A strike by London Underground drivers will severely disrupt transport in the capital over the next four days. The RMT union and Transport for London (TfL) said that the strike would go ahead from midday on Tuesday 21 April, with no last-minute talks planned on Monday. How disruptive will the strike be? Just under half […]
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A London judge ruled Monday against the father of Amy Winehouse who sued his daughter’s friends for profiting off the late singer’s memorabilia. Mitch Winehouse, who was administrator of this daughter’s estate, sued Naomi Parry and Catriona Gourlay in the High Court over the $1.2 million (890,000 pounds) they earned at auction in the U.S. […]
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John Dunne Published April 20, 2026 1:47pm Updated April 20, 2026 1:52pm This is the moment a masked suspect ‘hurls a firebomb’ through the window of a north west London synagogue. Counter-terror police are investigating the attack on Kenton United Synagogue in Shaftesbury Avenue, Harrow, at around midnight on Sunday. A bottle containing an accelerant was […]
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Here is a voyage along the Thames estuary from film-maker Pablo Behrens: an eccentric experimental documentary, a bit indulgent and not altogether thought through, but mostly engaging. Like Iain Sinclair, JG Ballard and Rachel Lichtenstein, Behrens is drawn to the unloved stretch of water between London and the sea, where the wildness of mudflats and […]
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Michael Beckwith Published April 20, 2026 12:00pm Updated April 20, 2026 12:00pm A TikTok video by a fan has done more to promote the new London store than Nintendo itself has. Last October, Nintendo opened one of its Nintendo Stores in London, which was the first of its kind in Europe, after being exclusively an […]
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Luke Alsford Published April 20, 2026 8:26am Updated April 20, 2026 10:04am Two teenagers have been arrested over an arson attack on a synagogue, police have said. A 17-year-old boy and a 19-year-old man were taken into custody overnight in connection with the arson attack at Kenton United Synagogue in Harrow over the weekend. Officers […]
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Barney Davis Published April 19, 2026 2:41pm Updated April 19, 2026 7:20pm
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London’s Underground network will grind to a halt next week with a Tube strike affecting all lines across four days. The RMT union announced yesterday it had not reached an agreement with Transport for London in a dispute over Tube drivers’ hours. Strikes will go ahead next week from Tuesday until Friday across the capital, […]
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Luke Alsford Published April 19, 2026 9:56am Updated April 19, 2026 10:12am A synagogue in north London has become the latest target of an arson attack against the Jewish community. Police and fire crews responded to an attempted ‘firebombing’ at Kenton United Synagogue in Harrow overnight. There was minor smoke damage to an internal room, […]
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The inevitable fall of the assisted dying Bill this week is “upsetting” and lets down terminally ill people, campaigners said while insisting the fight for a change in the law is not over. But opponents have warned against what they described as an “absurd” attempt to bring the Bill back later this year, branding it “bad […]
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