Day: October 12, 2025

At least 30 Youth Demand activists arrested as protesters block Tower Bridge

The Met Police told the Standard its officers responded to a group of Youth Demand activists blocking Tower Bridge “causing serious disruption” at around 6.30pm on Saturday. The protest group shared footage of protesters wearing keffiyehs and holding a banner reading “stop arming Israel” and chanting “we demand reparations”. In the background, green smoke from […]

Inheritance tax U-turn rumour prompts farming community to say ‘too little too late’

The budget may still be more than six weeks away, but rumours of U-turns and changes are already in full swing. Over the last few days, there have been multiple reports that those inside Whitehall are considering tweaks to the controversial inheritance tax (IHT) reforms on farms announced this time last year. Plans to introduce […]

Families moved out of Mile End tower block due to sewage water in lift shafts

Sewage water was found in lift shafts at Angela Court in Mile End Google Maps Families in a block of flats in Mile End had to be rehomed for nearly two weeks after a lift shaft filled up with sewage water. Lift shafts at Angela Court in Burdett Road filled with “wastewater” after the sewage […]

Man charged with raping 19-year-old woman on Euston Road

Connolly warns of ‘politics of fear’ as Humphreys says rival ‘insulted allies’

Catherine Connolly has claimed “politics of fear” is being used against her after Heather Humphreys said she has “legitimate questions to answer”. Ms Humphreys accused Ms Connolly of insulting allies of Ireland, but Ms Connolly insisted in response that she is a “committed European”, and claimed Fine Gael is “worried”. The two women are the […]

UK rapper Giggs takes center stage as NFL spices up international games with halftime shows

The NFL has been spicing up its international games with halftime performers, a bit like mini-Super Bowls. British rapper Giggs is the scheduled to perform Sunday at halftime of the game between the New York Jets and Denver Broncos at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. “It’s a huge moment to be a part of the London Games,” […]

‘We’ll do the right thing’: Cabinet minister signals two-child benefit cap will be scrapped

A cabinet minister has given the clearest hint yet that the Government will lift the controversial two-child benefit cap – in what would be a boost to hundreds of thousands of hard-pressed families. Figures released in the summer show almost 1.7 million children are impacted by the two-child limit, in nearly 470,000 households. Ms Phillipson, […]

Niece of Kenyan woman ‘murdered by British soldier’ comes to UK to seek justice

Esther Njoki was only eight years old when her aunt Agnes Wanjiru was killed in 2012. She watched as her mother Rose frantically searched for her sister Agnes for 61 days before the body was found in a hotel septic tank. Agnes’s baby Stacey was only five months old at the time her mother was […]

UK police arrest 2 in stabbing death of former Lostprophets singer in prison

British police have arrested two men on suspicion of murder after the former Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins was stabbed to death at a prison in northern England, where he was serving a 29-year sentence for child sex offenses. Emergency services were called to HMP Wakefield in West Yorkshire on Saturday morning after Watkins, 48, was […]