When it comes to South London, certain areas are well-known for being ‘cool’. There’s Brixton, Camberwell, Peckham. But if there’s one location that’s usually overlooked when compared with its SW neighbours, it’s Streatham. Yes, critics will say the high street (which locals know is actually the High Road) is too loud, and that there’s no […]
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Some protesters held a demonstration outside Parliament where they called for the “removal of Islam” while Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, re-posted a video of himself saying that, were he to become prime minister, he would “stop Islam”, adding: “It’s time for many Muslims to leave this country.”
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A total of 26 sex toys were handed in to TfL from London’s Tube, bus, and train network after being lost last year. Of these, only six toys ever made their way back to their owners. Transport for London’s lost property discovered five of the adult sex toys on their own while the majority (21) […]
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Countries that subsidise wind power like the UK are “stupid”, Donald Trump has said, as he announced nearly 700 million dollars (£521 million) of support for the US coal industry. The president argued many successful nations, such as China, use the fossil fuel, while “the real great failures” had adopted the renewable energy source. Mr […]
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Sir Keir Starmer’s Government has rejected an intervention from the Trump administration over Henry Nowak’s murder in which it said so-called two-tier policing is taking place in the UK. Downing Street dismissed the suggestion, echoing Justice Secretary David Lammy, who had earlier said it did not chime with his experience. The Liberal Democrats have called […]
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A British veteran who travelled to Normandy to mark the 82nd commemoration of D-Day said some of his more traumatic memories need “weeding out” and still disturb his sleep. Ken Hay, 100, attended a remembrance service at the General Montgomery monument in Colleville-Montgomery with fellow Second World War veteran Henry Rice, 100, on Friday. The […]
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The bathing ponds at Hampstead Heath in north-west London will remain trans-inclusive after a public consultation overwhelmingly favoured its existing rules. There are gender-segregated ponds for men and women, with trans people able to swim in whichever they feel most appropriate, or use the heath’s mixed-gender pond instead. The City of London Corporation (CLC), which […]
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The family of a girl left brain-damaged at birth have agreed to accept £28m in damages after the NHS trust involved admitted that its mistakes led to the tragedy. Barking, Havering and Redbridge university hospitals NHS trust failed to monitor the baby’s heart rate while her mother was in labour or ask an obstetrician to […]
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What can be done to protect London’s late-night culture and help it flourish? That was the big question at SXSW London today when some of the biggest voices in the city’s scene came together for the Last Night a DJ Saved My Night panel. Fabric co-founder Cameron Leslie, Black Lives in Music CEO Charisse Beaumont […]
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Nigel Farage has been spotted leaving a private members’ club in London after he was accused of trying to ‘create division’ following Henry Nowak’s murder. The Reform UK leader called for ‘pure, cold rage’ in response to the 18-year-old’s death, which he blamed on a culture of ‘anti-white prejudice’ in a video on Tuesday, which […]
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