Author: london
What’s with the used floss picks appearing all over Britain’s streets?
March 4, 2026Recently, I came across a post on Reddit which asked: ‘Why am I all of a sudden spotting discarded floss picks everywhere?’ A random observation to some, but for me, this question spoke right to my soul. Over the past few months no matter where life has taken me – in London, at home with […]
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‘Our iconic market has been here years – now landlords are trying to shut it down’
March 4, 2026Worn-out traders at a ‘lifeline’ market for east London say they are being ‘punished back into poverty’ as developers hand them yet another eviction notice. Their landlords Larochette – an off-shore company – bought the building in 2016, and as all London sales go, applied to Hackney council to turn the building into luxury flats […]
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New York’s congestion toll into Manhattan upheld by a federal judge over Trump’s objections
March 3, 2026A federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump‘s administration’s efforts to halt New York’s first-in-the-nation congestion fee meant to reduce traffic and pump revenue into the region’s aging transit system. U.S. District Judge Lewis Liman on Tuesday ruled that the U.S. Department of Transportation lacked the authority to unilaterally rescind approval of the $9 toll, […]
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Crowd gathers for vigil to mark five years since Sarah Everard’s death
March 3, 2026Sarah Hooper Published March 3, 2026 7:02pm Updated March 3, 2026 7:02pm About 100 people have gathered for a vigil in south London to mark five years since the death of Sarah Everard. The crowd arrived at Clapham Common bandstand on Tuesday evening to remember Sarah and all the women and girls whose lives have been […]
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Londoners can’t get enough of this tea room ‘frozen in time’ for 160 years
March 3, 2026If you’re looking to have an incredibly wholesome day out in London, hop on the Tube to Kew and head to Kew Gardens. Now that the weather is starting to brighten up, the flowers will be starting to bloom, and you’ll be able to enjoy a real visual feast. And when it comes time for […]
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Iranian strikes on Amazon data centers highlights industry’s vulnerability to physical disasters
March 3, 2026Damage to three Amazon Web Services facilities in the Middle East from Iranian drone strikes highlights the rapid growth of data centers in the region, as well as the industry’s vulnerability to conflict. The company’s cloud computing division, Amazon Web Services, said late Monday that two data centers in the United Arab Emirates were “directly […]
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Iran war leaves forecast for low UK inflation not worth the paper it was written on
March 3, 2026The rise in gas prices over the past 48 hours is without precedent. Even in the chaotic opening weeks of the Ukraine war in 2022, the gas price never doubled. But that is precisely what has happened to wholesale methane prices in the UK. And since gas prices are arguably the single most important price […]
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UK will deploy HMS Dragon in Cyprus, Sir Keir Starmer confirms
March 3, 2026Britain will deploy HMS Dragon and helicopters with anti-drone capabilities in Cyprus, Sir Keir Starmer has confirmed. The prime minister said on social media he had spoken with the president of Cyprus about deploying the Type 45 destroyer, which is the only type of equipment the Royal Navy has to shoot down ballistic missiles. It […]
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Boy, 15, and man in his 20s arrested over viral violent ‘school wars’ trend
March 3, 2026Brooke Davies Published March 3, 2026 4:11pm Updated March 4, 2026 9:23am A man in his 20s has been arrested in connection with the viral ‘school wars’ trend which encouraged pupils to ‘be violent’ towards each other. Two suspects, a man in his 20s and a 15-year-old boy, have been arrested on suspicion of encouraging […]
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Drill rapper finally arrested after escaping jail and ‘smuggling himself to France on lorry’
March 3, 2026Barney Davis Published March 3, 2026 4:09pm Updated March 4, 2026 11:39am To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video A drill rapper and armed robber on the run from prison for weeks has finally been arrested. Daniel Boakye, 21, who also goes by the […]
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