22 m. ago Met chief apologises to broadcaster Selina Scott over police response to her mugging

The 74-year-old former news anchor said she felt ‘humiliated and angry’ after the incident.

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35 m. ago London travel news LIVE: Faulty trains cause chaos across TfL network

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40 m. ago Naomi Campbell hits back after fans accused her and Miley Cyrus of being rude at a meet and greet

Naomi Campbell has hit back after she was accused of being 'rude' to fans with Miley Cyrus at a vinyl signing in London this week.

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49 m. ago Air India chaos as five passengers and two staff fall ill on flight from London

Seven people, including both passengers and flight crew, were taken ill during an Air India flight from London's Heathrow Airport on Monday, the airline has confirmed

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53 m. ago Edinburgh Airport appoints London Gatwick VP of aviation development as chief commercial officer

Edinburgh Airport appoints London Gatwick VP of aviation development as chief commercial officer  Passenger Terminal Today

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55 m. ago When to shop for reduced food at Tesco, Aldi, Lidl, Asda and Sainsbury’s

Full list of times UK supermarkets start selling reduced yellow sticker food

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64 m. ago London weather: Second heatwave only days away after brief pause to sweltering summer

Warm sunshine is expected to return very soon after a damp start to Tuesday

Society

80 m. ago Labour support plunges in London as it 'sheds votes' to Reform, Tories, Lib Dems and Greens, new poll shows

Sir Keir Starmer’s party is on 32% - an 11 point drop since the general election last July, according to the new poll

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82 m. ago Labour's support plunges in London as it 'sheds votes' to Reform, Tories, Lib Dems and Greens, new poll shows

Sir Keir Starmer’s party is on 32% - an 11 point drop since the general election last July, according to the new poll

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84 m. ago Met chief apologises to broadcaster Selina Scott amid her fury after mugging

The 74-year-old former news anchor said she felt ‘humiliated and angry’ after the incident.

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1 hour ago Arsenal could battle Tottenham for Christian Norgaard after Martin Zubimendi deal

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Economics

1 hour ago Witness in a Time of Turmoil by Ian Mayes review – a lively history of the Guardian

A lively history of the paper from 1986 to 1995 covers global upheaval, internal conflict and a bold but brilliant redesignIn my early career as a cultural historian, I made many journeys along the Northern line in London to the now defunct British Newspaper Library at Colindale. It was a melancholy place, with that vanilla-and-almonds smell of decomposing ink and paper, and little crumbs of disintegrated newspaper on the floor by the reading desks. Like the mayfly, a newspaper is meant to die on the day it is born. News now lives longer on the Guardian website, but prominently displayed warnings tell us when an article is more than a month old. “Who wants yesterday’s papers?” the Rolling Stones sang. “Nobody in the world.”So newspaper history is a tricky genre that must capture the ephemeral and show why it matters. Ian Mayes’s excellent book follows two previous, quasi-official volumes of Guardian history by David Ayerst and Geoffrey Taylor. It begins in 1986 when the Guardian was...

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2 h. ago London travel news LIVE: Severe delays on Multiple TfL lines

Travel updates from around the capital

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2 h. ago Video shows missiles over Qatar after Iran fires at US military base

Eyewitness footage captured missiles in Qatar's skies after the country's airspace was closed on Monday, 23 June.

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2 h. ago Tom Cruise surprises Brad Pitt at F1 London premiere, internet cheers: ‘Last Hollywood stars’ | Watch

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3 h. ago Moment prolific shoplifter nabbed in wave of undercover Met Police sting operations

George Nicholson one of 12 arrested after targeting Co-op store under surveillance in south London, new Deputy Commissioner Matt Jukes told

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3 h. ago Voices: ‘This project has always been the wrong way round’: Readers split on future of HS2

Independent readers are split on the future of HS2. While some argued, ‘if you were only going to build half, you’d build the other half’ in the North, others said the project should be scrapped before more money is wasted

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4 h. ago Adorable moment bear cubs caught on video playing childhood favourite game

This is the moment a trail camera captured a pair of bear cubs playing what looked like a childhood playground game.

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4 h. ago Queen Elizabeth memorial: Prince Philip tribute and translucent glass bridge included in chosen Lord Foster design

Lord Foster has been selected to create the memorial on the site next to Buckingham Palace in St James’s Park

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4 h. ago Why travellers should leave city breaks behind to slow down on Sweden’s islands this summer

Looking for a respite from London, Natalie Wilson swapped bikes and city lights for seaweed and saunas on Sweden’s lesser trodden archipelago

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