6 h. ago Driverless taxis will operate in London 'within weeks' in major milestone for city's transport ambitions

Waymo, which is owned by Google's parent company Alphabet, plans to launch its autonomous vehicles in the capital next year after rivals Uber and Wayve announce trials

Politics

6 h. ago Watch: Will Arnett tries joke on The Independent at ‘Is This Thing on?’ premiere

Will Arnett flexed his newly sharpened comic timing during the premiere for comedy Is This Thing On? at the BFI London Film Festival on Tuesday (14 October).

Politics

7 h. ago Driverless taxis coming to London in 2026 with promises of 'safer roads'

Driverless taxis coming to London in 2026 with promises of 'safer roads'  Brent & Kilburn Times

Transport

8 h. ago Forget Uber, Waymo’s driverless taxis will arrive in London in 2026

Forget Uber, Waymo’s driverless taxis will arrive in London in 2026  Top Gear

Politics

9 h. ago Driverless taxis to operate on London's roads from next year

Driverless taxis to operate on London's roads from next year  Sky News

Transport

9 h. ago Driverless taxis are coming to London's streets in the Spring

Driverless taxis are coming to London's streets in the Spring  London Centric | Jim Waterson

Politics

12 h. ago London becomes first European city to get driverless taxi service

London becomes first European city to get driverless taxi service  The Independent

Politics

13 h. ago Driverless taxis from Waymo will be on London’s roads next year, US firm announces

Cars with human safety drivers will appear in coming weeks as permissions are sought for fully autonomous ridesDriverless taxis from Waymo will be available for hire on London’s roads next year, the US company has announced.The UK capital will become the first European city to have an autonomous taxi service of the kind now familiar in San Francisco and four other US cities using Waymo’s technology. Continue reading...

Economics

13 h. ago Waymo’s driverless taxis will be on London’s roads by next year

Waymo’s driverless taxis will be on London’s roads by next year  The Times

Transport

17 h. ago More rice, bigger chairs and reinforced toilets: sumo wrestling comes to London | Andy Bull

Royal Albert Hall to host Grand Sumo Tournament marking only the second time a full competition is held overseasThey play Major League Baseball at the Olympic Stadium, Tottenham’s ground is a second home for the National Football League, the National Basketball Association is staging a game at the 02 Arena next year, and South Africa just beat New Zealand in a rugby Test at Twickenham, but it’s been a long time since London has hosted anything on the scale of the Grand Sumo Tournament taking place at the Royal Albert Hall this week. Forty wrestlers have flown over from Japan to compete in it. That’s around six tons of elite athlete to be fed, watered, transported and supported.“We’ve actually had to source and buy new chairs which can take up to 200kg in weight,” says Matthew Todd, the Royal Albert Hall’s harassed director of programming. “Our usual standard is only 100kg.” They’ve also had to reinforce the toilets. “It’s the ones that are screwed into the wall which are the most ch...

Politics

17 h. ago More rice, bigger chairs and reinforced toilets: sumo wrestling comes to London

Royal Albert Hall to host Grand Sumo Tournament marking only the second time a full competition is held overseasThey play Major League Baseball at the Olympic Stadium, Tottenham’s ground is a second home for the National Football League, the National Basketball Association is staging a game at the 02 Arena next year, and South Africa just beat New Zealand in a rugby Test at Twickenham, but it’s been a long time since London has hosted anything on the scale of the Grand Sumo Tournament taking place at the Royal Albert Hall this week. Forty wrestlers have flown over from Japan to compete in it. That’s around six tons of elite athlete to be fed, watered, transported and supported.“We’ve actually had to source and buy new chairs which can take up to 200kg in weight,” says Matthew Todd, the Royal Albert Hall’s harassed director of programming. “Our usual standard is only 100kg.” They’ve also had to reinforce the toilets. “It’s the ones that are screwed into the wall which are the most ch...

Politics

26 h. ago Road to nowhere: Prankster sends 50 Waymo driverless taxis to dead

Riley Walz, a young software engineer, announced that he was behind the stunt

Events

30 h. ago BBC Match of the Day pundit Ashley Williams alleged to have threatened official in kids' football match

The former Swansea City and Wales captain is said to have strongly denied the accusations which have come to light in a London newspaper

Politics

36 h. ago London premiere of award winning boxing play comes to a pub theatre in Kennington

London premiere of award winning boxing play comes to a pub theatre in Kennington  Southwark News

Politics

3 d. ago ‘I wanted to write more than I wanted to have children’: author Sarah Perry on rejecting motherhood

When the novelist was faced with the decision of whether to pursue fertility treatment or focus on her career, her literary ambitions kicked inFifteen years ago, having said all my life that I never wanted a baby, that I couldn’t fathom why any free woman would do such a thing to her body and her mind, I suddenly and passionately wanted a child. I remember where I was when this feeling, so heretical to me, arrived: it was early morning in London, and having come down Fleet Street on my way to work, I was standing at the till of a newsagents to pay for a Diet Coke, a flapjack and a pack of Silk Cut. There were no children there and no pregnant women; nothing had been said or done to change my mind. It had simply landed on me, and more or less immediately – because I’ve never known how to control an impulse, and because I was 30, which seemed to me then a great age – my husband, Robert, and I set about trying to have a child.When for s...

Culture

5 d. ago Moss and Freud review – Kate meets Lucian and they get on brilliantly with absolutely no funny business at all

London film festival: The supermodel comes across as a dippy trustafarian and the artist like her soppy old grandpa in this bland, legacy-protecting depiction of their friendshipWhen Lucian Freud met Kate Moss turns out to be the encounter of a sweet, cuddly old gentleman and a guardedly opaque hedonist. Both look defanged.Freud’s sensational Naked Portrait 2002 is a nude study of the supermodel, to whom he had been introduced by his daughter, the fashion designer Bella Freud. Moss was pregnant when she sat for him – which lent a fierce, additional frisson to the painting’s candour and intimacy. Ellie Bamber plays Kate and carries off the unclothed moments with great directness and aplomb. Freud is played with Germanic R sounds by Derek Jacobi (who incidentally played Freud’s contemporary Francis Bacon in John Maybury’s Love Is the Devil in 1998) and he has Freud’s buzzard-like look but not quite the sharpness and severity. Continue reading...

Politics

5 d. ago Comex silver seen heading back to London due to record spot prices

Comex silver seen heading back to London due to record spot prices  Yahoo Finance

Politics

6 d. ago King Charles and Prince William come together for a rare joint engagement at London's Natural History Museum

King Charles and Prince William are at the Natural History Museum in London for 'Countdown to COP30', which brings together organisations and individuals tackling the environmental crisis.

Politics

6 d. ago London gets £36.5m boost to tackle homelessness as council temporary accommodation bills soar

It comes after London boroughs revealed they were collectively spending a staggering £5.5m a day to tackle homelessness

Economics

6 d. ago London writer's comedy hailed 'best series of the year' now streaming

London writer's comedy hailed 'best series of the year' now streaming  My London

Culture