Image copyright EPA Image caption Figures show footfall in London’s West End is currently 63% lower than at this time last year Businesses in London’s West End need “urgent support” from the government to survive the pandemic, Sadiq Khan says. In a letter to the prime minister, the Labour mayor said the area was the […]
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Image copyright BTP Image caption Alex Lanning (bottom left) confronted Tashan Daniel (wearing an Arsenal top) at Hillingdon station A man has been convicted of murdering an aspiring Olympian who was stabbed to death on a London Underground platform. Tashan Daniel, 20, was stabbed in the heart at Hillingdon Tube station in west London as […]
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Image copyright Met Police Image caption One of the women found in a flat in east London was mother-of-three Mihrican Mustafa A man accused of murdering two women and storing their bodies in a freezer is a registered sex offender who once “married” a 14-year-old girl, a court has heard. Zahid Younis, 35, is accused […]
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Image copyright Other Image caption Jean Charles de Menezes was shot seven times in the head by officers in Stockwell station The mother of a man shot dead 15 years ago in a Tube station by police who mistook him for a terror suspect has said her pain “is not over yet”. Jean Charles de […]
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Image copyright PA Image caption Ms Begum was 15 and living in Bethnal Green, London, when she left the UK in 2015 Shamima Begum should be allowed to return to the UK to fight the decision to remove her British citizenship, the Court of Appeal has ruled. Ms Begum, now 20, was one of three […]
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Sean Maitland played for Scotland at the past two World Cups Scotland winger Sean Maitland has signed a new two-year contract with Saracens. The 31-year-old has scored 29 tries in 73 appearances since joining from London Irish in 2016. New Zealand-born Maitland scored tries for Sarries in both their Champions Cup and Premiership final wins […]
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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionThe BBC’s Tom Symonds is shown how a customised Android phone with EncroChat installed works A top-secret communications system used by criminals to trade drugs and guns has been “successfully penetrated”, says the National Crime Agency. The NCA worked with forces across Europe on the UK’s “biggest […]
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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionFootage on social media appears to show police officers being chased Twenty-two police officers have been injured and their vehicles damaged during clashes at an illegal street party in south-west London. Two officers and two people at the party were taken to hospital following the “unlicensed music […]
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Image copyright Getty Images Dame Vera Lynn, the Forces’ Sweetheart whose songs helped raise morale in World War Two, has died aged 103. The singer was best known for performing hits such as We’ll Meet Again to troops on the front line in countries including India and Egypt. Her family said they were “deeply saddened […]
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Alli said he made an “extremely poorly judged joke” Tottenham midfielder Dele Alli has been suspended for one match by the Football Association over a post on social media about coronavirus. Alli, 24, put a video on Snapchat in February in which he joked about the outbreak and appeared to mock an Asian man. The […]
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