17 h. ago Tube passenger openly smokes crack cocaine on London Underground

Tube passenger openly smokes crack cocaine on London Underground  Metro.co.uk

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17 h. ago London Underground stations and Tube lines with highest crime levels revealed

The issue of crime on the Tube has been thrust back into the spotlight after a man was pictured smoking crack cocaine in front of passengers

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18 h. ago The crack cocaine epidemic on London's tube: As ministers condemn open drug use, scores more images emerge amid soaring crime levels under Sadiq Khan

The Tube's crime epidemic was laid bare this week after photos emerged of a 'dirty, scuffy-looking' male lighting a metal pipe on a carriage.

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19 h. ago The crack cocaine epidemic on London's tube: As ministers condemn open drug use, scores more images emerge amid soaring crime levels under Sadiq Khan drug police turn a blind eye

The Tube's crime epidemic was laid bare this week after photos emerged of a 'dirty, scuffy-looking' male lighting a metal pipe on a carriage.

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20 h. ago Khan urged to take action on open use of crack cocaine on London Underground

Khan urged to take action on open use of crack cocaine on London Underground  The Telegraph

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20 h. ago Khan urged to take action over crack cocaine users on London Underground

Khan urged to take action over crack cocaine users on London Underground  The Telegraph

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20 h. ago London travel news LIVE: Silvertown Tunnel opens as Underground hit with delays

The minor delays on the Central, District and Metropolitan lines as well as the part closure on the Tram line may interrupt some journeys

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21 h. ago Which London Underground and overground stations and lines are closed this weekend?

The Elizabeth line is set to experience alterations

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24 h. ago London travel news LIVE: Minor delays and suspension on Underground, Overground and Tram

The minor delays on the Central, District and Metropolitan lines as well as the part closure on the Tram and Windrush line may interrupt some journeys

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47 h. ago Fatal error: 20 years on, the Met still has questions to answer about the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes. A new drama investigates the tragedy

The award-winning producer and screenwriter of Philomena’s new show, Suspect, is about the shooting of an innocent young Brazilian electrician on the London Underground in the wake of the 7/7 bombings. Here he asks why the force still can’t admit that it acted incompetently‘Everybody’s human. Mistakes can be made But you are really not prepared to say that any mistake [was made] here, are you?”Michael Mansfield QC put this question to Cressida Dick – then deputy assistant commissioner at the Metropolitan police – at the inquest into the death of Jean Charles de Menezes, a young man who, 20 years ago this summer, was shot dead at Stockwell station in south London by Met firearms officers. The inquest took place in 2008, three years after his shooting on the morning of 22 July 2005, which was 15 days after the 7/7 bombings in London and one day after copycat bombers had tried and failed to detonate more explosives on the transport system and then fled. De Menezes was a 27-year-old Bra...

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50 h. ago The most embarrassing things you should never do on the London Underground

The most embarrassing things you should never do on the London Underground  Yahoo News UK

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60 h. ago The 4 beautiful posters popping up at London Underground stations

The 4 beautiful posters popping up at London Underground stations - when exactly you'll see them  Yahoo News UK

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65 h. ago Kae Tempest review – a brave, intimate set where the personal is political

Village Underground, LondonThe laser-focused spoken-word performer returns to the musical stage with new tracks focusing on their identity, but wider concerns are never far away“This has been a performance piece about how technology is going to be the death of us all,” jokes rapper, poet, author and playwright Kae Tempest as a keyboard player and a technician wrestle with malfunctioning equipment. We’re just two tracks in; Tempest assures us that if the electronics are not back up soon, they’ll do the whole show a cappella.They could, too. The teenage Tempest cut their teeth battle-rapping in south London, turning to slam poetry when more direct avenues into hip-hop refused to open easily to a young, blond slip of a thing. You suspect they have never wasted the opportunity when handed a mic. Given Tempest’s extended output over more than a decade of albums, works of fiction, poems, plays and nonfiction, with prizes and accolades for many of them – you can’t imagine them ever being a...

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3 d. ago Israeli influencer speaks up for Gaza hostages on London Underground

Israeli influencer speaks up for Gaza hostages on London Underground  New York Post

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3 d. ago A step back in time: What London Underground passengers looked like in the Seventies and Eighties

Bob Mazzer spent years roving the Tube network photographing whoever caught his eye

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3 d. ago London travel news LIVE: Minor delays on London Underground and busy Limehouse road closed after major crash

The minor delays on the Piccadilly and Bakerloo lines as well as the closing of Commercial Road in Limehouse may interrupt some journeys

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4 d. ago London travel news LIVE: Disruption on the Great Northern line between London and Stevenage

The Great Northern line is experiencing problems but there is a good service on all London Underground lines

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5 d. ago Yoseph Haddad speaks up for Gaza hostages on London Underground

Yoseph Haddad speaks up for Gaza hostages on London Underground  JNS.org

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6 d. ago London travel news LIVE: Good service on all London Underground lines

The Elizabeth line was facing severe delays on the early hours of Tuesday but the issue has now been resolved

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1 week ago London Underground’s old Lost Property Office could become a bar or restaurant

London Underground’s old Lost Property Office could become a bar or restaurant  ianVisits

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