Day: July 12, 2025
‘I watched my classmate tear down my Pride poster – so I made an LGBTQ+ club’
July 12, 2025Last September, Aoife watched as one of her fellow pupils tore down LGBTQ Pride poster she had designed. As an 11-year-old in south east London, Aoife has, thankfully, never had any encounters with homophobia. Yet, as a Year Seven student at the Addey and Stanhope School in Lewisham, Aoife had heard her classmates use ‘gay’ […]
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Huge fire rips through warehouse with smoke seen for miles across south London
July 12, 2025Luke Alsford Published July 12, 2025 9:11am Updated July 12, 2025 9:29am To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video A huge fire has ripped through an industrial estate in London. Twenty-five fire engines and around 150 firefighters spent hours fighting the blaze on Maypole […]
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What I Own: We bought our £500,000 Woolwich two-bed before 30 — we saved for two years
July 12, 2025Welcome back to What I Own – Metro’s property series where we speak to homeowners about getting on the ladder. When Sashwat and Rupali Bannick first moved to the UK from India in 2022, they knew they wanted to strive towards homeownership. Initially moving to Canary Wharf, the pair spent two-and-a-half years diligently saving for their deposit, and in 2024, they […]
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I love living in London — but it’s absolutely vile in the summer
July 12, 2025For most of the year, I love living in London. The hustle and bustle of the city is electric, there’s something new to do or see every weekend and as a food writer, I’m never far from delicious treats. But there are a few weeks out of the 52 when I’d rather be just about […]
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Iconic London nightclub set for one final party this weekend before closing
July 12, 2025An iconic London club that was a ‘coming of age’ venue for locals is closing for good this month. PRYZM Kingston, which has hosted Stormzy, Rod Stewart and Billie Eilish, is shutting up shop after one last hurrah on July 12. Londoners and music industry insiders have told Metro of their despair that the 18-year-old hotspot […]
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