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Five people arrested after being stabbed at late-night party in London thumbnail

Five people arrested after being stabbed at late-night party in London

May 17, 2025

Brooke Davies Published May 17, 2025 12:40pm Updated May 17, 2025 3:58pm Five people who were taken to hospital after they were stabbed at a music event in south east London have all been arrested. Emergency services were called to Nathan Way, Thamesmead, at 4.19am today after five people were stabbed. Five people were taken […]

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Roman Lavrynovych, 21, appears in court accused of arson fires near Keir Starmer’s home thumbnail

Roman Lavrynovych, 21, appears in court accused of arson fires near Keir Starmer’s home

May 15, 2025

A Ukrainian national has appeared in court over fires at two properties and a car linked to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer. Roman Lavrynovych, 21, appeared at Westminster magistrates court this morning charged with three counts of arson with intent to endanger life. In the early hours of Monday, the emergency services responded to a […]

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Hunt for two teenagers after kittens found tortured and dismembered

May 15, 2025

Sam Corbishley Published May 15, 2025 4:04pm Updated May 15, 2025 4:05pm

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Baby Elsa update: Police narrow down search for parents of abandoned baby to 400 homes in east London thumbnail

Baby Elsa update: Police narrow down search for parents of abandoned baby to 400 homes in east London

May 15, 2025

Brooke Davies Published May 15, 2025 7:28am Updated May 15, 2025 4:10pm Police have narrowed down their search for the mum of three abandoned newborn babies to just 400 houses in London. Baby Elsa was found by a dog walker in a Boots carrier bag in freezing temperatures near a footpath in Newham on January […]

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Teenagers laughed after killing pensioner by torching his home with fireworks thumbnail

Teenagers laughed after killing pensioner by torching his home with fireworks

May 13, 2025

A terrified pensioner died in a fire started by two teenagers who let off a firework inside his home before running away laughing, a court has heard. Robert Price, 76, had been targeted by yobs in Dagenham, east London, for years leading up to the fatal attack last July and was too scared to go […]

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Man arrested after woman ‘body slammed’ in worrying trend spreading across London thumbnail

Man arrested after woman ‘body slammed’ in worrying trend spreading across London

May 13, 2025

Brooke Davies Published May 13, 2025 3:48pm Updated May 13, 2025 3:49pm A man has been arrested after a woman was ‘body slammed’ to the ground in an incel trend spreading across London. Ayla Mellek, 20, said she was left with whiplash and bruising after she was pushed to the ground by a runner last […]

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Man, 87, attacked and left for dead for ‘cornflakes and shepherd’s pie’ thumbnail

Man, 87, attacked and left for dead for ‘cornflakes and shepherd’s pie’

May 13, 2025

Katie Boyden Published May 13, 2025 12:09pm Updated May 13, 2025 12:10pm A man was attacked in the street and left for dead when his bag containing a box of cornflakes and shepherd’s pie was stolen, a court has heard. John Mackey, 89, went to a Co-op in north London last Tuesday (May 6) and […]

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First pictures of car exploding near Keir Starmer’s house in ‘arson attack’ thumbnail

First pictures of car exploding near Keir Starmer’s house in ‘arson attack’

May 13, 2025

John Dunne Published May 13, 2025 10:19am Updated May 13, 2025 3:12pm To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video This is the moment a car ‘exploded’ on a road where Keir Starmer owned a £2m home, triggering an investigation by anti-terror police.  The neighbour […]

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Four charged after mum killed by falling bricks on her way to son’s nursery thumbnail

Four charged after mum killed by falling bricks on her way to son’s nursery

May 12, 2025

Four construction workers have been charged with manslaughter over the death of a mum who was killed by falling bricks in East London. Michaela Boor was en route to her son Kieran’s nursery on March 29, 2018, when more than two tonnes of bricks tumbled five storeys from a building development in Bethnal Green, East […]

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Southport killer ‘to get same treatment in prison as Hannibal Lecter’

May 12, 2025

Southport killer Axel Rudakubana will face extra security measures after he allegedly attacked a prison officer, it has been claimed. The 18-year-old, who murdered three girls last July, is facing severe restrictions that has been compared to the treatment of Hannibal Lecter. It is believed that Rudakubana will now be fed through a hatch and […]

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