Author: london
RTS commits to making special award after Gaza coverage controversy
March 15, 2025The Royal Television Society (RTS) has committed to the return of its special journalism award following pausing the prize over “recent controversy around some Gaza coverage”. Earlier this week, current affairs veteran Jonathan Dimbleby, Channel 4 News presenter Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Sky News journalist Alex Crawford and BBC journalists Fergal Keane and Orla Guerin were among […]
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Protesters gathered outside Tesla dealership call for boycott
March 15, 2025Protesters gathered outside a Tesla dealership in London have called for people to boycott the Elon Musk owned electric car maker. Organisers are encouraging Tesla owners to sell their cars and for people to dump stock. The electric car giant has already seen shares plunge since the start of the year as the firm comes […]
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EBacc limiting pupils’ access to vocational and arts subjects, review chief says
March 15, 2025“Responses to the call for evidence, and advocates for some subjects, suggests that the EBacc may constrain choices, impacting students’ engagement and achievement, and limiting access to, and the time available for, vocational and arts subjects.”
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Russian captain of North Sea crash ship remanded in custody
March 15, 2025The Russian captain of the container ship that crashed into a US oil tanker in the North Sea has appeared in court, where he was remanded in custody. The Solong’s master, Vladimir Motin, 59, of Primorsky, St Petersburg, in Russia, appeared at Hull Magistrates’ Court on Saturday morning charged with gross negligence manslaughter. Motin stood […]
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‘This is bold, and we’ve got to succeed’: inside Mission: Everest and their record-breaking ascent attempt
March 15, 2025Climbing Everest is one of the hardest challenges on earth, but now a team of ex-Special Forces soldiers are upping the hardness stakes in more ways than one, by attempting to conquer it in a record-breaking seven days. And that’s from London to the top of the peak, and back. The team consists of Expedition […]
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What I Rent: We pay £3,700 a month for our two-bedroom London flat
March 15, 2025Welcome back to What I Rent – Metro’s tenant diary series exploring what renting is like in the UK and further afield. This week, we’re in Aldgate, East London, meeting Pedro Henrique, 28, and Fiona Ann, 27, at their two-bedroom rented flat. Having met in 2020 when they were both living in Spain, the pair fell head over heels and […]
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Paris’s new mirrored £3,100,000,000 station is an ‘upside down skyscraper’
March 14, 2025Paris’s new glamorous underground station is a serious contender for London stations. When rushing to catch a train or the Tube, there is rarely enough time for the surrounding architecture. But some stations like the new Villejuif-Gustave Roussy Station in Paris are stunning enough to catch the eye of even the busiest commuter. The futuristic […]
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Man who paid twins’ child maintenance for 16 years told he was never legally their dad
March 14, 2025A man who paid child maintenance for 16 years has been told by a judge he was never legally father to the set of twins. The teenage twins were conceived using IVF before the man – known only as Mr J – and the twins’ mother started a relationship. While the mother provided her own […]
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Why do fake Elon Musk ads keep appearing around London and on the Tube?
March 14, 2025“Tesla: The Swasticar”, reads a poster at a bus stop opposite Sadler’s Well Theatre. “Autopilot for your car. Autocrat for your country.” First appearing around Clerkenwell in February, London has since been plastered with guerrilla advertisements comparing Elon Musk to a Nazi over recent weeks. It was a satirical swipe at the multi-billionaire Tesla owner […]
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‘Ted Lasso’ is coming back. Apple TV+ confirms Jason Sudeikis’ hit show will have a fourth season
March 14, 2025Jason Sudeikis‘ mustache is making a comeback. “Ted Lasso,” the dramedy about a fiercely optimistic American soccer coach in London, is set to return for a fourth season, Apple TV announced Friday. The streamer did not say when the new episodes would become available or where they are in the production process. In a statement, […]
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