33 h. ago BCCI told not to force Virat Kohli to play domestic cricket: ‘He comes, scores runs and then goes back to London’ | Cricket

BCCI told not to force Virat Kohli to play domestic cricket: ‘He comes, scores runs and then goes back to London’ | Cricket  Hindustan Times

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62 h. ago The inspiring London runner turning a lifelong dream into hope for others

The inspiring London runner turning a lifelong dream into hope for others  Yahoo News UK

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3 d. ago Businessman, 21, runs company spreading across London 4 months after being shot in crossfire

Businessman, 21, runs company spreading across London 4 months after being shot in crossfire  MyLondon

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4 d. ago Confidence runs high in London’s Little Morocco as Afcon glory beckons

Atlas Lions face Senegal in final of Africa Cup of Nations on Sunday and Moroccan diaspora scents victoryLondon’s Little Morocco is brimming with pride and anticipation. The Moroccan diaspora in North Kensington is in no doubt that on Sunday the Atlas Lions will triumph against Senegal in the final of the Africa Cup of Nations.“There’s not just an excitement, it has completely taken over everything else,” said Souad Talsi, who runs the Al-Hasaniya Moroccan women’s centre at the base of 31-storey Trellick Tower, at the north end of Golborne Road. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago How hard can it be to run 13 miles? With help from the pub, park and peas I am finding out | Barry Glendenning

Goaded by my colleague into a half-marathon, I can’t say I’m enjoying the training but I’m slowly improving, and at least Great Ormond Street benefitsMy name is Barry and I’m a runner. As a clinically obese 52-year-old Irishman who regularly binge drinks (the NHS’s joyless definition, not my own), I would love to be able to say I took up running for health reasons but that would be a lie. Truth be told, I was railroaded into it by my Football Weekly associate Max Rushden, who publicly challenged me to run the London Landmarks Half-Marathon after I had belittled the efforts of a friend who completed it by asking: “How hard can running 13 miles be?” To cut an already short story shorter, in April I hope to plod from Whitehall, past Big Ben, the Houses of Parliament across Westminster Bridge, along Victoria Embankment and on to Trafalgar Square in the company of more than 20,000 fellow runners, most of whom should finish in front of me if they have so much as a modicum of shame.I will ...

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5 d. ago 'Serious' incident as private jet left stranded after sliding

'Serious' incident as private jet left stranded after sliding-off runway at London airport  MyLondon

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5 d. ago Indra Just Landed A $1.1 Billion Deal To Run London Ticketing

Indra Just Landed A $1.1 Billion Deal To Run London Ticketing  Finimize

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6 d. ago Burst water pipe leaves 'river' running down West London road for 4 days

Burst water pipe leaves 'river' running down West London road for 4 days  MyLondon

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7 d. ago Ariana Grande to make London stage debut alongside Jonathan Bailey in Sunday in the Park With George

The singer will reunite with her Wicked co-star in a revival of the musical inspired by artist Georges Seurat in summer 2027Wicked co-stars Ariana Grande and Jonathan Bailey are to reunite on stage in Stephen Sondheim’s Pulitzer prize-winning musical Sunday in the Park With George. The production, hotly rumoured and finally announced on Wednesday, will run at the Barbican Centre, London, in summer 2027.Sunday in the Park With George, which has a book by Sondheim’s long-term collaborator James Lapine, is a tale of two artists. One is inspired by the pointillist Georges Seurat and the other is the character’s great-grandson. On Wednesday, Bailey and Grande shared a photo on Instagram of them sitting in front of the Seurat painting that inspired the production, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, which is on display in the Art Institute of Chicago. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago London railway fire recap: Trains run as scheduled after several crews fight blaze on tracks

Queen's Road Peckham and South Bermondsey stations in south London were affected by the train track fire, which the London Fire Brigade described as "very visible"

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9 d. ago 'Lazy' police officer who Tasered suspected burglar on shed before fall left him in wheelchair 'did not want to chase after him', court told

Leonard Sandiford was running away from police in Woodford Green, east London, when he reached a cul-de-sac and climbed onto a shed.

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9 d. ago Sorry, Trump and Farage – London is no lawless ‘warzone’. Violent crime is lower than ever | Sadiq Khan

Reform’s new candidate for mayor claims people pity Londoners for living in an unsafe capital. But the evidence is clear: we’re making our streets saferLast year, something extraordinary happened in London. As the conversation about crime got even louder, London quietly reached the lowest per capita homicide rate in its recorded history. Even London’s harshest critics have to accept this is impressive progress.For too many, it will no doubt come as a surprise. In recent years, politicians and commentators have sought to spam our social media feeds with an endless stream of distortions and untruths – painting a dystopian picture of a lawless place where criminals run rampant.Sadiq Khan is the mayor of London Continue reading...

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1 week ago Chess: Hastings Masters guards tradition and produces an English co

IM Alex Golding, 22, who earned nearly £2,000, is among the rising talents aiming to match the leading English grandmastersHastings is the grandfather of international chess tournaments, first staged in 1895 and then every year since 1920, with breaks for war and pandemics. Its vintage years were the 1930s, 50s and 70s, when world champions and challengers lined up to compete, while the badminton legend Sir George Thomas and the Bletchley Park codebreaker Hugh Alexander both shared first after defeating renowned opponents.Nowadays, Hastings has publicity problems, sandwiched as it is between the London Classic and Tata Steel Wijk and Zee, and running simultaneously with the Magnus Carlsen show in the World Rapid/Blitz. Continue reading...

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1 week ago ECU running back transfer London Montgomery commits to Florida

ECU running back transfer London Montgomery commits to Florida  On3

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1 week ago Secret heartbreak of the 'vigilante mum' (of seven) running to be Reform's London mayor whose French husband left her and their children to run off to Dubai with another woman

She is the glamorous lawyer Nigel Farage hopes will topple Sadiq Khan to become Mayor of London - but behind Laila Cunningham's tough rhetoric lies a secret heartbreak.

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1 week ago Moment Met PC on trial for GBH Tasers man ‘who fell 6ft’ and was left paralysed

Jurors hear Leonard Sandiford was running away from constable Liam Newman when stunned in east London

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1 week ago London travel news LIVE: Tube running smoothly after earlier delays and suspensions

Faulty trains and signal failures caused travel chaos for commuters

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1 week ago Reform UK picks Muslim candidate Laila Cunningham to run for London mayor

Reform UK picks Muslim candidate Laila Cunningham to run for London mayor  The Arab Weekly

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2 w. ago The 'vigilante mum' (of seven) running to be Reform's London mayor: Laila Cunningham is the Muslim daughter of migrants Farage hopes can beat Sadiq Khan

The former CPS prosecutor was once labelled a 'vigilante mum' after tracking down and chasing muggers who targeted some of her seven children.

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2 w. ago Nigel Farage vows to unseat Sadiq Khan as he unveils Reform's candidate to be London mayor with blast at 'crime wave run by foreign criminal gangs' under Labour

Nigel Farage vows to unseat Sadiq Khan as he unveils Reform's candidate to be London mayor with blast at 'crime wave run by foreign criminal gangs' under Labour  Daily Mail

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