70 m. ago Young man stabbed to death outside Wetherspoons pub as punters try to save him

Police have launched a murder investigation after a 26-year-old was stabbed to death near The Kings Ford pub on Chingford Mount Road in East London on Sunday evening

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2 h. ago The young Oscar Wilde’s Russian revolutionary drama reveals a playwright divided

Vera; or, The Nihilists concerns a plot to kill a tsar but after Alexander II was assassinated, its London premiere was cancelled. Now receiving a rare production, it captures his conflict between ethics and aestheticsWho wrote the following: “When private property is abolished, there will be no necessity for crime”? In one of his plays the same writer has a female revolutionary cry: “How easy is it for a king to kill his people by thousands but we cannot rid ourselves of one crowned man in Europe.” If I reveal that the writer was a London-based Irishman, most people would assume it was Bernard Shaw. In fact, it was Oscar Wilde and, while the first quote comes from his essay The Soul of Man Under Socialism, the last is from his play Vera; or, The Nihilists which is to get a rare professional production at the Brockley Jack Studio theatre, south-east London, in September.The play itself is virtually unknown even to Wildean devotees. It was written in 1879 and loosely based on the sto...

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2 h. ago Chingford murder: Man stabbed to death on busy east London street

Despite the best efforts of the emergency services, a man died at the scene in north-east London on Sunday

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5 h. ago Erin Patterson trial latest: First photos of deadly beef wellington mushroom lunch released

Pictures first shown to the jury of the meal that contained death cap mushrooms have been released by the court

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5 h. ago Love Island Casa Amor boy Cach is already huge TikTok star with connection to winner

Love Island's Cach is yet to make his villa debut but the professional dancer from East London already boosts over 740k followers on TikTok and is friends with some former Islanders

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6 h. ago Erin Patterson trial latest: Australian woman found guilty of murdering in

Patterson claimed poisoning that killed three in-laws and made a fourth gravely ill was accidental, as her trial gripped the nation for weeks

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7 h. ago Erin Patterson trial live: Australian woman found guilty of murdering in

Patterson claimed poisoning that killed three in-laws and made a fourth gravely ill was accidental, as her trial gripped the nation for weeks

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7 h. ago How a family’s beef wellington lunch ended with three dead and a mother guilty of murder

The key question in the Australian murder trial of Erin Patterson was how fatal death cap mushrooms got into the meal, Rachel Clun writes

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9 h. ago Australia mushroom trial verdicts live: Erin Patterson jury indicates it has reached verdicts

Triple murder accused to learn fate in trial over beef wellington lunch that contained death cap mushrooms – follow updatesWho are Erin Patterson and the other key figures in Australia’s mushroom lunch trial?Lunchtime rush at Morwell courtI’m at Latrobe Valley law courts in Morwell, where the jury are have indicated they’ve reached their verdict after seven days of deliberations in the triple murder trial of Erin Patterson. Continue reading...

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13 h. ago The moment desperate drivers  realise they've been snared by London's most

Greenwich Council are raking in £16,500 a day from fines dished out to locals who drive through camera enforced LTN roads in East Greenwich, south-east London.

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22 h. ago 7/7 bombing 20 years on: What happened on morning that brought Middle East war to London

More than 52 people died and a further 770 people were injured when four British-born suicide bombers set off explosives across the London transport system during the morning peak hour, in Britain's deadliest terror attack

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32 h. ago From swim schools to eye clinics: how families of 7/7 victims used heartbreak to help others

Relatives tell of their determination to see good come from the killing of their loved ones in 2005 London bombingsIn the city of Bhubaneswar, the capital of the north-east Indian state of Odisha, there is an eye clinic that has transformed the lives of thousands of children.Before the unit was established in 2008, according to its vice-chair, there was no dedicated children’s eye care centre in the entire eastern part of India, a country home to 20% of the world’s blind children. The clinic now sees about 3,000 children a month and performs 350 eye surgeries – a significant proportion of them at no cost to the often very poor families who need them. Continue reading...

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56 h. ago ‘We promised change but people aren’t feeling it yet’: Labour rues poor first year

MPs, aides and other party figures reflect on what went wrong and how they could still turn things aroundIn a stiflingly hot room at a health centre in East London, as he announced the government’s 10-year plan for the NHS on Thursday, Keir Starmer was confronted with a brutal assessment of his first year in power.“You’ve U-turned on your reforms, your MPs don’t trust you, and markets worry that you’ve lost resolve on fiscal discipline. It’s the epitome, isn’t it, of sticking-plaster politics and chaos that you promised voters you would end?” a television journalist asked. Continue reading...

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57 h. ago The crafted home: an east London temple to tiebacks, tassels and trims

The crafted home: an east London temple to tiebacks, tassels and trims  Financial Times

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57 h. ago 'I'd long abandoned hot dogs but not now I've found this trendy gem'

'I'd long abandoned hot dogs but not now I've found this trendy gem'  East London Advertiser

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57 h. ago You can have the chance to ride on vintage 1930s London tube carriages

You can have the chance to ride on vintage 1930s London tube carriages  East London Advertiser

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57 h. ago More cash given for new south east London Overground station

More cash given for new south east London Overground station  News Shopper

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68 h. ago Mum and daughter die in horror car crash as dad and sister remain in hospital

Six-year-old Ella and her mum Natalie, a well-known nurse, were killed in the collision with a van on Wednesday.

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3 d. ago Deliveroo and Uber Eats riders are being 'targeted' for vehicle theft, Met Police say

It comes amid a surge in vehicle thefts in London’s east end

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3 d. ago Moment police arrest county lines 'gang member' during dawn raid as they shut down 100 drugs networks in a week

This is the moment dozens of police officers smashed their way into the east London home of a suspected county lines criminal as they crackdown on 100 drug networks in a single week. 

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