34 h. ago US female assassin's botched bid to kill Brit businessman outside family home

Besotted hitwoman Aimee Betro, 45, was charged in relation to a failed assassination plot in the city in September 2019. She attempted to murder a Birmingham clothing shop owner as part of an international plot

Events

46 h. ago Over 40 rough sleepers line Oxford Street with makeshift beds after migrant 'shanty town' is cleared

More than 40 rough sleepers have set up camp on Britain's most famous shopping street just weeks after a 'tent city' of homeless people was broken up. 

Events

4 d. ago Boston crisis deepens as 'zombie' addict staggers through city's poshest mall, after Dem mayor gave out taxpayer

A man was seen in widely circulated images lurched over outside the city's poshest mall. 'Wow can't even shop in Mayor Wu's Boston without running into drug addicts.'

Economics

6 d. ago Scottish shopper footfall in decline but one city bucks the trend

“Whilst the figures are an improvement on June’s poor figures there is little to celebrate” – Ewan MacDonald-Russell, SRC

Politics

9 d. ago A Welsh council's crackdown on illegal tobacco being sold in city shops

In the last two years, 25 shops have been closed

Events

9 d. ago 'Sword fight' outside kebab shop in Newport city centre as people left bloodied in chaos

Warring thugs were seen bloodied as they traded blows with huge blades in the shocking city centre battle that left four in hospital and saw eight people arrested

Events

9 d. ago ‘Poetry pulled me out of the abyss’: keeping culture alive in Kharkiv – picture essay

Eastern Ukraine’s biggest city is unsettlingly close to the Russian border and vulnerable to missile strikes, but there is a determination to maintain a cultural life, and a poetry festival is testament to the resilience and creativity of its peopleThe city of Kharkiv, just 18 miles from the Russian border, is a paradoxical mix of tended-to and broken. Public sculptures are wrapped and coddled in sandbags to protect them from missiles. Flowerbeds in parks are punctiliously maintained. The life of the streets is several notches quieter than you would expect from a European country’s second city – and yet, bookshops, coffee shops and restaurants are open and doing a steady business.People browsing the books at Pochaina market Continue reading...

Politics

1 week ago Inside Britain's worst high street: Why shoppers are terrified to visit city centre in Wales

A Welsh city has been dubbed the 'worst high street' after think tank Centre for Cities found it has the highest proportion of empty units, with nearly one in five shops - 19 per cent - left boarded up.

Events

3 w. ago Russia strikes on Kyiv kill one and cause fires across Ukraine’s capital

City officials say a subway station in central Kyiv, commercial property, shops, houses and a kindergarten were all damaged in the attacksRussia launched a barrage of drones and missiles at Ukraine in an overnight attack on Monday, killing at least one person and causing multiple fires in the capital Kyiv, city officials said.Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said rescuers and medics were working on sites across four districts of the capital. A subway station in central Kyiv, commercial property, shops, houses and a kindergarten were damaged, city officials said. Continue reading...

Events

3 w. ago The ghost town centre with more abandoned shops than nearly every city in the UK as locals blame drug addicts, high rents... and EACH OTHER

The West Yorkshire district has more empty shops than nearly every other city in the UK and double those in London and Cambridge, according to a new think tank study.

Events

3 w. ago More than 60 die in fire at newly opened shopping mall in Iraq

Survivor says the blaze, which killed at least 61 people in the eastern city of Kut, started after an air conditioning unit explodedA fire has torn through a newly opened shopping mall in the eastern Iraqi city of Kut, killing at least 61 people, as desperate families searched for missing relatives.Officials said many people suffocated in bathrooms, while one person said his five relatives died in a lift. Continue reading...

Events

4 w. ago Moment masked thieves smash up pawnbrokers shop in broad daylight before fleeing the scene

This is the shocking moment masked thieves target a pawnbrokers shop in Derby city centre.

Politics

4 w. ago Shop owner hid thousands of illegal cigarettes and vapes in secret compartment hidden above light fitting

Peshawa Zada has been jailed for 'repeated offending' after around £100k worth of illegal products were seized from his shop in the city

Events

last month Yobs smash through window of city centre shop in broad daylight

The raid took place in Derby city centre today

Politics