Day: August 29, 2025
Four-star west London Hilton is latest migrant hotel – here’s what locals think
August 29, 2025A once thriving Hilton hotel boasting ‘excellent facilities’ in west London has been transformed into a home for asylum seekers, the Metro can reveal. The Hampton by Hilton hotel in west London now houses dozens of asylum seekers, having previously been a favourite of tourists made popular by transport links into central London and its […]
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Fare dodging law student caught at London station says ‘my life is over’
August 29, 2025To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video A fare-dodging student pleaded with ticket inspectors after being caught red-handed in London. Almost £200 million was lost to fare evasion in the capital last year. The sneaky practice is also causing a rift among Londoners as […]
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Why cars will be banned on Oxford Street next month – but only for one day
August 29, 2025Noora Mykkanen Published August 29, 2025 10:31am Updated August 29, 2025 10:53am Oxford Street will become a car-free zone – but for one day only. Plans are underway to ban vehicles on the iconic London shopping street for good as part of a long-awaited £150 million pedestrianisation. The stunt next month will give people a […]
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We found out how to get free NYC cult sandwiches in London this weekend
August 29, 2025Welcome back to The Slice! We know the weather is cooling down in London, but that doesn’t mean all the fun has to end. This week we try Mallow’s Sicilian-inspired Ferragosto menu. Available until the end of September, you can try tasty dishes like the cream-stuffed courgette flowers. Who said vegetables have to be boring? […]
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Bank of England show to remember lost splendours of Sir John Soane building
August 29, 2025A century ago the wrecking ball demolished the halls, courtyards, arches and domes of one of London’s best-loved buildings in what the architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner would decry as “the greatest architectural crime” to befall the capital in the 20th century. The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street (as the Bank of England was nicknamed after […]
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‘Pink Floyd were my landscape. I was a hippy’: Pierce Brosnan revisits his old London haunts
August 29, 2025It is a weekday morning and I am standing beside Pierce Brosnan on a deserted backstreet, watching a woman in a hairnet and white wellies hosing down the entrance to a fishmarket. The former James Bond is in full flow. “You know the scene in MobLand where I’ve got my foot on that guy’s throat […]
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