first councils as Tories and Labour falter

Votes for about 1,650 council seats across 24 local authorities, six mayoral contents and one parliamentary by-election were being counted on Friday. The Tories were defending the most number of councillor seats at around 950 of the total up for re-election, or 55%. At the last set of elections in these areas in 2021 the […]

Conservatives and Labour lose ground to Reform in local elections

The Conservatives have lost council seats to Reform UK and the Liberal Democrats, as Kemi Badenoch warned her predictions of a tough set of elections are “proving” true. Reform have taken Lincolnshire and Staffordshire councils out of Conservative control, with Nigel Farage’s party sweeping hundreds of council seats across England, while Sir Ed Davey’s party […]