Tag: London
Dominoes player wins case over ‘racist’ noise ban in London square
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A dominoes player has won a court case over a ban against he and his friends playing the game “loudly” that he said was racially motivated. Ernest Theophile took Westminster city council to court after it granted an i...
Birds, beavers and microparks: experts plan to rewild London
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London will be “rewilded” with new nature reserves, pocket parks and a mass community movement to bring nature back to the capital, the Guardian can reveal. A group of rewilding experts commissioned by the mayor, Sadi...
Scaffolding collapse in west London seriously injures two men
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Two men have been left with potentially life-threatening injuries after scaffolding attached to a town hall collapsed in west London. Dozens of police, fire and ambulance vehicles attended Hammersmith town hall in Kin...
Tottenham v Arsenal: the key match-ups in the north London derby
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Before Tottenham’s chaotic deadline day in January, they gave goalkeeper and captain Hugo Lloris a new deal. Lloris has been a consistent performer since he joined the club a decade ago from Lyon and, while now 35, Sp...
Europe’s first psychedelic drug trial firm to open in London
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Europe’s first commercial facility for psychedelic drug trials is to open in London, with the goal of making the UK a global leader in psychedelics research and innovation. The British startup Clerkenwell Health aims ...
Six-year-old twins found after going missing in south London
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Six-year-old twins who were reported missing in south London have been found. The Metropolitan police said Emmanuel and Emmanuella were last seen playing in the front garden of their home in Cowley Road, Lambeth, on S...
Six-year-old twins go missing from their garden in south London
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Six-year-old twins have been reported missing in south London. The Metropolitan police said Emmanuel and Emmanuella were last seen playing in the front garden of their home in Cowley Road, Lambeth at 6pm on Saturday. ...
West Indian dominoes players dismayed by noise ban in London square
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A Thursday afternoon at Maida Hill market square is filled with pensioners happily chatting and playing cards while enjoying the sunshine. However, over the past year the square has been at the centre of an ongoing ro...
How Boris Johnson’s Conservatives lost their grip on London
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In marginal Croydon, a group of weary Conservative activists were trying to drum up voters in the London council elections in the dying hours of polling day when they bumped into a group of Labour campaigners, who sai...
Qantas announces plans for non-stop flights from Sydney to New York and London
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Qantas has unveiled details of the ultra-long-haul aircraft it plans to run on non-stop flights from Sydney and Melbourne to London and New York by the end of 2025, as the airline’s battered financial situation shows ...
African photography gets a showcase at pioneering London gallery
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Of the hundreds of galleries in London, none has been given over exclusively to the growing and vibrant market for African photography. Until now, that is. Doyle Wham is the creation of two young Londoners who are esc...
London galling: could Partygate sink the Tories’ Wandsworth flagship?
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Boris Johnson used to be king of the capital. As a politician who presented himself as metropolitan and socially liberal, he gifted the Conservatives their first control of London-wide government for 30 years by winni...
Made in London: Solidarity Britannia – video
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Lynda Ouazar set up a food bank for undocumented people in the first lockdown, supporting those who lost their jobs and houses overnight, and who were unable to seek official help. She joined the Guardian for this col...
London: 120 firefighters fight ‘intense fire’ in Deptford block of flats
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A major fire has broken out at a block of flats in south-east London, with more than 100 firefighters tackling the blaze. It was first reported at 1pm but 20 fire engines and 120 crew remained at the scene in Creek Ro...
BBC set to pull the plug on Dateline London after 25 years of news debate show
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One of the BBC’s longest-running and most internationally respected news programmes, Dateline London, is to be ditched at the end of the summer. The move, confirmed to the show’s producer this weekend, is the first in...
Police injured after van rammed squad car in south London
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A police officer was taken to hospital after a truck reversed into their patrol car following an attempt to get the driver to pull over. Metropolitan police officers had stopped the Ford Transit as it was seen drivin...