7 h. ago Controversial Liverpool Street station redevelopment decision delayed until next year

Further details added to redevelopment plans that include 19-storey tower over UK’s busiest station

Politics

6 d. ago Threats, fear and hope as Mumbai slum dwellers await the bulldozers

Dharavi’s 1m residents say community hub could become a playground for the rich under Adani Group’s redevelopment planFor months, the threatening phone calls kept coming. First, allegedly from an ex-police officer and a retired army general, and then from the police themselves. Finally, Mohammad Khurshid Shaikh claims, he was summoned to the police station and told clearly: keep quiet or there will be real trouble for you.Shaikh is among those fighting a multimillion-dollar project in which Dharavi – one of India’s largest and most storied slums – will be bulldozed and redeveloped by the multinational conglomerate Adani Group. Continue reading...

Events

9 d. ago UK weather: Exact date Indian summer will smash Britain with 17C heat surge

UK weather maps show the exact date in November when Brits could enjoy an Indian Summer with temperatures reaching as high as 17C in some parts of the country

Society

2 w. ago StreetSmart 2025: Restaurant charity launches new campaign to fight homelessness

The charity, founded in 1998, has raised more than £15 million for those in need

Society

2 w. ago London restaurant fined £120k for employing illegal workers fighting Home Office bid for it to be stripped of licence

A Home Office investigation had uncovered three Bulgarian women without the right to work in the UK employed at the popular eatery

Society

3 w. ago Britain’s oldest Indian restaurant could be lost forever after 99 years amid ‘devastating’ row over lease

BRITAIN's oldest Indian restaurant faces closure after 99 years amid a lease dispute and Crown Estate redevelopment plans. The Regent Street landmark has applied for special community status to try to stay open. Veeraswamy, which has been serving diners since 1926, faces closure after Westminster City Council approved Crown Estate plans to redevelop Victory House....

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3 w. ago London restaurant fights back against £1.5m fine over an extractor fan

London restaurant fights back against £1.5m fine over an extractor fan  London Evening Standard

Economics

3 w. ago Britain's oldest Indian restaurant fights against redevelopment plans that could close it down

Veeraswamy has been operating from Victory House in Leicester Square since 1926

Politics

3 w. ago The ‘enormous conflict of interest’ at centre of Jared Kushner’s Gaza ceasefire deal

US president’s son-in-law was instrumental in getting deal – which could bring him huge windfall if plan to redevelop Gaza ever comes to fruitionFor a man with no formal role in the White House, Jared Kushner last week literally took centre-stage as Donald Trump’s emissary to the Middle East.As the administration took a victory lap for hammering out a Gaza ceasefire last week, Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, stood in Tel Aviv’s ‘hostages square’, addressing a feverish crowd that had booed the mention of Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and later broke into chants of: “Thank You Trump!” Continue reading...

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