Three people have died in another weekend of violence in London. Officers from the Metropolitan Police were called to a variety of incidents including a triple shooting. In one incident, a woman was stabbed to death on a public road in Primrose Hill, London. Three men were shot outside a barber’s in Forest Gate, East...
A man who fell into the gap between the train and platform while getting off a London Underground service was not seen by two drivers, a report has found. He was crushed by the Tube train he had been on and then hit by another one. He died at the scene. The curve of the...
Three teenage gangsters have been convicted of murdering a Marks and Spencer shop assistant in a “random” stabbing. Anthony “Lizzy” Adekola, 22, was repeatedly stabbed and killed as he walked home from a shift at the Colindale store in North London on the evening of September 5 last year. He fell to the ground as he was...
A woman has died after falling from a block of flats soon after a man had been arrested at the same address in east London. The man was taken into custody after police were called to the block in International Way, Stratford, at 16:30 BST on Tuesday. Just over an hour later a woman fell...
Family and friends have gathered at a vigil in the north-west London park where two sisters were murdered. Bibaa Henry, 46, and Nicole Smallman, 27, were stabbed at Ms Henry’s birthday party last June by a man who thought he may win the lottery if he killed them. People lit candles and laid flowers at...
A controversial Holocaust memorial and education centre is to be built in the heart of Westminster at a cost of more than £100m after the government gave it the go-ahead following a public inquiry. The Board of Deputies of British Jews welcomed the decision, saying there was “something uniquely powerful about locating a memorial to the Holocaust...
Residents at a housing complex in Haringey have been left to clear up following severe water damage to their homes following Monday (July 12) night’s flash flooding across London. The New River Avenue development in Hornsey was completely submerged with many low level flats becoming flooded after water spilled in through basements. Sewage was still visible outside...
Two teenage boys have been killed in separate stabbings in south London amid concerns that last year’s surge in violence after the coronavirus lockdown could be replicated this summer. A 15-year-old died in Woolwich, south-east London, and a 16-year-old in Lambeth, in the south of the capital, on Monday. The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan,...
July is here and the weather is finally improving and let’s face it, we’re all in need of a holiday. With Australia currently closed to most arrivals, Londoners are unlikely to be travelling down under anytime soon. Sunseekers are instead jumping in their cars to escape the city and head to the beach. One spot...
Police arrested three people and three officers were injured during anti-lockdown protests on Saturday that saw thousands descend on central London and hundreds of tennis balls launched at the Houses of Parliament. The Metropolitan police said three people were arrested at the protests – for breach of the peace and assault on police, plus one was already...