19 h. ago The three south London boroughs named among the capital's top 10

The three south London boroughs named among the capital's top 10  This Is Local London

Politics

67 h. ago South London primary school named one of the best in the capital

South London primary school named one of the best in the capital  This Is Local London

Politics

3 d. ago The 40 south London bus stops named among capital's ‘busiest’

The 40 south London bus stops named among capital's ‘busiest’  News Shopper

Politics

4 d. ago Knifed on school run & sons murdered in front of their MUMS – we live in hellhole town where dealers prey on kids

CHILDREN murdered on the school run, while drug dealers and thieves lurk around every corner - all in one hellhole town trapped in a stranglehold of crime. The Sun paid a visit this week to a community where residents are desperate to get out. Croydon, in South London, is among the boroughs ranked "most dangerous"...

Economics

6 d. ago Trump’s ballroom blitz sparks chorus of disgust: ‘The perfect symbol’

Obama once joked about what a gaudy Trump White House would like – the president seems bent on proving him rightWhen Barack Obama roasted Donald Trump at the 2011 White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, the icing on the cake was a cartoon illustration of what the White House might look like if Trump ever became US president.The name “Trump” was emblazoned across the top in giant capital letters, followed by “the White House” in lurid purple cursive, then “hotel • casino • golf course” and “presidential suite”. The parody imagined gold pillars, a giant crystal chandelier and two scantily clad women sitting at reception. Continue reading...

Politics

6 d. ago How does the Met Office name storms as Storm Benjamin causes havoc in London

Yellow weather warnings are in place as Storm Benjamin sweeps across the capital - but what do these storm names reveal?

Events

9 d. ago Tensions mount as Alassane Ouattara seeks fourth term in Ivory Coast vote

Protests have been banned and opposition figures sidelined as 83-year-old president ignores calls to step down“This is worth several more terms,” the Ivorian president, Alassane Ouattara, joked while opening a bridge named after him in the country’s commercial capital, Abidjan, in 2023.The appearance in recent years of several new bridges in west Africa’s second most populous city has been hailed by the president’s supporters as symbolic of an era of modernity and stable leadership under his watch. Continue reading...

Politics

1 week ago ‘My name is Manchester United’: the superfan who fought to change his identity

There are supporters and then there was the Bulgarian Marin Levidzhov, who died this week aged 62Ask any Manchester United fan of a certain age what 26 May 1999 means to them, and they will tell you the date has marked them for life. It was the night injury-time goals from Teddy Sheringham and Ole Gunnar Solskjær sealed United’s 2-1 comeback in the Champions League final against Bayern Munich at the Camp Nou. It was also the night the life of one United fan in Bulgaria, who has died this week at the age of 62, changed for ever.That supporter was born Marin Zdravkov Levidzhov in Svishtov, a town on the Danube with a population of 22,000. Growing up in communist Bulgaria adoring football, he dreamed of changing his name to Manchester United. To claim the name of a football club from the capitalist west, however, was mission impossible. Had Marin tried to do so before the fall of the regime, he would almost certainly have ended up in jail. Continue reading...

Sport

2 w. ago Revealed: London borough named graffiti capital of Britain as five of ten worst

Residents in one borough in the city filed more reports in three years than the likes of Manchester and Bristol

Politics

2 w. ago Why is the US House speaker refusing to seat an elected Democrat? | Moira Donegan

Adelita Grijalva won a landslide election for her Arizona seat. But Mike Johnson is defying the will of the votersThe people of Arizona’s seventh congressional district – a vast territory extending across the state’s south, along the Mexican border – have been denied representation in Congress for weeks. That’s because Mike Johnson, the Republican House speaker, has refused to swear in Adelita Grijalva, their representative-elect, who won a special election to fill the seat vacated by her father, the late Raúl Grijalva, in a landslide late last month. Grijalva, a Democrat, has been largely ignored by the speaker. Unlike sworn representatives, she has to go around the Capitol with an escort. There’s an office with her name on the door, but she hasn’t been allowed inside, and has worked instead out of a conference room on another floor.It is an unprecedented abuse of procedural power on the part of the speaker, one that has had the effect of silencing a political opponent and denying ...

Politics

4 w. ago The south London area named as the capital's most popular borough

The south London area named as the capital's most popular borough  Wandsworth Times

Politics