Day: July 22, 2025
Girl, 9, shot in head ‘by motorbike hitman during botched gangland murder’
July 22, 2025A nine-year-old girl was shot in the head when a gunman on a motorbike opened fire during a ‘planned assassination’ between warring Turkish gangs, the Old Bailey has heard. The youngster was seriously injured when a stray bullet from the drive-by shooting missed its target as she was eating dinner with her family at the […]
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London’s Oyster card prices to nearly double – full list of affected cards
July 22, 2025Londoners face rising travel costs in the capital as a popular Oyster card is going up by £15. People wanting to get free travel with an Oyster concession card will have to dish out more money after a price hike. The cost of applying for the Oyster 60 and six different Zip photocards will increase […]
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Why was an innocent electrician shot and killed by police ‘in cold blood’?
July 22, 2025To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video On July 22, 20 years ago today, electrician Jean Charles de Menezes left his home in Tulse Hill to fix a broken alarm. Stopping to pick up a copy of Metro, the Brazilian national descended the stairs […]
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‘First-of-its-kind’ Eurostar-style train to directly connect UK with Berlin and two more cities
July 22, 2025Whether it’s buzzing nightlife, an inclusive LGBTQ scene, historical sites or just a really good Currywurst, Berlin arguably has everything you’d need from a city break. And now, if you’re looking for a greener way to travel to the German capital, plans for a direct train from London have been announced – and it could […]
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Fans slam ‘atrocious’ immersive Elvis Presley show with tickets up to £300
July 22, 2025A newly opened high-tech Elvis Presley show in London that initially promised an AI hologram of the star on stage has been blasted by punters as ‘a shambles from start to finish’. Elvis Evolution was announced in January 2024 with a life-sized, digital Elvis as its golden ticket item which would perform ‘iconic moments in […]
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BMXs, boomboxes and black eyes: growing up on Peckham housing estates in the 80s – in pictures
July 22, 2025Copner Way, North Peckham Estate, 1985 Newell says: ‘My grandmother and mother moved to the Redbridge Gardens estate, Peckham, in the early 60s when it was first built, and I was born in Peckham in 1965, where we lived until 1968. I returned permanently to London with my mother in 1976. Our first Peckham home […]
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‘I have to forgive’: 20 years after Jean Charles de Menezes was shot by police in Stockwell his cousin looks back
July 22, 2025Patricia da Silva Armani was living with her cousin Jean Charles de Menezes in a flat in south London two decades ago when he was shot seven times in the head by firearms officers at Stockwell station. Her younger cousin was a chatterbox and a dreamer, she says, “always with plans”. The pair had grown […]
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