Day: June 19, 2025
Met Police deploying dedicated patrols to protect women and girls at concerts this summer
June 19, 2025More officers specially trained to spot predatory behaviour will be deployed at concerts across London this summer to try and keep women and girls safer, the Metropolitan Police said. The capital is gearing up to host an unprecedented number of events, with more than 50 concerts taking place at major venues including the London and […]
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Enjoy the weekend’s heat with London’s best boat restaurants
June 19, 2025Welcome back to The Slice! We’re getting our first proper heatwave of the year, and it was truly worth the wait. With that being said, we know that you’ll want to know the best ways to soak up the sun. Who knows how much longer it’ll be around? So we’ve got a round up of […]
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‘Swan Whisperer’ banned from Hyde Park after residents objected to him kissing the birds
June 19, 2025A homeless man who ‘stroked, cuddled and kissed’ swans in Hyde Park has been banned from the public space after a getting into a fight with disapproving onlookers. Anders Fernstedt, 57, was known locally as ‘The Swan Whisperer’, and was filmed touching and kissing the creatures in the central London park. Resident Virginia Grey took […]
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London’s best lidos, ponds and outdoor pools to beat the heatwave
June 19, 2025A searing heatwave is sweeping the UK, and all any of us Londoners can think of is where to go to cool off. It’s so hot, in fact, that the previous record of 40°C, in July 2022, could be under threat. A health agency has issued an amber heat warning, meaning there’s potential for it […]
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Man ‘carrying a gun’ at Elm Park Underground station arrested during rush hour
June 19, 2025Katie Boyden Published June 19, 2025 3:08pm Updated June 19, 2025 3:51pm A man has been arrested after reportedly being spotted carrying a gun on the London Underground. The 61-year-old was arrested at Elm Park station in east London just after 7am. British Transport Police were alerted and the station was closed during the operation. […]
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Man who filmed himself raping woman has ‘unduly lenient’ sentence increased
June 19, 2025A man who filmed himself raping a vulnerable woman after a night out before claiming she had “forced” him to commit the offence has had his prison sentence increased after the Court of Appeal ruled it was “unduly lenient”. Gagandeep Gulati, 20, sent some of the nine videos he took of the attack in Leicester […]
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Israel-Iran war: Starmer urges Trump not to attack Tehran’s nuclear sites with bunker-busting bombs
June 19, 2025Sir Keir Starmer on Thursday urged Donald Trump not to attack Iran’s nuclear sites as he warned that the war with Israel could spiral beyond the Middle East. Amid a growing expectation of US air strikes on Iran and a widening rift between Washington and London, the Prime Minister repeated his call for “de-escalation”. But […]
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Chaos at London station after man allegedly spotted with gun
June 19, 2025Police raced to a London Tube station after receiving reports of a man allegedly armed with a gun during the morning rush hour. The shocking incident unfolded shortly after 7am on Thursday at Elm Park station, on the busy District Line, prompting authorities to swiftly shut down the station. A 61-year-old man was arrested on […]
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Lillie Clack: Distraught friend tells of terror before 100mph car crash that killed ‘popular princess’
June 19, 2025A woman has spoken of her terror before the overloaded car she was a passenger in crashed at 100mph on Christmas Day, killing her friend. Drink driver Charlie Hilton, 25, was chased by police before his Mercedes hit a tree, flipped over and burst into flames early on December 25, 2021. Lillie Clack, 21, was […]
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Maintenance fund to give £9bn a year to fix schools, hospitals and prisons
June 19, 2025At least £9 billion a year will go to tackling the “soaring maintenance backlog” and fixing crumbling schools, hospitals and prisons over the next decade under the Government’s infrastructure strategy, a minister has confirmed. Chief Secretary to the Treasury Darren Jones said £6 billion a year would go to repairing hospitals, £3 billion to schools […]
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