15 h. ago Kaliyah Coa: Body found in River Thames during search for missing 11

Kaliyah Coa, 11, was last seen entering the water near Barge House Causeway in east London on Monday, March 31, with emergency services crews conducting a huge search.

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15 h. ago New south east London Wetherspoons to open earlier than planned

New south east London Wetherspoons to open earlier than planned  News Shopper

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15 h. ago Heartbreak as body found in Thames search for missing schoolgirl, Kaliyah Coa, 11

Kaliyah Coa, 11, went missing in the River Thames on March 31 in east London and police have been searching for her body in the days since she disappeared

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16 h. ago Missing Kaliyah Coa: Body found in River Thames search for missing 11

Kaliyah, who had been playing during a school inset day, entered the water near Barge House Causeway, close to London City Airport, in east London on Monday, March 31

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22 h. ago Expert warns hay fever season has arrived early as ‘pollen bomb’ hits UK

Pollen levels in London and the South East of England reached ‘very high’ levels on Sunday

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26 h. ago Who stole all the cheese? The inside story of the boom in luxury food heists

Who would steal 22 tonnes of posh cheese, or £37,000 of smoked salmon? A rise in fraudulent orders for luxury foodstuffs has rattled the UK industry, leaving artisan producers with unpaid bills and a truckload of questions One day in October 2024, Chris Swales, 54, a smoked-salmon producer with a confident demeanour and a stubbled jaw, stood at the gates of an industrial estate in east London staking out the units. There were teenagers loitering about, knackered cars, XL Bullies; everyone seemed to have more than one phone. It didn’t seem like the sort of place where nine pallets of frozen fish would be delivered, but – he checked the address he had noted down from the courier – this was the place.A couple of months earlier, Swales couldn’t have imagined that he’d be sniffing around Walthamstow on the hunt for £37,000 in missing produce, yet here he was. In August, he’d received an email – subject: “Collaboration” – from a man named Patrick Moulin, who claimed to be the buyer for Ma...

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38 h. ago Kaliane Bradley: ‘I dreaded the book going to people I know’

The author of bestseller The Ministry of Time on how lockdown telly, Terry Pratchett and her Cambodian heritage shaped her Arctic time travel taleKaliane Bradley, 36, lives in east London and works as an editor at Penguin Classics. Her debut novel, The Ministry of Time (Sceptre), was published last year to critical acclaim and a place in the bestseller charts and is out in paperback now. It’s a vivid time travel tale following Lieutenant Graham Gore, a crew member of Franklin’s lost 1845 Arctic expedition, who is brought back to life in the 21st century as part of a government experiment. He develops an unlikely relationship with his “bridge”, a contemporary character helping him assimilate to the modern world. It was longlisted for the 2025 women’s prize for fiction and the BBC has commissioned a TV adaptation.What has the past year been like for you?Lovely and discombobulating. I veer wildly between immense gratitude and intense impostor syndrome. But I’m still working 4.5 days a ...

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38 h. ago Death toll from Dominican club roof collapse rises to 225 after 4 die overnight

Health officials say four people hospitalized after being rescued from the rubble of a roof collapse at a popular nightclub in the Dominican Republic died overnight

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44 h. ago Met Office issues red alert warning as Britain basks in glorious sunshine

Sunday will see most of the UK facing medium or high alerts, while very high warnings will remain in place for London and the South East of England, the East, the West Midlands and the East Midlands.

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59 h. ago 3 rescued and fuel spilled from fishing boat stuck in Boston Harbor

The Coast Guard says a commercial fishing boat got stuck in Boston Harbor, necessitating the rescue of three people and potentially releasing thousands of gallons of fuel into the harbor

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63 h. ago Shocking moment East London gang with machetes hack helpless victim to death in back of taxi

Shocking moment East London gang with machetes hack helpless victim to death in back of taxi  Yahoo News UK

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68 h. ago Kara Alexander: East London mum who drowned two young sons in the bath jailed

The judge warned of the dangers of strong strains of cannabis in his sentencing remarks

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3 d. ago Men hid man's body in boot for 22 days found guilty of manslaughter

When police arrived at Benjamin's flat officers found that it had been cleared of most furniture and the carpet had been ripped up and removed -the flat also appeared to have been recently deep-cleaned

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3 d. ago Residents 'scream for help' in terrifying flat block blaze in London

The blaze, which engulfed the building, has left 11 people in hospital.

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3 d. ago Bethnal Green fire: Desperate screams of 'help, help' in video of 'terrifying' blaze

Locals have been stunned by the "sheer ferocity" of the blaze that ripped through Bradbeer House flats in Bethnal Green, East London, causing residents to flee in panic

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3 d. ago Behind Aviva's strength in London and the South East – staying agile in a fast

Behind Aviva's strength in London and the South East – staying agile in a fast-paced market  Insurance Business America

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3 d. ago Bethnal Green fire: Screams of horror as residents flee blaze with 11 injured

Three flats in Bradbeer House, Bethnal Green were consumed by a raging fire at around midnight last night - with the London Fire Brigade sending scores of firefighters to tackle the devastating blaze

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3 d. ago Bethnal Green fire: East London flats engulfed in flames with 11 hospitalised

Bethnal Green fire: East London flats engulfed in flames with 11 hospitalised  Daily Express

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4 d. ago Bethnal Green fire: Eleven injured and dozens evacuated as horror fire rips through east London block

Cops and emergency services scrambled to Bradbeer House in Bethnal Green just before midnight after thick smoke was seen around the building - with the blaze leaving 11 people injured

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4 d. ago Bethnal Green fire: Seven people rescued and 11 taken to hospital as blaze rips through flats in east London

Seventeen people were treated on scene by London Ambulance Service crews and 11 of those were taken to hospital

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