Day: July 16, 2025
Boy, 15, admits to throwing chair over Stratford Westfield balcony
July 16, 2025Brooke Davies Published July 16, 2025 4:01pm Updated July 16, 2025 4:02pm To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video A 15-year-old boy has admitted to hurling a seat from the top floor of Stratford Westfield. He was arrested after viral footage showed the large […]
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Iconic London attraction will close for years during £60,000,000 upgrade
July 16, 2025To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video The Victorian glasshouse at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew will close to visitors during a major refurbishment in a bid to boost energy efficiency. Built in the 19th century, Kew’s iconic Palm House in west London […]
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‘Elegant’ UK seaside town gets new direct train to London after it was axed five years ago
July 16, 2025Among many, many other crimes, the pandemic put an end to a direct rail link connecting Eastbourne to London. But now, after five years of campaigning, the train is back, with services resuming from December. It’s good news for commuters who live in the East Sussex seaside town, who will be able to get to […]
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All aboard the Nike Northern line? Why corporate takeovers of London’s tube are a terrible idea | Oliver Wainwright
July 16, 2025Few public brands have ever garnered as much unbridled popular affection as the London underground. From the moment that architect Leslie Green unleashed his first station facades of gleaming oxblood-red terracotta tiles on to the streets of Edwardian London, the tube has offered a masterclass in the power of design to represent a truly public […]
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Kew Gardens’ tropical Palm House to shut for five years for net zero makeover
July 16, 2025It has been the tropical jewel in one of the UK’s most famous gardens for more than 175 years, and now the Palm House in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is to get a green makeover. The attraction, which houses Kew’s tropical rainforest, will close for five years to allow engineers and botanists to transform […]
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I stayed in the £1,800-a-night McLaren Suite at the London Hilton — is it worth the hype?
July 16, 2025After filming F1 content for Metro Sport in the McLaren Suite at the Trafalgar St. James hotel, Hilton kindly invited me and my fiancé to stay the night in the £1,800-a-night papaya paradise before it opened to the public. As a motorsport fan, how could I say no to what’s essentially an F1 penthouse, complete […]
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