35 h. ago Dagenham fire: Black smoke seen across London after scrap metal and cars catch fire at industrial estate

Ten fire engines and around 70 firefighters are attending a fire at the site on Beamway in Dagenham

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3 d. ago David Lammy says he regrets Trump has embraced protectionism, something not seen in US ‘for nearly a century’ – UK politics live

David Lammy, foreign secretary, says UK is ‘a nation that believes in open trade’ and says government is negotiating with US over economic agreementAn anti-abortion campaigner at the centre of a free speech controversy involving the US government has been found guilty of breaching a “buffer zone” outside a Bournemouth abortion clinic, PA Media reports. PA says:Livia Tossici-Bolt was convicted at Poole magistrates’ court of two charges of breaching the Public Spaces Protection Order on two days in March 2023.The case involved the 64-year-old from Bournemouth holding a sign saying “Here to talk, if you want”.But I think our approach should be to slightly stand back and think, what does Britain want, and can it get from the rest of the world, and what can we contribute?And in that regard, it’s important to realise that the rest of the G7, except the US, collectively are the same size as the United States. And I would have thought a very sensible thing to be doing is having a serious co...

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3 d. ago David Lammy says Trump has taken US economic policy back 100 years with ‘return to protectionism’ – UK politics live

David Lammy, foreign secretary, says UK is ‘a nation that believes in open trade’ and says government is negotiating with US over economic agreementThe official plan to increase access to NHS dental services in England has been a “complete failure”, and some of the government’s initiatives have worsened the crisis, a damning report warns, Andrew Gregory reports.David Lammy, the foreign secretary, is at the Nato HQ in Brussels this morning, where Nato foreign ministers are meeting. Speaking to the media, he said President Trump was taking US economic policy back almost a century by embracing protectionism. He said:The United Kingdom, like France, is a great maritime nation.We are a nation that believes in open trade, and I regret the return to protectionism in the United States, something that we’ve not seen for nearly a century. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Trump claims Starmer is ‘very happy’ about tariffs imposed on Britain

UK foreign secretary regrets ‘return to protectionism’ and says Britons will be concerned about impact on financesBusiness live – latest updatesDonald Trump has claimed that the UK is “very happy” with tariffs imposed on the country as part of his shock upending of global trade, but the British foreign secretary, David Lammy, said he regretted the “return to protectionism”.Wielding a chart in the White House Rose Garden, the US president revealed on Wednesday that the UK would be hit with 10% so-called “reciprocal” tariffs as part of a sweeping drive on all countries. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Stock markets plummet after Trump’s tariffs with Dow losing 1,500 points and NASDAQ targeting record

‘This is the reordering of fair trade,’ Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said before the stock market tanked at open

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4 d. ago UK could retaliate to Trump’s tariffs if no US trade deal is secured, business secretary says

The government has drawn up a 417-page list of products that could be slapped with import taxes in retaliation against Donald Trump’s tariffs on British goods

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4 d. ago Britain could retaliate to Trump’s tariffs if no US trade deal is secured, business secretary says

Jonathan Reynolds said ministers were drawing up a list of US products they could target in any fight back

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5 d. ago No black, no grey, no denim: What it's like to dress The White Lotus season three

Costume designer Alex Bovaird talks best dressed characters, tricks of the trade and the little British secret keeping The White Lotus afloat

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5 d. ago The British secret behind the White Lotus fashion (and how to get the looks)

Costume designer Alex Bovaird talks best dressed characters, tricks of the trade and the little British secret keeping The White Lotus afloat

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5 d. ago Accenture Song Doubles Down on Droga5 and Appoints New Leadership in London

Accenture Song Doubles Down on Droga5 and Appoints New Leadership in London  Little Black Book | LBBOnline

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8 d. ago London's Black Cabs are iconic. But their future is in jeopardy

London's Black Cabs are iconic. But their future is in jeopardy  The Big Issue

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1 week ago Harry Styles looks completely different as cabbie reveals she didn't recognise him

A London cab driver has revealed she had no idea that she was transporting Harry Styles across the capital due to his new look leaving him unrecognisable

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1 week ago Smiling King Charles makes public appearance after hospital stay

Sources say side-effects from cancer treatment were ‘minor bump’ in the road, and Italy trip expected to go aheadKing Charles smiled and waved at well-wishers as he was seen in public for the first time since it was revealed he had been in hospital over side-effects from his cancer treatment.Charles, 76, left Clarence House in London on Friday morning in a black Audi to travel to his Highgrove estate in Gloucestershire, it is understood. Continue reading...

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1 week ago King Charles in 'good spirits' after hospital visit for cancer treatment side effects

Charles, 76, smiled and waved at well-wishers as he left Clarence House in London in a black Audi.

Science

1 week ago Trade Secretary refuses to rule out cutting digital tax as US tariffs loom

The Liberal Democrats have urged the Government not to cut or scrap the digital services tax to ‘appease’ Donald Trump.

Economics

1 week ago 'The Knowledge' to be made easier in bid to safeguard London's beleaguered black taxi trade

Fewer than 15,000 licensed taxis left in the capital - down a third in a decade

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1 week ago Here Is a Gale Warning review – five tumultuous decades of catastrophic art

Kettle’s Yard, CambridgeA flag hoisted in 1971 looms over a show that references to George Floyd, Inuit women and spear-bearing Amazons – to a droll soundtrack from Xena: Warrior Princess and Buffy the Vampire Slayer One gusty afternoon in 1971, the artist Rose Finn-Kelcey hoisted a flag above Alexandra Palace in London. Silver lamé letters on a black background, spelling Here Is a Gale Warning, sounded the alarm for an unspecified emergency. A half century later, Finn-Kelcey’s act, a video of which flickers above one of the two main galleries at Kettle’s Yard and gives this exhibition its title, no longer seems so enigmatic. From climate change to economic precarity to rising fascism, we are living in an age of concurrent catastrophes. The future is here, the storm already blowing.Artists have always responded to the exigencies of their times, but these days it’s museums that are uniquely under pressure. Public campaigns to make institutions more diverse and accessible have mounted...

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1 week ago Gwendoline Christie looks effortlessly chic as she strolls around London in a stylish all

Gwendoline Christie looks effortlessly chic as she strolls around London in a stylish all-black look and knee-  Daily Mail

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2 w. ago Ravers, Rastas and rugby league stars: why the story of Black British culture is about more than just London

Ravers, Rastas and rugby league stars: why the story of Black British culture is about more than just London  The Guardian

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2 w. ago Inside Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender's super stylish house in the Black Bag film

The production design behind the super slick look of the new spy thriller

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