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Woman and child die after getting into ‘difficulty’ in water in west London
April 25, 2026A woman and her young child have died after getting into “difficulty” in the water at a park in west London, police said. Officers were called to Elthorne Park in Ealing just before 4.30pm on Saturday, where a woman and her son were recovered from the water, the Metropolitan police said. Both died at the […]
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Death of the gatekeeper: Devil Wears Prada 2 depicts a revolution in the fashion world
April 24, 2026The National Gallery was the grand setting for the party that followed The Devil Wears Prada 2’s London premiere this week. Donatella Versace held court in a roped-off area beneath Paul Delaroche’s The Execution of Lady Jane Grey. Meryl Streep, reprising her role as Miranda Priestly – Anna Wintour’s fictional alter ego – wore a […]
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‘Dumb mistake’: Mayfair club Annabel’s gave managers bonus from staff service charge
April 24, 2026The restaurant tycoon Richard Caring has admitted his private members club Annabel’s made a “dumb mistake” after staff revolted over the use of more than £70,000 of their pre-Christmas service charge takings to pay managers’ bonuses. Just one table of diners at the exclusive Mayfair venue, which has hosted celebrities, financiers and aristocrats ranging from […]
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Met police in talks to buy Palantir AI tech for use in criminal investigations
April 22, 2026The Metropolitan police has held talks with Palantir that could lead to the London force buying the US spy-tech company’s AI technology to automate intelligence analysis for criminal investigations, the Guardian has learned. Palantir, whose software is used by Donald Trump’s ICE immigration enforcement programme and the Israeli military, demonstrated its systems to senior officers […]
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Tube strikes: how disruptive will action by London Underground drivers be?
April 20, 2026A 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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London’s Last Wilderness review – mudflats meets Mad Max towers on eccentric estuary voyage
April 20, 2026Here 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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Museums have a duty to inspire the creatives of the future. At V&A East, I’ve made that my mission | Gus Casely-Hayford
April 18, 2026One of the most affecting of the many artist commissions that have found a home in the circulation spaces of the new V&A East museum is an exquisite indigo, cobalt blue and cyan stained-glass window, Towards a Civic Museum. Part of our series of New Work commissions, it was created by the Cuban artist Tania […]
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‘Whatever life throws at us, we don’t walk alone’: how a London synagogue attack birthed an act of solidarity
April 18, 2026“How good and how wonderful it is when friends sit together,” reads a quote from the Psalms painted high on the wall inside Finchley Reform Synagogue (FRS). For the congregation gathering in a cheerful hubbub before its Shabbat service on Friday evening, that felt like an especially apt sentiment. Three days after the synagogue was […]
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Struggling theatres must ‘programme their way out’, says Young Vic director
April 16, 2026Theatres facing financial difficulty can only prosper by “programming their way out of it”, according to the Young Vic artistic director, Nadia Fall, who has announces her new slate of shows, including an anti-Trump musical version of Thelma & Louise. Fall, who took the helm at the Young Vic in 2025 and oversaw staff cuts […]
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Police watchdog investigates handling of inquiry into Wimbledon crash that killed two schoolgirls
April 14, 2026The police watchdog is investigating complaints made against 11 officers over their handling of an inquiry into a car crash that killed two schoolgirls. The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) has confirmed that the officers, including a serving commander and a detective inspector, are being investigated over alleged gross misconduct. Nuria Sajjad and Selena […]
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