12 h. ago Woman found dead at home in east London with murder investigation launched

Woman found dead at home in east London with murder investigation launched  thisislocallondon.co.uk

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12 h. ago Combat intensifies as One Battle After Another takes 14 Bafta nominations to Sinners’ 13

Paul Thomas Anderson’s gonzo caper takes slight nominations lead over the Ryan Coogler horror, with surprise five noms for British Tourette movie I Swear• Full list of nominationsSinners may have made history last week, when it became the first film ever to secure 16 Oscar nominations, but it was its awards season rival, One Battle After Another, that proved narrowly victorious at Tuesday’s Bafta nominations.Paul Thomas Anderson’s counterculture comedy heads into the competition with 14 nominations, while Ryan Coogler’s vampire thriller has 13. Meanwhile Marty Supreme and Hamnet are close on their heels with 11 nominations each, and Frankenstein and Sentimental Value have eight nods apiece. Continue reading...

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12 h. ago Government accused of 'betraying' London leaseholders as £250 ground rent cap announced

In its manifesto, Labour promised to ‘act where the Conservatives have failed and finally bring the feudal leasehold system to an end’

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12 h. ago Richard Osman and his Dr Who actress wife Ingrid use Netflix royalties cash from his book The Thursday Murder Club to snap up new £9million home

The novelist, 55 and his Dr Who actress wife Ingrid Oliver, 48, have uphgraded from their £1million home to purchase their new sprawling five bed home in London for a cool £9million

Economics

12 h. ago Why Starmer’s China trip has come at the worst possible time

Keir Starmer is the first PM since Theresa May to visit China, but political editor David Maddox explains why a trip to Beijing now – amid faltering relations with the US and speculation about a leadership challenge at home – leaves the prime minister exposed

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12 h. ago ‘One Battle After Another’ scoops 14 nominations for UK’s BAFTA film awards

Paul Thomas Anderson’s politically charged action thriller “One Battle After Another” leads the race for the British Academy Film Awards, with 14 nominations including acting nods for five of its cast

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12 h. ago Bafta nominations 2026 LIVE: Hamnet and Sinners set to lead nominees

The Bafta nominations are announced today and Hamnet and Sinners are leading the way ahead of next month's ceremony in London

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12 h. ago When will changes to ground rents happen and what difference will they make?

The reforms may fuel a short-term surge in supply of homes coming onto the market that have previously been hard to sell, an analyst suggested.

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12 h. ago Billie Piper ditches her red hair as she unveils a new blonde bob during a low

Billie Piper looked worlds away from herself on Monday as she showed off her new blonde hair do as she stepped out in Notting Hill, London. 

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12 h. ago Senior ministers wipe away tears as Holocaust survivor addresses Cabinet

Mala Tribich, 95, received a standing ovation after her five-minute speech at 10 Downing Street on Tuesday.

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12 h. ago Cap on ground rents will benefit more than 500,000 homeowners across London and the South

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said the cost of living ‘is the single most important thing across the country.’

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12 h. ago Know the score? I don’t read music, but that’s no hindrance to reimagining great classical works

Folk duo Pound & Stevens have transformed, and added to, Holst’s The Planets Suite and tour the new work this week with Britten Sinfonia. Will Pound explains why playing by ear is his greatest strengthI’m a harmonica and accordion player and one half of folk-classical duo Stevens & Pound. As a multi-instrumentalist I am rooted in a folk tradition that is oral, aural and communal. Music and song are passed down by ear, either through recordings or – more fun – traditional music sessions. Here, players and singers get together to share, swap and play tunes, drawing from a repertoire that is always evolving. While collections of tunes are certainly notated, their scores act as a skeleton – providing the basic architecture of pitch and rhythm but rarely offering explicit guidance on how the music should be played.Delia Stevens and I are about to head out on tour, performing with the Britten Sinfonia and Robert Macfarlane in a new work called The Silent Planet, a recomposition of...

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12 h. ago Father found dead in Hyde Park's Serpentine lake on Christmas Eve after going missing while visiting his sick son in London hospital

Gareth Griffiths, 45, had travelled to Londonf rom his home in Cornwall in early December to visit his youngest son, 13, who was undergoing a life-saving bone marrow transplant.

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12 h. ago Voices: ‘It’s chaos’: Readers on Labour infighting, Tory defections and Britain’s broken political system

Our community sees the Burnham by-election row and Suella Braverman’s defection as the latest symptoms of Britain’s broken politics, warning that Labour is increasingly mirroring the Conservatives it once opposed

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13 h. ago Lawyer, 44, who died on flight to London after falling asleep on her mother's shoulder had undiagnosed cardiac condition, inquest hears

Rachel Green was aboard the Delta flight to London from Minneapolis to conduct research for a novel she was writing about Eleanor of Aquitaine.

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13 h. ago Police taken to High Court over use of live recognition cameras after knife crime campaigner's 'human rights were violated' when he was wrongly identified as a suspect

Shaun Thompson, 39, a respected black community worker, was wrongly flagged up as a criminal after being filmed at London Bridge station.

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13 h. ago Murder investigation launched after woman, 58, found dead in her home in east London

A 57-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder after police found the woman’s body in Applegarth Drive, Ilford

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13 h. ago South London land left vacant by failed regeneration could see 550 homes as council permits sale

South London land left vacant by failed regeneration could see 550 homes as council permits sale  mylondon.news

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13 h. ago How China’s ‘Salt Typhoon’ hackers are waging war on West as Downing Street spying op exposed & Starmer heads to Beijing

SPIES from China are understood to have hacked the mobile phones of senior officials in Downing Street for several years. Aides close to Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak were targeted for three years, between 2021 and 2024, when all three served as Prime Ministers, before the operation was exposed. One source said the...

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13 h. ago Tributes to 'incredibly kind' London taxi driver killed in crash

Tributes to 'incredibly kind' London taxi driver killed in crash  mylondon.news

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