Day: August 5, 2025
Staff ‘literally sleep on their shifts’, wrote girl who died while receiving psychiatric care
August 5, 2025A 14-year-old girl who died while she was a patient on a psychiatric unit wrote a letter before she died saying “staff literally sleep on their shifts” and how she thought the hospital should be “shut down”. Ruth Szymankiewicz died after a self-harm incident at Huntercombe Hospital in Berkshire. Her note also said there was […]
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Boxer who punched Princess Anne’s kidnapper wishes he hit ‘mollycoddled killer’ harder
August 5, 2025Jasper King Published August 5, 2025 5:14pm Updated August 5, 2025 5:14pm A boxer whose punches stopped Princess Anne’s kidnapper said his only regret was not hitting him harder after the ‘mollycoddled’ killer was set free. Ian Ball, 77, tried to kidnap Queen Elizabeth’s only daughter for a £3million Royal ransom in March 1974 when […]
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Thousands of Santander bikes not working across London after software upgrade
August 5, 2025Noora Mykkanen Published August 5, 2025 12:44pm Updated August 5, 2025 2:03pm Londoners have been left unable to hire Santander Cycles today after an issue with the software update. Thousands of commuters were left high and dry when trying to ride a Santander bike in London this morning. Frustrated commuters said the docks and fobs […]
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Murder investigation after 45-year-old man shot dead in north London
August 5, 2025A murder investigation is under way after the fatal shooting of a 45-year-old man in north London. Police and paramedics were called to reports of gunshots fired just after midnight on Tuesday in the Stoke Newington area of Hackney. Officers arrived and found a man, with gunshot injuries. A Lime bike lay strewn on the […]
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Man slashed in the arm with samurai sword in Canary Wharf
August 5, 2025Katie Boyden Published August 5, 2025 9:13am Updated August 5, 2025 6:08pm A former rugby player says he feels like he’s used ‘two or three’ of his nine lives after he was attacked by a man allegedly with a samurai sword. Alex Ogbechie was meeting friends at Boisdale, a whisky and cigar bar in Canary […]
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Pushing airport expansion while rail travel languishes – so much for Labour’s green agenda | Polly Toynbee
August 5, 2025August is peak flying time, and airports are on many minds. The government has signalled its support for colossal expansions, whose extra flights would bust its carbon pledges. The excuse is that supertechnology will magic away the extra CO2 pumped into the atmosphere, though it must know that clean, green flying is still futurology. Here’s […]
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What do Banksy’s art pieces across London mean? We take a look
August 5, 2025Last year, Banksy fans were left gripped after a series of animal-themed murals mysteriously appeared across London over a number of days. The graffiti artworks – depicting the likes of a goat precariously balancing on a pillar with rocks falling below it, two elephants are poking their heads out of blocked windows and three monkeys […]
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