59 m. ago Stormzy and Zaha’s football club blasts Croydon Council over pitch takeover and fly

The club has now been forced to cancel a junior football event scheduled for this weekend due to security fears

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63 m. ago Mel B kisses new husband Rory McPhee after marrying at St Paul's Cathedral – with Emma Bunton only Spice Girl to attend

Mel B tied the knot with Rory McPhee at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London on Saturday, with the happy couple posing for pictures on the steps of the historic venue and sharing a kiss

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79 m. ago Voices: The Dalai Lama’s 90th birthday will reignite China’s religion problem – and put Tibet back in Xi’s firing line

The Dalai Lama’s 90th birthday today will shine a spotlight on Beijing’s long-held antipathy towards organised religion – and how succession plans might renew Xi’s plans for a reckoning with Tibet and beyond, writes Michael Day

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82 m. ago 29 detained in London for supporting banned ‘Palestine Action’

29 detained in London for supporting banned ‘Palestine Action’  JNS.org

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2 h. ago Doctor warns of upsetting risk of weight loss jabs EVERY user should know about

Internet forums such as Reddit are buzzing with questions from concerned people who have noticed a visible side effect from using weight loss jabs- and it's not a smaller waistline.

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2 h. ago Elite royal protection unit called in for Notting Hill Carnival over safety concerns

Hundreds of highly trained specialists will be deployed to help uphold security at the two-day event

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2 h. ago Fontaines DC display words ‘Israel is committing genocide’ on screen at sell

Fontaines DC played to a crowd of 45,000 people in London

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2 h. ago Scots man 'spent £400 a month on takeaways' before starting Mounjaro

Michael Monaghan felt 'everything was failing' after trying for years to lose weight.

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2 h. ago Scots man who weighed 22st spent £400 a month on takeaways before Mounjaro

Michael Monaghan felt 'everything was failing' after trying for years to lose weight.

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2 h. ago New safety tech, road widening planned for London Bridge Road

New safety tech, road widening planned for London Bridge Road  Havasu News

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3 h. ago Wimbledon chaos: Southfields Tube station ‘struggling to cope’ with tennis crowds as Lime bikes clog pavements

Southfields has seen extensive train delays at the station this week as well as piles of Lime bikes clogging pavements

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3 h. ago Wimbledon chaos: London Tube station ‘struggling to cope’ with tennis crowds as Lime bikes clog pavements

Southfields has seen extensive train delays at the station this week as well as piles of Lime bikes clogging pavements

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3 h. ago China wants to build a massive new embassy in central London: here's why that's a problem

China wants to build a massive new embassy in central London: here's why that's a problem  The Week

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4 h. ago London's sunniest pubs: the top 10 places to drink in the centre of town if you want a tan

Those in search of pints in the sun, this guide is all you need

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4 h. ago 'I realised I was an amputee when I saw my leg hanging above me after train exploded'

EXCLUSIVE: Martine Wright is the most injured female survivor of the 7/7 London bombings, which claimed the lives of 52 victims, and spoke to us about that life-changing moment 20 years ago

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5 h. ago ‘Women were grabbed and dragged away like sacks’ – a history of British protest in pictures

Since 1963, when he photographed a fellow student being arrested, David Hoffman has turned his camera on rebels and rioters. His archive tells an alternative story of Britain, from Greenham Common to students marching on WhitehallDuncan Campbell on the power of protestFrom the suffragettes at the start of the last century to Reclaim the Night in the 1970s; from the battle of Cable Street against the British Union of Fascists in 1936 to the Anti-Nazi League marches four decades later; from the million marchers against the Iraq war in 2003 in London to the massive turnouts across the country two decades later against the war in Gaza, protest has been a vital and constant part of the fabric of British society. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago ‘We are in a dangerous place’: British Muslims on the fallout from 7/7 attack 20 years on

Many feel counter-terrorism policies and brazen Islamophobia have increased hostility and isolation experience by communityFor many in the British Muslim community, the tragedy of 7 July 2005 lives long in the memory. The bombings sent shockwaves through the nation but also marked a turning point that left many grappling with grief, fear and a new scrutiny of their identity.Twenty years on, feelings of suspicion, isolation and hostility experienced in the aftermath of the attacks have, for some, only worsened after decades of UK counter-terrorism policies, and a political landscape they say has allowed Islamophobia to flourish. Continue reading...

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5 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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5 h. ago London bombings: I survived 7/7, but still see the suicide bomber everywhere

London bombings: I survived 7/7, but still see the suicide bomber everywhere  BBC

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5 h. ago London leaver: 'It's easy to almost forget there's life outside the M25'

On Friday evenings Tori Halman and her boyfriend Rob Overall would be cosy at home, cooking pasta and enjoying a glass of wine, while listening to the shrieks and shouts of twentysomething revellers beginning their big nights out.

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