Day: June 17, 2025
Paying Evita audience upset as Don’t Cry delivered offstage to West End passersby for free
June 17, 2025Jamie Lloyd’s production of Evita has been referred to as the hottest ticket in the West End right now, with audiences paying as much as £250 for a seat. But theatregoers keen to watch one of the biggest showstoppers in musical history – Eva Perón’s performance of Don’t Cry for Me Argentina – were left […]
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Mum suing Cineworld after horror film trailers played before Lilo & Stitch
June 17, 2025Katie Boyden Published June 17, 2025 3:40pm Updated June 17, 2025 4:36pm A mum has vowed to take legal action against Cineworld after they played trailers that were not age appropriate. Jenny Ellice went with husband Robert and their sons Max, four, and Bertie, five, to see U-rated Lilo & Stitch in Enfield, north London. […]
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Why Evita fans think Rachel Zegler’s balcony performance is actually great for theatre
June 17, 2025To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Rachel Zegler’s West End debut in Evita has been a controversial one as theatre-goers realised they won’t see the biggest song of the show live. Instead, the Snow White actress, 24, sings Don’t Cry For Me Argentina […]
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Oxford Street pedestrianisation is going ahead after ‘North Korean’ levels of support, says Sadiq Khan
June 17, 2025The changes will involve more of the road being closed to traffic than first thought – the eastern section between Oxford Circus and Great Portland Street, in front of the new Ikea store. But the Oxford Circus junction itself will not be pedestrianised, The Standard has learned, as buses will continue to run north-south on […]
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Air India flight from Ahmedabad to London cancelled after ‘precautionary checks’ following crash on same route that killed 270
June 17, 2025An Air India jet from Ahmedabad to London has been cancelled – less than a week after a plane on the same Gatwick-bound route crashed killing at least 270. An airline spokesman said it was “due to the unavailability of the aircraft, resulting from airspace restrictions and additional precautionary checks, leading to longer than usual […]
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BBC blames magistrates for Single Justice Procedure scandal and opposes key reform
June 17, 2025The BBC prosecutes every week in the Single Justice Procedure for TV Licence fee evasion (James Manning/PA) PA Wire The BBC has blamed magistrates for harsh convictions against vulnerable people in Britain’s fast-track courts, and is opposing a key reform that could end the scandal. TV Licensing prosecutions have been in the eye of a […]
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Murder probe as woman found stabbed to death in Stoke Newington home after huge ‘gas explosion’
June 17, 2025Part of the basement and ground floor were destroyed in the blaze. A woman aged 46 was found by emergency services inside the property with stab wounds. Despite the efforts of paramedics, she was declared dead at the scene. A 44-year-old man was arrested at the address on suspicion of murder, the Metropolitan Police said. […]
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Man admits murdering and beheading girlfriend
June 17, 2025A man has admitted murdering and decapitating his 21-year-old girlfriend before texting her mother pretending to be her and searching for internet pornography. Ewan Methven, now 27, murdered Phoenix Spencer-Horn, 21, in the home they shared on November 16 last year, after the couple ordered a takeaway to their flat in Glen Lee, East Kilbride […]
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London-bound Air India flight ‘cancelled last minute over technical issues’
June 17, 2025An Air India plane from Ahmedabad to London has been cancelled a week after flight AI171 crashed, killing as many as 270 people. The flight was cancelled today due to ‘technical issues’, but no update has been given since. CNN News18 reported that the plane had arrived from Delhi and was due to depart from Ahmedabad’s […]
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Man arrested after woman in her 30s sexually assaulted in London cinema
June 17, 2025John Dunne Published June 17, 2025 8:00am Updated June 17, 2025 3:47pm A 67-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted rape after a woman was attacked at a cinema in north London. A woman, in her 30s, reported that she had been attacked at a cinema in Finchley at around 3.45pm on June 11. […]
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