6 d. ago My VE Day was nothing like our image of it today. I hope we can honour what it really meant | Sheila Hancock

Our street party tea was a muted celebration, full of uncertainty. Then, as now, we faced a long struggle towards a better world It is May 2025, it is 4am, and I am sitting up in bed, sleepless, looking out at a huge moon illuminating the still world.Eighty-five years ago, in 1940, a silently weeping seven-year-old lay on a cracked leatherette sofa in urine-soaked pyjamas, looking through an alien window, praying that that same moon would protect my mum and dad from the killer bombs falling in London. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Jury shown video of ‘frenzied stabbing’ in suitcase murder trial

Yostin Andres Mosquera is accused of killing Albert Alfonso and Paul Longworth in London.

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8 d. ago Jury watch video of ‘frenzied stabbing’ in suitcase murder trial

Yostin Andres Mosquera is accused of killing Albert Alfonso and Paul Longworth in London.

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8 d. ago London man pleads guilty to killing wife with axe in front of kids

London man pleads guilty to killing wife with axe in front of kids  Windsor Star

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8 d. ago Navy sailor sentenced to prison for killing wife, setting New London home on fire

Navy sailor sentenced to prison for killing wife, setting New London home on fire  NBC Connecticut

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9 d. ago Man killed couple then froze remains in west London, court hears

Man killed couple then froze remains in west London, court hears  BBC

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9 d. ago Man ‘murdered couple before freezing some remains and bringing rest to bridge’

Yostin Andres Mosquera is accused of killing Albert Alfonso and Paul Longworth in London.

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1 week ago Man accused of two suitcase murders admits manslaughter of one victim

Yostin Andres Mosquera is accused of killing Albert Alfonso and Paul Longworth in London and dumping their remains near the Clifton Suspension Bridge.

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1 week ago Man accused of two suitcase murders admits manslaughter of one man

Yostin Andres Mosquera is accused of killing Albert Alfonso and Paul Longworth in London and dumping their remains near the Clifton Suspension Bridge.

Events

1 week ago Jean Charles De Menezes' mum says 'everyone needs to watch' Disney+ drama about son's tragic death

Jean Charles De Menezes was tragically and wrongly killed by police shortly after the London bombings 20 years ago.

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1 week ago Amazing Southport dads complete London marathon in memory of daughters killed in knife attack

David Stancombe ran in memory of seven-year-old Elsie Dot and Sergio Aguiar ran for nine-year-old Alice. After the race, the two dads emotionally embraced their wives

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1 week ago Fathers of two girls killed in Southport attack among London marathon finishers

More than 56,000 participants were expected on the 26.2-mile course, including celebrities and MPs, as temperatures in London hit 22.2C on Sunday.

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2 w. ago BBC Breakfast fans 'in tears' as Naga Munchetty and Charlie Stayt share heartbreaking news

BBC Breakfast hosts Naga Munchetty and Charlie Stayt shared the touching news that two parents of the children who were killed in the Southport attack last year will be running the London Marathon this weekend in their memory.

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2 w. ago ‘Girls will be watching over us’: Southport attack fathers to run London Marathon

David Stancombe and Sergio Aguiar are running to raise funds in memory of the three murdered girls

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2 w. ago Southport victim Bebe King's mum speaks out for first time with 'incredible' tribute

David Stancombe said he remembered watching the London Marathon with his daughter just months before she was killed in the Southport attack last year - now he will run it in her memory

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2 w. ago Doctor run over and killed in London hospital car park 'by delivery driver who didn't check blind spot'

Dr Anjum Afshan, 62, was walking to catch a bus after work when she was killed in ‘frankly tragic incident’, Old Bailey told

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2 w. ago Ukraine peace talks in London collapse as Russian drone attack kills nine

Ukraine peace talks in London collapse as Russian drone attack kills nine  France 24

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2 w. ago Jean Charles de Menezes’s mother says ‘everyone should watch’ TV drama about his killing

Disney+ series revisits killing of Brazilian man wrongly identified as a terrorist by Met police officers in 2005The mother of a man shot dead by police in a London Underground station after being mistaken for a terrorist has said “everyone should watch” a new dramatisation of her son’s killing.Jean Charles de Menezes was shot seven times by two police marksmen in Stockwell tube station on 22 July 2005. De Menezes was wrongly identified as one of the fugitives involved in a failed bombing two weeks after the 7/7 attack in London, which killed 52 people. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Family of student shot and stabbed to death in Peckham 10 years ago launch fresh appeal

Ola Raji, 21, was attacked and killed in Peckham, south London in 2015

Society

2 w. ago Family of student shot and stabbed on his way home 10 years ago launch fresh appeal

Ola Raji, 21, was attacked and killed in Peckham, south London in 2015

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