Day: October 27, 2025
London restaurant’s 13-year battle against telecomms boxes hampering footfall
October 27, 2025Your browser does not support the audio element. The owners of a southeast London restaurant are campaigning for the large telecomms boxes outside to be removed after stifling their business. Debbie Monfries, 65, said the five cabinets have significantly impacted sales as they restrict the view of her high street eatery, Umana Yana on Croxted […]
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Women runners face a depressing reality now the clocks have changed
October 27, 2025‘I feel like I have to be a lot more wary of my surroundings and keep an eye out for anything that doesn’t look quite right,’ says Jane Rose, 50 from London. ‘Running in the summer months is a lot easier. I don’t always have to have my wits about me.’ Like many of us, […]
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First picture of hip-hop loving student, 20, ‘killed in hit-and-run’
October 27, 2025Barney Davis Published October 27, 2025 7:00am Updated October 27, 2025 8:22am This is the first picture of a man who died after an alleged hit-and-run crash involving Netflix star Ghetts. The family of Nepali student Yubin Tamang, 20, have been calling for justice since his tragic death last Saturday. His father posted a tribute […]
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Crackdown urged by family of mum who died after receiving illegal ‘skinny jab’
October 27, 2025The family of a woman who died after being injected with a black market weight-loss drug has called for a crackdown on unlicensed so-called “skinny jabs”. The daughters of 53-year-old Karen McGonigal, from Salford, Greater Manchester, told ITV News the mum-of-three died in May – days after she was illegally administered a dose of semaglutide. […]
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Health leaders call for Tobacco and Vapes Bill to be passed swiftly
October 27, 2025The latest figures show 11.9% of adults in the UK smoke, the equivalent of about six million people (PA) PA Archive More than 1,200 public health leaders have called for the Tobacco and Vapes Bill to progress quickly through the final parliamentary stages to “protect future generations”. In a cross-party letter, health leaders said the […]
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Father’s 80th birthday visit to palace his ancestor was commissioned to paint
October 27, 2025A son treated his father to an 80th birthday that “helped restore his dignity” as they visited the Palace of Holyroodhouse, where their ancestor was commissioned to create paintings for the building more than 350 years ago. Pierre de Wet, 46, and his father, Pieter Eduard de Wet, travelled to the palace in Edinburgh on […]
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Lammy to face questions after arrest of sex offender mistakenly freed from jail
October 27, 2025David Lammy is expected to face questions in Parliament following the arrest of an asylum seeker sex offender mistakenly released from prison – who is expected to be deported within days. Ethiopian national Hadush Kebatu was jailed for 12 months in September for the sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl and was wrongly freed from […]
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Prosecution chief to be quizzed in Parliament over collapse of China spying case
October 27, 2025Senior officials at the heart of the collapsed China spying case will appear before a parliamentary inquiry on Monday. Director of Public Prosecutions Stephen Parkinson took the decision to drop the case, blaming the evidence from deputy national security adviser (DNSA) Matt Collins for not demonstrating that China posed a threat to national security. Both […]
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