Day: September 22, 2025
Council could axe toilets at Notting Hill Carnival in bid to cut costs
September 22, 2025A west London council is looking to axe funding for toilets at Notting Hill Carnival due to an £82 million black hole caused by a shake-up in government financing. Kensington and Chelsea said the proposal was part of a wider funding review of all non-statutory services. The council already announced plans to reduce council tax […]
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Davey insists he is not scared of Farage or legal threats from Elon Musk
September 22, 2025Sir Ed Davey has said he is not worried that Elon Musk could sue him after he branded the tech billionaire a “criminal”. The Liberal Democrat leader said “no” when pressed by Sky News as to whether he would like to retract calling the Tesla owner a criminal. Sir Ed continued to insist there was […]
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London science teacher ‘found child abuse images on Twitter’ and shared them with other paedophiles
September 22, 2025Hayes School in Bromley LDR A former teacher at a Bromley school has been struck off the teaching register after being convicted of making and distributing indecent images of children. Science teacher Kieran Atter admitted to accessing indecent images of children—a number of them in the most serious category—using Twitter, saving images on his phone […]
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Two people jailed for death of ‘kind, loving and vibrant’ south London man discovered inside car boot
September 22, 2025Two people from south London have been jailed for the manslaughter of a “kind, loving, and vibrant” man whose body was discovered hidden in a car. Lewis Benjamin, 30, and Jamal Ali-Richards, 29, were sentenced this month following an eight-week trial over the disappearance of Justin Henry two years ago. Mr Henry, 34, was reported […]
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Murder arrest after death in case of missing 17-year-old girl
September 22, 2025Police are appealing for information after the arrest of a 55-year-old man (Dave Thompson/PA) PA Wire A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder following the death of teenager believed to be a missing 17-year-old girl. A girl had died at the scene and GMP said the time and cause of her death are […]
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Two men who murdered e-bike riders after mistaking them for burglars jailed for life
September 22, 2025Two men who murdered e-biker riders they mistook for burglars have been jailed for life. Landscape gardener Alex Rose, 30, deliberately drove his black pick-up truck into William Birchard, 21, and Darren George, 22, while going the wrong way along a motorway slip road in Sunbury-on-Thames, Surrey. It followed a 60mph chase, with passenger Charles […]
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‘Burglary tourists’ travelled from Chile to steal £80,000 of goods from Surrey homes
September 22, 2025A Chilean burglary gang who posed as tourists to steal more than £80,000 worth of goods from homes in Surrey and London have been jailed for a total of 17 years. Between 3 November and 11 December last year, the group carried out at least 11 break-ins in affluent areas. They scaled first and second […]
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Ex-England rugby star was almost three times over the limit during fatal crash
September 22, 2025A former England rugby star was almost three times over the drink drive limit when he drowned while trying to cross a swollen ford in his 4×4, an inquest heard. Tom Voyce, 43, died trying to cross Northumberland‘s River Aln in his Toyota Hilux in December during Storm Darragh. The body of Voyce, who won […]
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Gold glistens as FTSE 100 outdoes European peers
September 22, 2025The FTSE 100 made steady progress on Monday, supported by gains in gold miners as the price of the yellow metal hit a new all-time high. Broker Citigroup expects the gold bull market to continue near-term, setting a three month price target of 3,800 US dollars an ounce. “Just about everything is going right for […]
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Is this the biggest hint yet London is about to get robotaxis?
September 22, 2025Jen Mills Published September 22, 2025 1:40pm Updated September 22, 2025 4:31pm Self-driving taxis are nothing new in California, where they have been picking up customers since last summer. But are they about to head out of Silicon Valley and into the traffic chaos of Hyde Park Corner and the M25? A spate of job […]
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