Day: January 16, 2026
Divorced artist loses fight to keep £1.5m north London home she claimed her ex-husband signed over in WhatsApp message
January 16, 2026A divorced artist who claimed her ex-husband signed over their £1.5million home to her via WhatsApp after they split has lost a High Court “test case” fight to keep it. London-based painter Hsiao Mei-Lin, 54, married Icelandic financier Audun Mar Gudmundsson, 54, in 2009, but they had a troubled marriage and separated in 2016. During […]
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I visited the London spa with ‘temperature torture’, topless therapists and 10am vodka
January 16, 2026In a new series So, Is It Worth It? our travel experts put products and experiences to the test to see if they’re really worth your money. This week, we’re braving a trip to a traditional Eastern European bathhouse. It’s so hot, I can feel my eyelids sweating. Then again, there’s also a real chance I could […]
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‘People don’t expect that the police will turn up’: Is London really an unsafe city?
January 16, 2026If you don’t live in London or visit regularly, you may have found a couple of news stories in the last week confusing. On the one hand, there was Mayor Sadiq Khan announcing that the city’s homicide rate last year was the lowest since records began – and the number of murders in 2025 was […]
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The pub that changed me: ‘It was close. It served Guinness. And it had (just about) functioning toilets’
January 16, 2026Park Tavern, Finsbury Park Whatever else you might say about the Park Tavern, you can unequivocally say this: it is, without question, the closest pub to the five-a-side pitches where my team DisOrient FC used to play every Tuesday night from 2011 to 2016. Look, I’m not going to pretend that my team’s love of […]
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