60 m. ago Sabrina Ghayour’s recipes for lamb koftas with smoky aubergine salad

Popular across the eastern Mediterranean and Middle East, koftas are easy crowdpleasers, especially with a spicy, smoky salad on the sideGreat food doesn’t need to be complicated. These recipes are wonderful on their own, but even better with some flatbread on the side. Charred aubergine is such a classic way to cook this vegetable, and popular in so many countries across the eastern Mediterranean, Middle East and south-east Asia. The cooked flesh cooks beautifully and holds a wonderful smokiness that really imparts itself into the dip, adding extra depth. Koftas, meanwhile, are always crowd-pleasing for kids and adults alike, and the harissa yoghurt and burnt orange really complement the spice. Both are perfect as a main meal or as part of a bigger feast for sharing. Continue reading...

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14 h. ago New Wetherspoons pub opening in south east London delayed AGAIN

New Wetherspoons pub opening in south east London delayed AGAIN  News Shopper

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20 h. ago Revealed: UK roads expected to be most congested over the August Bank Holiday weekend

The South East and South West are expected to have some of the worst congestion

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23 h. ago London travel news LIVE: Heathrow travel delays due to signal failure and track repairs

Live updates on London’s latest travel news across Tube, railways and roads

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30 h. ago Drivers planning bank holiday getaways urged to set off early to avoid jams

The South East and South West are expected to have some of the worst congestion.

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39 h. ago Man seriously injured after tractor falls onto motorway from bridge

Kent Police said it was called to reports of a two-vehicle collision on the A227 overbridge, near Wrotham, shortly after 11.15am on Monday.

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50 h. ago The Real Housewives of London review – one of them dresses up in ruffs like a Poundshop Elizabeth I

After a 20-year wait, the UK capital gets an edition of the US reality franchise – and the results are as hellish as you might expect. It was worth the waitIt’s taken nearly 20 years for the American reality franchise to wind its way across the Atlantic to the capital. In the meantime, there were pretenders and near-misses – Ladies of London, Real Housewives of Cheshire – but now, finally, west London’s ex-model community has a viable retirement plan.The delay seems all the more inexplicable, when you consider how to the manner born – if not to the manor born – these ladies are. Take Amanda, who lives in Belgravia, drives a Bentley convertible, runs an underperforming luxury beauty brand and is in a co-dependent relationship with her poodle-cum-stylist, Monty. Amanda has it all – clearly – and in the first episode’s first five minutes, she cements her status as RHOL’s Queen Bee by saying: “I’m actually a really private person.” Direct to camera. On a reality TV show. With a straight...

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62 h. ago Hurricane Erin weakens to category 3 as storm lashes Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands

First Atlantic hurricane of 2025 diminishes but tropical storm warnings issued for Turks and CaicosHurricane Erin was downgraded to a category 3 hurricane early Sunday as its outer bands continued to lash the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico with heavy rains and tropical-storm force winds.While Erin’s maximum winds diminished, the storm’s overall size grew and forecasters issued tropical storm warnings for the Turks and Caicos Islands and a watch for the south-east Bahamas. Continue reading...

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65 h. ago London travel news: Serious crash blocks M23 causing severe delays for London commuters

The incident took place on Sunday morning near Merstham and will affect Croydon-bound travellers

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67 h. ago Wetherspoons boss sacked after 'pressing wrong button' but has last laugh

Peter Castagna-Davies had worked at JD Wetherspoon for 22 years but was unfairly dismissed from his role after authorising a 50% discount on food for a kitchen worker

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3 d. ago Wetherspoon manager sacked after giving discount on pub's halloumi fries

Wetherspoons manager Peter Castagna-Davies was fired from the Pontlottyn pub in Abertillery, South Wales, after he put the items through the till for kitchen worker Noah Gardiner

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3 d. ago Wetherspoon's sacked pub manager after 22 years for giving colleague discount on halloumi fries

The fired employee took the pub chain to court

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4 d. ago Wetherspoon manager sacked for giving discount on halloumi fries

The fired employee took Wetherspoon to court - and the judge has ruled against the pub chain

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4 d. ago News | London and South East industrial looking for better take

News | London and South East industrial looking for better take-up in second half of year  CoStar

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4 d. ago South Korean president urges Japan to confront its colonial history in Liberation Day address

President Lee Jae Myung called on Tokyo to face its history in his Liberation Day address

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4 d. ago Heatwave causes surge in vehicle breakdowns because of hot tyres

The RAC said it received 10% more callouts between Monday and Thursday compared with the same period last week.

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4 d. ago London travel news LIVE: Signalling fault causing delays on Bakerloo, Lioness and Overground trains

Live updates on London’s latest travel news across Tube, rail and road services

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5 d. ago ‘What about our lives?’: emotions run high in frontline Ukrainian city over ceding land to Russia

Trump’s talk of ‘land swaps’ as a simple transaction belies grim reality of what it would mean for people in Zaporizhzhia The city of Zaporizhzhia, an industrial hub in south-east Ukraine, is as good a place as any to grasp the stakes of freezing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine along its current frontlines, or of implementing a “land swap for peace” deal as envisioned by Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump.Since Russian troops began rolling into Ukraine in February 2022, Zaporizhzhia, with its broad avenues and Stalin-era apartment blocks, has been a 30-minute drive from the frontline. It has been under near-constant attack from missiles and drones. On Sunday, a Russian guided air bomb hit a bus station, wounding 24 people – just another day of suffering in a city that has known many of them. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Thunderstorm warnings issued for parts of the country amid ongoing heatwave

Yellow thunderstorm warnings for parts of Scotland and Northern Ireland are in place until 10pm on Thursday.

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6 d. ago Thunderstorms and 30C heat forecast for London as fourth heatwave of the summer continues

Heat health alerts, in place for much of the last week, have also been extended into next week

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