3 h. ago Britain's latest crimewave hits the rich and famous: How brazen thieves prowl London's most exclusive streets targeting high

Recent footage has shown a hooded figure breaking into a Mercedes-Benz parked near Harrods and making away with bags of designer goods, like Louis Vuitton, in broad daylight.

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4 h. ago How brazen thieves operating in London's wealthiest neighbourhoods are breaking into high

Recent footage has shown a hooded figure breaking into a Mercedes-Benz parked near Harrods and making away with bags of designer goods, like Louis Vuitton, in broad daylight.

Culture

4 h. ago Britain's latest crimewave hits the rich and famous: How brazen thieves prowl London's most exclusive streets

Britain's latest crimewave hits the rich and famous: How brazen thieves prowl London's most exclusive streets  Daily Mail

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4 d. ago Government agency to operate rights center at London Book Fair

Government agency to operate rights center at London Book Fair  The Korea Herald

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5 d. ago Abuse by Guildhall tutor in 1980s left me in despair, says opera singer

Idit Arad calls for better protection for music students as London college admits failing in its duty of care to herIt should have been the start of a great career in classical music for Idit Arad. Everything was lining up for the talented 18-year-old opera singer. She had arrived in London from Israel in 1987, the proud winner of a sought-after scholarship to train at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. But instead of building the foundations of a successful future, she was singled out by a tutor 20 years her senior for a long period of obsessive attention and abuse.Paul Roberts pursued her from their first lesson, Arad says, inviting her for coffee and then for a dinner to discuss her talent, before sending a stream of explicit letters, calling her a “witch” and urging her into sexual intimacy. Senior leadership, it is now admitted, knew of their involvement and yet failed to discipline Roberts. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago London Symphony Orchestra conductor Antonio Pappano goes underground — he takes the Tube to work

Conductor Antonio Pappano is leading the orchestra on a 13-concert U.S. tour to California, Florida and New York that ends this week with its first Carnegie Hall concerts since 2005

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1 week ago NHS surgeons who separated conjoined twins 40 years ago emotionally meet one surviving twin

Conjoined twins Holly and Carly had to be surgically separated in the UK in a pioneering operation at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital after being born face to face

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1 week ago Surgeons who separated conjoined twins 40 years ago reunite with patient

A nine-hour operation at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London in 1985 separated twin girls.

Science

2 w. ago Moment brazen thieves steal £4.75m gold toilet from Blenheim Palace caught on CCTV

Police have released the footage of the moment a hooded squad of criminals stole and sped off with a golden toilet pinched in an early hours of the morning in Blenheim Palace

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2 w. ago Ruthless people smuggling gang who taxied small boat migrants around the UK to work in cannabis farms are jailed

Mai Van Nguyen, 35, operated a series of illegal grows across the Midlands, London and the north of England.

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2 w. ago George and Nora London Foundation Competition Announces 2025 Winners

George and Nora London Foundation Competition Announces 2025 Winners  OperaWire

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2 w. ago London's Regent's Park is plagued by early morning hammer attacks on cyclists, intentional wheel punctures and masked thieves

The muggers have been operating in Regent's Park, London, where more than 30 cycling clubs meet between 5.45am-7am every morning before the area opens to cars.

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2 w. ago Opera stars of the future shine brightly in London Competition Finals

Opera stars of the future shine brightly in London Competition Finals  New York Classical Review

Sport

3 w. ago St Pancras and Channel tunnel plan rail routes to Germany and Switzerland

Partnership comes as London station looks at ways to almost triple passenger numbersSt Pancras railway station in London and the Channel tunnel operator have agreed to work together to open up more trains from Britain to France, and routes to Germany and Switzerland.The agreement is the latest sign of growing momentum for new passenger rail links from England across the Channel, after the UK’s only international station announced plans to triple the number of people who can travel through every hour. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago London transport workers to stage fresh strikes over 'second

Hundreds of members of Unite at Transport for London's compliance, policing, operations and security directorate will walk out for three days from February 20

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3 w. ago Rise of greedy Greggs shoplifters filling their bags: How Britain's most popular bakery is besieged by brazen thieves pilfering goods in front of shocked customers

From Nottingham to London, no Greggs branch is safe from shoplifters brazenly ransacking shelves - shamelessly walking out of stores with goods they haven't paid for.

Economics

3 w. ago Stansted Express: Londoners and tourists face travel misery with five weeks of disruption ahead

There will be no direct Stansted Express services operating between London and the airport

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3 w. ago Mary, Queen of Scots at London Coliseum review: a long overdue standing ovation

Thea Musgrave’s powerful and imaginatively scored opera finally gets its London staging

Politics

3 w. ago Teenage thieves mount brazen Valentines Day raid on Aldi before barging past security guards with a haul of FLOWERS

The teenagers seemed not to care that they were being filmed as they casually strode out of Aldi in Seven Kings, Ilford, east London, clutching their unlikely haul.

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3 w. ago Shop 'robbed every week' and targeted in 'axe attack' as brazen thieves say 'it's our right'

EXCLUSIVE: Incidents of shoplifting are on the rise amid concerns thieves are acting boldly as they have no fear for the consequences, with store operators telling of hellish axe attacks and vile abuse

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