Day: August 14, 2025

Curry house that Peter Crouch threatened to name his child after closes down

Katie Boyden Published August 14, 2025 9:19pm Updated August 14, 2025 9:20pm A beloved Indian restaurant which once delivered to Kensington Palace has closed down after 42 years in business. Samrat Indian Cuisine in Ealing, west London is a firm favourite of former England football star Peter Crouch, who has been visiting since he was […]

Three-course menu and prosecco for £35 at Sea Containers restaurant: 10 unmissable Time Out deals

Looking for 10 things to do in London? Luckily, there’s lots to do in this city for cheap in 2025! At least… There is now. Metro has teamed up with Time Out to bring you the best deals across the capital. Every Friday, 10 new deals will drop, available in the Metro newspaper, on Metro, and on our […]

Gang bundled pregnant woman into van and threatened to cut her fingers off

Katie Boyden Published August 14, 2025 5:03pm Updated August 14, 2025 5:58pm To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Three men have been jailed after kidnapping a pregnant woman and threatening to cut off her fingers. Audi Johnson, Ahmad Ghiasi, and Nicholas Mitchell bundled […]

Welcome to ‘Wet Wipe Island’: my day at London’s grimmest new landmark

Imagine several mounds of congealed grot (consistency akin to the insides of a leisure centre shower drain, or the world’s most disgusting pedal bin) washed up on the southern foreshore of the River Thames in London at low tide. Then, imagine a tourist from New Zealand stopping to take a picture and several videos of […]

Royal Ballet and Opera urged to drop Russian soprano with Putin links

More than 50 Ukrainian writers and artists, a cross-party group of UK MPs, and a former New Zealand prime minister have urged the Royal Ballet and Opera to drop the Russian opera singer Anna Netrebko from its new London season. Netrebko is due to perform in the RBO’s production of Tosca next month. In a […]

London Vietnamese restaurant shut down after ‘dog meat found in freezer’

Brooke Davies Published August 14, 2025 1:19pm Updated August 14, 2025 5:49pm A London restaurant has been shut down after dog meat was allegedly found in the freezer. Pho Na, a Vietnamese restaurant on Old Kent Road, Southwark, closed after inspectors found the suspicious looking meat labelled as ‘goat wrapped in leaves’. But when it […]

Where to sip on mini cocktails in London

Welcome back to The Slice! We’re well and truly in heatwave territory this week, and we’re not complaining. It’s going to be a scorching 30 degrees on Friday in case you were wondering – and we want to bask in it as much as we can! Today, we’re letting you know the best ways you […]

Guy’s Hospital in London evacuated after people inhale chlorine gas in chemical incident

Josh Milton Published August 14, 2025 11:01am Updated August 14, 2025 2:51pm To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video A major hospital in central London has been evacuated after a chemical incident this morning. The incident occurred in a non-patient area of Guy’s Hospital, […]

Fire breaks out at London tanning salon after ‘sunbed catches alight’

‘London diners are so rude they cost my restaurant £1,000 a week’

Despite the English stereotype that Brits have impeccable manners, London restaurant owners have said their customers are extremely rude – and it’s costing them £1,000 a week. Last minute cancellations, constant complaints and pure anger after seeing other diners being served their meal slightly earlier are all fueling the theory customers simply ‘love to feel […]