Day: April 10, 2026
‘Our London market is being closed down for a Whole Foods – we’re a victim of gentrification’
April 10, 2026Traders claim they are victims of ‘assassination by gentrification’ after a popular west London indoor market looks set to make way for a Whole Foods store. Dozens of small businesses that have traded at Queensway Market for decades have been told they must pull down their shutters for the final time next month. The market, […]
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Albert Bridge reopens to pedestrians after earlier closure due to ‘slight movement’
April 10, 2026A Grade-II listed bridge nicknamed ‘The Trembling Lady’ has reopened to pedestrians and cyclists after it was shut due to movement in the structure. Albert Bridge, which was closed to cars earlier this year due to a part of the bridge cracking, closed to pedestrians and bikes as well on Wednesday afternoon after sensors picked […]
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Sadiq Khan urges social media crackdown over London crime ‘disinformation’
April 10, 2026Sadiq Khan has warned London is at the centre of a “dark blizzard of disinformation” online as he urged the government to crack down on the spread of false information across social media. While overall London-related posting activity increased by around seven per cent between March 2024 and March 2026, “London in decline” narratives increased […]
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Man carried out ‘prolonged’ sexual assault on girl, 13, on a train into London
April 10, 2026Noora Mykkanen Published April 10, 2026 10:45am Updated April 10, 2026 10:45am A man who targeted a 13-year-old girl in an ‘abhorrent’ attack on a train by trapping her to her seat has been found guilty. Abdulmanon Aliev, 50, sexually assaulted the girl during a train journey out of Southend to London on June 16 […]
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I went to London’s last remaining Tube station pub — it was almost perfect
April 10, 2026After a long week at work, there’s nothing quite like a trip to the pub to enjoy a drink. And in London, you’re not short of places to go for a pint, as there are more than 3,000 boozers across the city. But of all these, there’s only one that’s actually located inside a London […]
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Why the UK banned Kanye West – podcast
April 10, 2026When Kanye West was announced as the headliner for Wireless festival in London this summer, the backlash was immediate. “He’d been on a campaign of four or five years of antisemitic trolling,” Lanre Bakare, the Guardian’s arts and culture correspondent, tells Nosheen Iqbal. “Embracing neo-Nazi imagery, pushing out far-right conspiracy theories about Jewish people.” Bakare […]
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