20 h. ago Car salesman, 24, who killed colleague and suffered brain injury in 100mph BMW crash is ordered to get mental health treatment

Ivan Zailac, 24, ploughed into a 26-tonne truck at well over double the speed limit killing passenger Stephanie Nye-Diroyan, 21, in Enfield, north London.

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31 h. ago How the horror unfolded: A timeline of events 20 years on from the deadly 7/7 London bombings that killed 52

It has been 20 years since the horrific July 7 bombings in London that killed 52 people and injured nearly 800.

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31 h. ago Keir Starmer and Sadiq Khan lay wreaths at 7/7 bombings memorial

Prime minister Keir Starmer and London mayor Sadiq Khan laid wreaths at the 7/7 memorial in Hyde Park today (7 July), in a service commemorating the 20th anniversary of the 2005 London terrorist attacks that killed 52 people.

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33 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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35 h. ago King Charles issues emotional statement as he leads nation in remembering 7/7 horror

On July 7 2005, 52 people were killed during a series of coordinated terror attacks in London. To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the tragedy, King Charles has recalled the "enduring grief" and "extraordinary courage" of those affected

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40 h. ago Starmer, Cooper and King Charles mark 20th anniversary of 7/7 attacks

PM says ‘those who tried to divide us failed’ while monarch says victims and stories of courage should be rememberedKeir Starmer, King Charles and the home secretary, Yvette Cooper, have marked the 20th anniversary of the 7 July attacks in London in which Islamist suicide bombers killed 52 people and injured more than 770.The prime minister said: “Today the whole country will unite to remember the lives lost in the 7/7 attacks, and all those whose lives were changed for ever. We honour the courage shown that day – the bravery of the emergency services, the strength of survivors and the unity of Londoners in the face of terror. Continue reading...

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63 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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6 d. ago Kill the bill: Who are the five London Labour MPs who tried to block Keir Starmer's welfare reforms?

In total, 44 Labour MPs voted for an amendment to scrap the controversial legislation

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6 d. ago London girl, 7, killed by tree was the light in our lives, say family

Leonna Ruka’s family said they have been left with ‘broken hearts and unimaginable pain’ following her death

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7 d. ago London family pay tribute to 'precious' girl, 7, killed when tree collapsed in Essex

The family of a seven-year-old girl from east London have said she will “live forever in our hearts” after she was killed when a tree collapsed in a park in Southend, Essex.

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7 d. ago Attack on London: Hunting the 7/7 Bombers review – finally, Netflix makes a great, serious documentary

Twenty years on, this heart-racing four-part series reconstructs the terror attacks and the vast investigation that followed, without losing sight of the survivors. The detail about the bathtub is astonishingNetflix is not always known for its restraint in the documentary genre, but with its outstanding recent film Grenfell: Uncovered, and now Attack on London: Hunting the 7/7 Bombers, it appears to be finding a new maturity and seriousness in the field. There have been plenty of recent documentaries on the subject of the attacks and the sprawling investigation that followed – no surprise, given that it is the 20th anniversary this week – but there is still real depth to be found here.Over four parts, this thorough series unravels the initial attacks on the London transport system, which killed 52 people and injured more than 700, then follows that febrile month into the failed bombings of 21 July, and then the police shooting of the innocent Jean Charles de Menezes, a day later. Th...

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8 d. ago Teenagers jailed over brutal ‘turf war’ killing in east London

Abdul Jalloh, 23, knifed in neck as he sat behind wheel of his car

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9 d. ago Metropolitan Police will not charge Kneecap over 'kill your local MP' comments at London gig

Counter-terrorism officers from Scotland Yard investigated the footage from a gig at Camden’s Electric Ballroom in November 2023

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9 d. ago Girl, 7, killed by falling tree in Essex park was ‘visiting with family from London’

A girl remains in critical condition in hospital with serious injuries

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9 d. ago Parents tell of heartbreak after girl, 9, killed by drugged bus driver in south London

Nevgül and Bora Bicakci revealed their grief is still ‘immense’ following the death of daughter Ada in Bexleyheath

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9 d. ago Southend tree tragedy: Girl, seven, killed in accident was 'visiting with family from London' as another child fights for their life in hospital

A seven-year-old girl who was killed in an accident in an Essex park is believed to have been 'visiting with family from London '.

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1 week ago Girl, 7, killed by tree in busy park was 'visiting from London with family'

Girl, 7, killed by tree in busy park was 'visiting from London with family' - as witnesses will 'never forget screams'  The Sun

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1 week ago London Man Who Killed a Boy With a Samurai Sword Receives Life Sentence

London Man Who Killed a Boy With a Samurai Sword Receives Life Sentence  The New York Times

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1 week ago Dad of teen killed by samurai sword beast relives moment he saw son's horrific wounds

The brave parents of schoolboy Daniel Anjorin paid tribute to their beloved young son after his depraved killer was jailed for life at the Old Bailey in London today

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1 week ago Man gets life in prison for killing a London schoolboy, injuring five others with a samurai sword

Man gets life in prison for killing a London schoolboy, injuring five others with a samurai sword  Los Angeles Times

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