9 h. ago Firefighters tackle wildfires visible for miles across Welsh countryside

One of the biggest fires was at Mynydd Gelliwastad Mountain, Clydach.

Events

35 h. ago It’s official: Britain’s ‘poshest’ town is just one hour from London

It’s official: Britain’s ‘poshest’ town is just one hour from London  Time Out London

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42 h. ago Basildon Council buys up town centre flats to prevent influx of London tenants

Basildon Council buys up town centre flats to prevent influx of London tenants  Southend Echo

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67 h. ago We're being swallowed by London: The town being forced to pay more

We're being swallowed by London: The town being forced to pay more  MSN

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68 h. ago We're being swallowed by London: The town being forced to pay more to live... and there's nothing they can do about it

Residents of a once thriving enclave are outraged by proposals to merge Slough into the capital - despite claims it could yet revive the place dubbed Britain's 'ugliest' and 'most miserable' town.

Politics

68 h. ago We're being swallowed by London: The town being forced to pay more to live... and there's nothing they can do

We're being swallowed by London: The town being forced to pay more to live... and there's nothing they can do  Daily Mail

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2 d. ago Banksy interviews Tox in the Big Issue and explains use of Tox’s tag in his work

The special edition of the Big Issue will be taken over by graffiti artist 10Foot.

Economics

3 d. ago Kingston fire: 150 firefighters tackle blaze in south London town centre

Residents have been urged to keep windows closed as blaze breaks out in disused Kingston building

Events

3 d. ago London leaver: 'having nature on the doorstep was good for my long Covid recovery'

Just as the rest of us was emerging back into the world following the pandemic, Rachael Heath-Porsz found herself still housebound thanks to the after-effects of Covid-19.

Politics

4 d. ago Nova Scotia House by Charlie Porter review – radical visions of gay 90s London

Memories of love and heartbreak during the Aids epidemic are brought vividly to life in this exhilarating, risk-taking debutHalfway through his debut novel, Charlie Porter has a character ask the question that still haunts generations of British gay men: “What am I to do with this anger?” The book is Porter’s answer. The starting point is simple. Johnny is 19, and on the run from a small-town childhood; arriving in London, he falls in love with Jerry, who is 45 and HIV positive. Their affair coincides exactly with the last four years in which the virus was untreatable; Jerry dies of an Aids-related illness in the summer of 1995, just months before effective combination therapies began to be prescribed.Twenty-six years later, Johnny is still living in Jerry’s flat. This is in the Nova Scotia House of the title, an oasis of public housing in one of the last pockets of unredeveloped land in London’s East End. Inevitably, a tower of flats is now being built right nex...

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8 d. ago Firefighters tackle major warehouse blaze near city as residents told to shut windows

About 45 firefighters tackled the incident at the height of the blaze

Events

8 d. ago Musselburgh fire: Firefighters tackle major warehouse blaze near city as residents told to shut windows

About 45 firefighters tackled the incident at the height of the blaze

Events

1 week ago 'I went to a south east London fancy town that immerses you in its wild adventure'

'I went to a south east London fancy town that immerses you in its wild adventure'  News Shopper

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1 week ago Firefighters descend on river to tackle jet ski blaze near country park

They used buckets of water from the River Tame to put out the fire

Events

1 week ago UK's 'Ratland' town where residents 'ashamed' to live alongside 'dirty' vermin

Olivia Virag, 55, is 'ashamed' to call the East London town her home due to the mounds of litter left on the street - which has attracted rats that 'scurry around daily'

Politics

2 w. ago Terrifying fire erupts outside UK national stadium as smoke billows through city

Residents of a sheltered accommodation unit in Cardiff, South Wales, were evacuated after the blaze near the Principality Stadium, which hosts international rugby union matches

Events

2 w. ago Carolina wildfires latest: ‘Fire danger’ warning issued to North and South Carolina as largest blaze swells to 2,000 acres

Hundreds of firefighters are battling the Carolina Forest fire that has engulfed more than 2,000 near South Carolina’s Myrtle Beach

Events

2 w. ago T&C Culture Watch: A Blockbuster Show Opens at London’s National Gallery

T&C Culture Watch: A Blockbuster Show Opens at London’s National Gallery  Town & Country

Culture

2 w. ago Teenager fighting for life after stabbing in Canning Town as six people are arrested

Officers found a 17-year-old boy with stab injuries at a street close to Canning Town station

Events

2 w. ago 'I quit London for beautiful seaside town 71 miles away and it’s changed my life'

'I quit London for beautiful seaside town 71 miles away and it’s changed my life'  Express

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