6 h. ago The best beach breaks within two hours of London for a chic staycation

Sister restaurants to your London favourites serving just-caught fish, chic shops, glorious stretches of beach — and all less than two hours from the capital. Here’s how to nail a day or weekend trip to the south coast this summer

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8 h. ago ‘Youths everywhere were spitting over tinny beats playing off a Nokia’: great grime photographer Simon Wheatley

He was young and broke when he became grime’s first documentarian. Then his book Don’t Call Me Urban captured the energy of the grittier first wave – and an expanded edition is finally hereIt’s an overcast Thursday morning, and photographer Simon Wheatley is doing a soft-shoe shuffle through Roman Road in Bow, east London, as a market stall blares out exquisite 70s funk. “That’s more like it,” he says, with a grin on his face. “A bit of energy.” This was once grime’s artery, its chaotic central hub, even its muse – a street Wiley once told me was “the nurturer” of local talents like him and Dizzee Rascal. And it was here, in the 2000s, that Wheatley would create a vivid and intimate document of grime in its frenzied flush of youth, and of working-class neighbourhoods like this before they became considerably more sedate. Fourteen years after the release of Don’t Call Me Urban, Wheatley’s long-sold-out photo-book from that era – once described by Vice as “grime’s Old Testament” – it ...

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30 h. ago London stocks fall as BoE keeps rates on hold; Middle East tensions persist

London stocks fall as BoE keeps rates on hold; Middle East tensions persist  KITCO

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30 h. ago London stocks fall as BoE keeps rates on hold; Middle East tensions persist By Reuters

London stocks fall as BoE keeps rates on hold; Middle East tensions persist By Reuters  Investing.com

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30 h. ago Netanyahu stuns Israelis by describing ‘personal cost’ of postponing son’s wedding

Israeli prime minister prompts furious backlash for remarks in front of missile-struck hospital at height of Iran conflict Middle East crisis – live updatesBenjamin Netanyahu has evoked the spirit of London during the blitz, and pointed to his own family’s sacrifice amid the blood, toil, tears and sweat of his nation: the second postponement of his son’s wedding.The Israeli prime minister’s remarks, solemnly delivered to the cameras against the backdrop of a missile-struck hospital building in the southern city of Be’er Sheva, set off a howl of derision that echoed around the Hebrew-language internet, at the height of a war that Netanyahu unleashed on Friday. Continue reading...

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30 h. ago Netanyahu stuns Israelis by describing ‘personal cost’ of Iran war

Israeli prime minister prompts furious backlash for remarks in front of missile-struck hospital at height of Iran conflict Middle East crisis – live updatesBenjamin Netanyahu has evoked the spirit of London during the blitz, and pointed to his own family’s sacrifice amid the blood, toil, tears and sweat of his nation: the second postponement of his son’s wedding.The Israeli prime minister’s remarks, solemnly delivered to the cameras against the backdrop of a missile-struck hospital building in the southern city of Be’er Sheva, set off a howl of derision that echoed around the Hebrew-language internet, at the height of a war that Netanyahu unleashed on Friday. Continue reading...

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33 h. ago Inside lair of rapist PhD student Zhenhao Zou chillingly fitted out with cameras

Zhenhao Zou would go out with women, before drugging and raping them in his flat in south-east London, which was covered in CCTV to film the depravity that went on inside

Society

35 h. ago Revealed: the seven boroughs where the number of £1m+ homes has more than doubled in six years

Rightmove has recorded a ‘substantial’ surge in million-pound homes for sale across Britain

Economics

37 h. ago London stocks slip as Middle East tensions persist; BoE in focus By Reuters

London stocks slip as Middle East tensions persist; BoE in focus By Reuters  Investing.com

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37 h. ago London stocks slip as Middle East tensions persist; BoE in focus

London stocks slip as Middle East tensions persist; BoE in focus  Reuters

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37 h. ago UK's central bank set to keep interest rates on hold amid Middle East uncertainties

The Bank of England is set to keep interest rates on hold as fears grow that the conflict between Israel and Iran will escalate to involve the United States and send oil prices soaring and push U.K. inflation further above target

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39 h. ago London metals ease on dollar strength; Middle East conflict in focus

London metals ease on dollar strength; Middle East conflict in focus  TradingView

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46 h. ago Moment commuter who dodged fares for eight months is confronted by investigaros after racking up £1,650 in unpaid tickets

The passenger who regularly commuted on Elizabeth line from Harold Wood or Romford to Stratford in East London was confronted with 35 pages of evidence dating back eight months.

Economics

46 h. ago Changing faces of the TOWIE stars:  Lauren Goodger admits she's 'ruined her looks' with plastic surgery...and she's not the only Essex girl who looks VERY different after finding fame on the show

When The Only Way Is Essex first hit screens back in 2010 a series of complete unknowns living in east London had no idea the level of spotlight and fame they were about to be thrust into.

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54 h. ago Race and lack of accountability involved in Child Q strip search, tribunal hears

A 15-year-old girl was strip searched by officers in Hackney, east London, on December 2020 after being wrongly being accused of carrying cannabis.

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55 h. ago Kneecap rapper granted bail on terror charge over Hezbollah flag at London gig

Kneecap rapper granted bail on terror charge over Hezbollah flag at London gig  Middle East Eye

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61 h. ago Woman stab victim in house explosion had ‘boundless optimism’, say charity

Annabel Rook, 46, was found fatally injured at a house in Dumont Road, Stoke Newington, north-east London on Tuesday morning.

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3 d. ago ‘Exceptional’: Jarman award nominees range from Algerian mountains to east London roads

‘Exceptional’: Jarman award nominees range from Algerian mountains to east London roads  The Guardian

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3 d. ago Voices: What do you have to do to sell your home in a property downturn?

As Rightmove reports that homeowners in London and the south-east are slashing asking prices, James Moore suggests things you can do to secure a sale

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3 d. ago Thug who murdered man for his phone in south east London park loses prison appeal

Thug who murdered man for his phone in south east London park loses prison appeal  Yahoo

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