Day: May 6, 2025
‘Large’ fire breaks out in block of flats opposite O2 arena
May 6, 2025Fire broke out in a block of flats in east London this evening, with dozens of firefighters rushing to the scene. Flames were visible from a balcony of New Providence Wharf, close to Canary Wharf in east London, while black smoke poured into the sky. One local resident, who runs a Facebook group for the […]
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Starmer in ‘two tier taxes’ storm as Indian workers exempt from NI under ‘landmark’ trade deal
May 6, 2025Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of imposing a “two-tier tax” system that will inflict pain on British taxpayers after it emerged that Indian workers and businesses will be exempt from paying National Insurance. As part of the Prime Minister’s landmark trade deal with Narendra Modi, Indian workers migrating to Britain and UK citizens moving […]
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Holocaust survivor thanks those who took ‘high risks’ to help Jews during war
May 6, 2025A Holocaust survivor has paid tribute to the “high risks” people took to help Jews during the Second World War. Jacques Weisser, 83, was born in Antwerp during the war and subsequently hidden when his parents were taken to Auschwitz concentration camp. He was one of 22 Holocaust survivors and Second World War refugees who […]
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Notorious inmate Charles Bronson’s latest parole hearing to be held in private
May 6, 2025Notorious prisoner Charles Bronson’s latest parole hearing will be held in private, a judicial Parole Board member has decided. The decision comes after one of the UK’s longest-serving prisoners – who changed his surname to Salvador in 2014 – took part in one of the country’s first public parole hearings in 2023. On Tuesday, a […]
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UK strongly opposes expansion of Israeli operations in Gaza, minister says
May 6, 2025The UK Government “strongly” opposes Israel’s plans to expand its military operations in Gaza, a Foreign Office minister has said, as he warned it would lead to the deaths of more innocent civilians. Hamish Falconer also told the Commons the hostages will be put at “greater risk”, as he urged the warring parties to “urgently” […]
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Murder accused says wife hit him and ‘could lose her temper easily’
May 6, 2025A man accused of murdering his wife told Irish police he had been injured by her multiple times throughout their marriage, a court has heard. The jury in the trial of Richard Satchwell, who is accused of murdering Tina Satchwell at the home they shared in Co Cork between March 19 and 20 2017, was […]
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Pierre Audi obituary
May 6, 2025Based successively in London, the Netherlands and France, Pierre Audi, who has died suddenly aged 67, was over a period of 45 years the indefatigable procreator of a sizeable body of innovative work, largely centred around the operatic stage. As founder of the Almeida theatre in Islington, London, artistic director of the Dutch National Opera […]
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Londoners have typically British response when phone thief is stopped by witness
May 6, 2025Brooke Davies Published May 6, 2025 3:17pm Updated May 6, 2025 3:40pm To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video A crowd of people chanted ‘w*nker’ at an alleged would-be phone thief after he was stopped in the street in central London. The balaclava clad […]
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Mega new supermarket is launching in UK that’s like ‘Tesco and Amazon Prime combined’
May 6, 2025From Tesco to M&S, Sainsbury’s and Aldi, we’re not exactly short of places to do the weekly shop here in the UK. But another major retailer is keen to enter the market and is currently trialling an online grocery service in London. Jingdong or JD.com, which is being called Joybuy in the UK, is China’s […]
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‘Tranquillising good taste’: can the National Gallery’s airy new entrance exorcise its demons?
May 6, 2025Few parts of any city have seen so many style wars waged over their future as the north-west corner of Trafalgar Square. Nelson may be safely ensconced on his column, but another Battle of Trafalgar has been rumbling for decades beneath his feet, seeing architectural grenades hurled to and fro at the western end of […]
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