78 minutes ago Meera Sodha’s vegan recipe for leek, pistachio and jalapeño galette | The new vegan

A French-style tart stuffed with a zippy pistachio paste and covered in soft leeksWhenever I think of galettes, I think of my friend Henrietta Inman, who left London to set up Wakelyns bakery in Suffolk. Ever since she showed me how to make them, galettes have been my go-to when I need to whip up something impressive and beautiful, but also actually quite easy, and with a reasonably large margin for flexibility when it comes to ingredients and error, especially if, like me, you don’t consider yourself to be a particularly good pastry chef. Today’s recipe is a homage to some of my favourite greens: leeks, chives, pistachios and jalapeño chillies, to help usher in the New Year with a fresh dose of optimism. Continue reading...

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3 hours ago Kieran Culkin on pranks, parenting and why his famous family doesn’t need therapy: ‘Us siblings, we’re already cooked’

He’s been on screen since he was seven – but only prepares for a scene 10 minutes before. Yet somehow the mischievous Succession star is now tipped for an Oscar. How did the chaotic, charismatic actor do it?Kieran Culkin tries the upright chair first, the one opposite me, high-backed and leather. But no, that’s no good. He can see his reflection in the wall mirror, he’ll be catching himself all interview, thinking how tired he looks with his hooded eyes and beard, how jet lagged. Sleep is always tricky, but he’s been up with the kids – five and three – who weren’t supposed to join him for this publicity tour but there was a last-minute crisis, the short version of which is that the whole family is over from New York (with Culkin, 42, there’s always a long and short version).So, he flumps on the banquette, where he’ll be facing guests drinking afternoon cocktails in the low-lit, high-ceilinged bar here at the Corinthia hotel in London. He tests the firmness of the upholstery. Pa...

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4 hours ago London's cheapest pubs revealed: Map shows where punters can still get a pint for less than £2 in the capital

Finding a cheap pint in London is becoming an almost impossible task. However, for anyone looking to enjoy a bev or two without breaking the bank, there are bargain boozers out there.

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3 hours ago The battle of Cable Street is entwined in my family’s history – and its message of hope still resonates | Tracy

On that day in 1936, members of my Jewish family stood up to the Blackshirts. Their fight against racism inspired our adaptation of The Merchant of VeniceIn the weeks leading up to the battle of Cable Street, Oswald Mosley, inspired by his friend Hitler, sent his Blackshirt militia into the East End of London to whip up hatred against Jewish people. Jewish buildings were daubed, synagogues smashed and posters calling for patriotism and national pride in the face of the “untrustworthy international Jewish Entity” were nailed on walls and doorways.Then, on Sunday 4 October 1936, the fourth birthday of Mosley’s fascist party, he sent more than 3,000 uniformed Blackshirts in four marching columns through London’s East End and its predominantly Jewish community, promising a “Greater Britain” and blaming all society’s ills on these immigrant Jews. He fully expected to be supported by the working-class population of the area and assumed it would be delighted by his rousing speeches of hate...

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7 hours ago How to dress ‘smart casual’ for men? This independent London label offers a solution

Introducing Batch Ldn — the start-up brand offering a signature suit to solve ‘smart casual’ dressing dilemmas

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3 hours ago More than 200 flights delayed at London airports as thick fog sparks travel chaos

More than 200 flights delayed at London airports as thick fog sparks travel chaos  Evening Standard

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2 hours ago Chrissy Teigen wears rival London team’s shirt at Arsenal v Ipswich Town

Chrissy Teigen wore a Chelsea shirt to watch Arsenal v Ipswich Town on Friday, 27 December, with John Legend and their family.

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3 hours ago LIVE updates as fog causes flight delays and cancellations at London airports

LIVE updates as fog causes flight delays and cancellations at London airports  East London and West Essex Guardian Series

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21 hours ago Wowcher's £99 mystery holidays are back for 2025 with luxury getaways in Bali, Barbados and the Maldives up for grabs

Wowcher's lucky dip could land you an exciting European mini break or a long-haul trip somewhere exotic.

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3 hours ago Airport delays live: Gatwick Airport warns of further disruption and London’s two busiest rail stations closed

Fog could limit visibility to just 100 metres with the worst forecast to descend on South East and central England

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27 hours ago South London Press photographer Keith Gillard approaching 3,500 match milestone

South London Press photographer Keith Gillard approaching 3,500 match milestone  South London News

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3 hours ago More than 400 flights delayed at London airports as thick fog sparks travel chaos

More than 400 flights have been delayed at Heathrow and Gatwick

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2 hours ago Arsenal XI vs Brentford: Confirmed team news, predicted lineup, injury latest for Premier League

The Gunners face a tough London derby to kick off 2025

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5 hours ago Examined: The Aircraft Families Operating The Most Flights At London Heathrow Airport This December

Examined: The Aircraft Families Operating The Most Flights At London Heathrow Airport This December  Simple Flying

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17 hours ago London Drug Dealer Sentenced to Prison After This Stupid Mistake Connected Him Back to the Crime

London Drug Dealer Sentenced to Prison After This Stupid Mistake Connected Him Back to the Crime  The Root

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32 hours ago Riverview High School, Venice High School Bands to Perform in London New Year's Day Parade

Riverview High School, Venice High School Bands to Perform in London New Year's Day Parade  SRQ Magazine

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3 hours ago Fog expected to cause further flight delays during busy travel weekend

Passengers at Gatwick have been warned to expect possible delays on Saturday because of poor visibility and to contact their airline for information.

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2 hours ago New Year's Eve: the best dinner parties at London restaurants this year

There might be no better way to ring in 2025 than to book one of these glamorous feasts

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6 hours ago London Gatwick, Heathrow and Manchester airports face disruption and delays due to fog

London Gatwick, Heathrow and Manchester airports face disruption and delays due to fog  The Express Tribune

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18 hours ago 'I forgot I let the PDC use my song for the World Champs – I can't believe it's a cult hit'

Italian band Planet Funk had no idea their song 'Chase the Sun' had become the sound of darts until they heard it blaring out inside the lobby of a London hotel

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20 hours ago Travel chaos at London airports with over 400 flights delayed and 34 cancelled as fog grips the capital

Hundreds of flights have been delayed at major London airports amid poor weather conditions

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2 hours ago London New Year's Eve clubs: The best club nights to book for this New Year's Eve

The New Year’s Eve (and New Year’s Day!) parties you really shouldn’t miss. Say goodbye to 2024 in style

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7 hours ago House of the Dragon actor: 'leaving London for Brighton has been really good for my mental health.'

House of the Dragon actor Sam Wilson found his life and career began to flourish when he left the capital

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20 hours ago The Great Fire of London, Hitler's rise and 9/11: Which Nostradamus predictions came true?

The historic seer has developed a large following for his eerie predictions – but which have actually come true?

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3 hours ago London Driver Sent Flowers, Bracelet To Qatari Princess. Then This Happened

London Driver Sent Flowers, Bracelet To Qatari Princess. Then This Happened  NDTV

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10 hours ago Hotel review: A faultless location with welcome Irish design touches – why I was Wilde about my city break in London

Hotel review: A faultless location with welcome Irish design touches – why I was Wilde about my city break in London  Irish Independent

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20 hours ago ‘Gross failures’ in London hospital’s care may have led to disabled woman’s death

‘Gross failures’ in London hospital’s care may have led to disabled woman’s death  The Guardian

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4 hours ago Twinkle Khanna talks about shifting to London even if hubby Akshay Kumar would not have been fine: ‘I was very lucky that ’

Twinkle Khanna talks about shifting to London even if hubby Akshay Kumar would not have been fine: ‘I was very lucky that ’  PINKVILLA

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17 hours ago Airport delays LIVE: Passengers facing heavy delays and cancellations due to fog at Manchester and Gatwick

Delays of up to four hours at the country’s busiest airports, including Manchester and London Gatwick, as thick fog disrupts travel

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20 hours ago Man in court charged with attempted murder over incident in London’s West End

Anthony Gilheaney was remanded in custody to appear at the Old Bailey next year.

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5 hours ago On the towering cliffs, my family found a sanctuary. It still pulls me back today | Kat Lister

My grandmother called it The Haven – a shack perched high above the beach. Years later, another special woman rekindled my love of that placeIn our end of year series, writers and public figures remember the place or time when they felt most at homeIn the 18th century, physicians went looking for a nostalgia bone, as though a person’s yearning for a past time or place could be assigned to a chunk of tissue. But for me, writing in the 21st, the stimulus can be found not in the body I’m in, but the memories I carry. And in particular, as I edge further into my 40s, the memories of coastland I visited in the 1980s: a four-mile stretch in south-east Cornwall where my family and I summered each year with my grandmother.As a child, I would zigzag down the narrow cliff path with wild abandon, my mother nervously calling out to me as I sprinted down to the white sand below. This is where the roots of so many of my happy memories can be found. Not simply in the towering cliffs themselves, bu...

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24 hours ago ‘It’s not just a dancefloor’: the precipitous decline of UK nightclubs

A cocktail of Covid-19 and the cost-of-living crisis has left larger ‘chrome and carpet’ venues high and dry as struggling chains look to party bars‘A taste of Ibiza in grotty King’s Cross’: memories of closed UK nightclubsWhen the patrons of Watford’s Pryzm nightclub celebrated New Year’s Eve on 31 December 2023, they were marking the end of an era, or rather, the end of seven eras. Like every beloved local club, the venue had been known by multiple names over the years: Top Rank, Bailey’s, Paradise Lost, Kudos, Destiny and Oceana.Now, it will be reincarnated no more, after failing to reach a deal with its landlord. Continue reading...

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21 hours ago Man, 30, appears in court charged with four attempted murders after four pedestrians were hit by car in Shaftesbury Avenue on Christmas Day

Anthony Gilheaney, 30, has been charged with four counts of attempted murder after four pedestrians were hit by a car in London's West End on Christmas Day, the Metropolitan Police said.

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5 hours ago Is my train running today? Rail passengers face disruption as UK’s two busiest stations closed

The UK’s two busiest railway stations, Liverpool Street and Paddington in London, are closed

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26 hours ago The most unusual property sales of 2024 — from a lighthouse to a nuclear bunker

There were no shortage of wacky properties to hit the market this year, including nuclear bunkers, a studio with a cell and a replica of the HMS Endeavour

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21 hours ago Coroner seeks improvements after care failings ‘possibly contributed’ to death

Chloe Every, 27, had learning difficulties and a muscle-wasting condition, and died in May 2019 at Queen’s Hospital in Romford.

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6 hours ago Former world’s tallest man calls for more compassion for vulnerable in UK

Hussain Bisad, who has had health problems, says government should do more for people with physical or mental illnessWhen Hussain Bisad first settled in north London as an asylum seeker after fleeing from war in Somalia 23 years ago, he did so in the hope of a new and more settled life. Little did he know that shortly after arriving he would be at the centre of the media spotlight, not for his story of escaping conflict but for something altogether different: his height.Bisad had been in the UK for five months when Guinness World Records measured his height as 2.3 metres (7ft 6.5in), making him then the world’s tallest living man. Continue reading...

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31 hours ago As a student in London I yearned for home, until I found paradise: a vast old villa with perfect housemates | Andrew Martin

We cooked ragu and listened to records while lying on chaises longues. Then the M11 link road was built – and everything changedIn our end of year series, writers and public figures remember the place or time when they felt most at homeIn the mid-1980s, I was in my early 20s and was reading for the Bar in London. I was living in a mouldy Balham bedsit and returning regularly to the comfort zone of my native York, when a friend told me a room was going in a shared house in Leytonstone.I wasn’t expecting much of E11. I wasn’t expecting trees, for example, but my walk from the attractive art deco tube station took me along roads better described as avenues. The house itself seemed almost the last one in London, an illusion created by the proximity of Wanstead Flats. It was a rangy, detached 1920s house, white with a red roof, and it had a name, but I’ll just call it the villa.Andrew Martin is an English novelist; his latest book is The Night in Venice Continue reading...

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22 hours ago Drill rapper 'Young Dizz' releases music video goading Keir Starmer after being released from jail early for kidnapping and torturing teenage boy

Isaac Donkoh, a gang member from Newham in East London , was jailed in April 2019 for seizing the schoolboy a year earlier before posting footage of his ordeal on Snapchat .

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6 hours ago ‘I’ve played for every Spurs boss since Mauricio Pochettino – this is what they’re like'

There have been five permanent Tottenham Hotspur managers since 2019, and one footballer managed to play under all five throughout his time in north London

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31 hours ago As a student in London I yearned for home, until I found paradise: a vast old villa with perfect housemates

As a student in London I yearned for home, until I found paradise: a vast old villa with perfect housemates  The Guardian

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22 hours ago Channel Tunnel chaos as Eurostar is stuck for 2.5 hours between UK and France with passengers breaking down in tears as others face massive queues and delays

Travellers heading to Paris on the 6.01am on-time departure from London St Pancras got stuck in the Channel Tunnel about one hour into their journey because of a train fault.

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8 hours ago Pictures of the week: snowfall in Bosnia, Christmas meat auction in London

Pictures of the week: snowfall in Bosnia, Christmas meat auction in London  South China Morning Post

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23 hours ago Shaftesbury Avenue: Man charged with attempted murder after car hit crowd in central London on Christmas Day

Shaftesbury Avenue: Man charged with attempted murder after car hit crowd in central London on Christmas Day  NationalWorld

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11 hours ago Billionaire Putin crony with 'links to King Charles' may never get inside humongous supermansion in exclusive London neighbourhood

Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor (pictured with King Charles) is a citizen of Russia, the UK and Israel, and is currently based in Tel Aviv after living in London.

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23 hours ago Cleaner who filmed colleagues 'weaponised employment laws' in 'scandalous' compensation bids

Martin Kumi is accused of ‘weaponising’ employment laws to try to get quick payouts

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12 hours ago Canadian cabinet ministers meet Trump team amid threat of tariffs and jibes about ‘51st state’

Finance minister Dominic LeBlanc and foreign minister Mélanie Joly made the trip to Mar-a-Lago as the incoming president continues to make ominous noises about relations between their two countries

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24 hours ago Eurostar passengers get stuck in Channel Tunnel for 2.5 hours as Christmas engineering works and 'a precarious tree' bring chaos to rail lines across UK

Travellers heading to Paris on the 6.01am on-time departure from London St Pancras got stuck in the Channel Tunnel about one hour into their journey because of a train fault.

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16 hours ago From Lapland to London and even Phuket: Where to travel for Christmas in 2025

From Lapland to London and even Phuket: Where to travel for Christmas in 2025  New Zealand Herald

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24 hours ago Eurostar chaos: Travel disruption as hundreds left stranded after London

The first train of the day left St Pancras International on time at 6.01am but ground to a halt around 7am

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18 hours ago London Stock Exchange Group: Massive Outperformance, Time For A 'Hold'

London Stock Exchange Group: Massive Outperformance, Time For A 'Hold'  Seeking Alpha

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24 hours ago Man charged with attempted murder after people hit by car in central London | ITV News

Man charged with attempted murder after people hit by car in central London | ITV News  ITV News

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18 hours ago Atlanta Falcons WR Drake London's Game Status Revealed at Washington Commanders

Atlanta Falcons WR Drake London's Game Status Revealed at Washington Commanders  Sports Illustrated

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24 hours ago Police charge Anthony Gilheaney, 30, with four attempted murders after four pedestrians were hit by car in Shaftesbury Avenue on Christmas Day

Anthony Gilheaney, 30, has been charged with four counts of attempted murder after four pedestrians were hit by a car in London's West End on Christmas Day, the Metropolitan Police said.

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19 hours ago Boman Irani recalls his trip to London with Shyam Benegal: 'We sat together and explored London like two

Boman Irani recalls his trip to London with Shyam Benegal: 'We sat together and explored London like two  TOI Etimes

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24 hours ago Eurostar passengers trapped in Channel Tunnel during Christmas travel chaos

The Eurostar train reportedly suffered a breakdown this morning during a journey from London to Paris with hundreds of passengers having to be evacuated to Calais

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19 hours ago The supersonic jet which could fly from London to New York in two hours

The supersonic jet which could fly from London to New York in two hours  Metro.co.uk

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24 hours ago Man charged with attempted murder after group hit by car in London's West End on Christmas Day

Man charged with attempted murder after group hit by car in London's West End on Christmas Day  Sky News

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20 hours ago From Oasis To Justice: These Are The Best Gigs and Concerts In London To Check Out In 2025

From Oasis To Justice: These Are The Best Gigs and Concerts In London To Check Out In 2025  Secret London

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25 hours ago Eurostar chaos after hundreds of passengers trapped in Channel Tunnel for nearly 3 hours

The Eurostar train reportedly suffered a breakdown this morning during a journey from London to Paris with hundreds needing to be evacuated to Calais, in France

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