Day: November 16, 2025
Full list of UK stations closed over Christmas with 2,500 trains disrupted
November 16, 2025If only you could hitch a ride on Santa’s sleigh to fly above the 2,500 trains disrupted by a 32-day rail shutdown this Christmas. Some journey times are expected to treble due to Network Rail’s £130 million works spree during the festive period. More than 20,000 rail workers have been drafted in to carry out […]
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Minne Fry obituary
November 16, 2025My friend Minne Fry, who has died aged 91, was an abstract artist who emerged in early 1960s London at the New Vision Gallery in Marble Arch, where the director, Denis Bowen, encouraged his exhibitors to be distinct and expressive. He also wanted to counter the then prevalent notion of abstract art as “throwing a […]
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‘I’d run down the road thinking I was God’: a day at the cannabis psychosis clinic
November 16, 2025It’s two years since Isiah found himself on the roof of a south London shopping centre, about to jump. “I was very done,” he says of that night in November 2023. “It felt there was no other route or option. First, I did a walk around everywhere important to me: primary school, secondary, college.” Then […]
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Nurse fined £1,000 for fly-tipping after leaving envelope next to over-flowing bin
November 16, 2025Jen Mills Published November 16, 2025 3:49pm Updated November 17, 2025 8:41am A nurse has been fined £1,000 after leaving a single envelope next to communal bins at her home which were overflowing. Loretta Alvarez, 26, was accused of ‘fly-tipping’ by her local council, who saw her address on the cardboard packaging. The single mother […]
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