6 d. ago Rise of 'Lime bike leg': That's the epidemic of shattered limbs and mangled knees caused by the 86lb bikes. Now doctors and victims reveal the danger and say: 'I'm NEVER going on one of those again'

On a warm Saturday afternoon in west London, Theo thought he had found the perfect shortcut home to avoid waiting for the bus from Paddington station.

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8 d. ago If Britain is broken, what is to blame – big money and big tech, or graffiti on your train? | Tom Whyman

A new cadre of agit-prop campaigners has been cleaning the London underground, but there is more to the political stunt than meets the eyeBritain, let’s face it, is crap. Crap, I mean, in quite a specific sense: we might not be teetering on the brink of civilisational destruction, as the post-Brexit right can often seem to think. But there nonetheless remains a vast, ambient sense of rubbishness. Everything is expensive but nothing works. Our streets are full of potholes; our houses are full of mould. All the shops are shut, except for a Tesco Express, where there are security tags on the eggs. It takes about a million years to build a railway line.Up to now, the response to Britain’s enshittification has, by and large, seemed remarkably fatalistic: Keir Starmer spent the first year in government repeatedly insisting that there just wasn’t any money, and so really nothing could be done. Thank God then, one might think, for Looking for Growth, a new campaign group led by young (well,...

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1 week ago Essex farm at heart of car smuggling ring linked to London crime epidemic

Baldwins Farm, in Essex, has been associated with organised crime where stolen cars have ended up with arrests taking place where criminals have ended up in prison for drug and firearm charges.

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1 week ago Man wrongfully deported to El Salvador must be returned to US, court rules

Court orders White House return Jordin Melgar-Salmeron, who was deported less than 30 minutes after his removal was barredAn appeals court has ordered the Trump administration to return a man wrongfully deported to El Salvador to the US and to explain how it is complying in a ruling apparently designed to break a pattern of apparent government defiance of judicial orders.The US court of appeals for the second circuit in New York also required the government to provide a declaration of the current whereabouts and custodial status of Jordin Melgar-Salmeron, who was deported on 7 May less than half an hour after the court had expressly barred his removal. Continue reading...

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1 week ago The Essex farm at the centre of an international car smuggling ring: How remote spot by the M25 is linked to London's car crime epidemic.. and its dark past as a hotbed for organised crime

Like many farms, Baldwins in south Essex is reached by winding lanes and surrounded by green fields.

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1 week ago Selina Scott daylight robbery shows London has become a crime

Ex-New Scotland Yard detective Peter Bleksley condemned the 'epidemic of crime' in London after the robbery and assault of veteran broadcaster Selina Scott by an organised gang in broad daylight.

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2 w. ago Tube graffiti epidemic 'fuelled by prizes for vandalising key targets' as scale of clean

33,000 pieces of graffiti removed by cleaners in last two months – including 5,500 ‘repeat hits’

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2 w. ago Limescale will wipe away from shower screens if item is applied for 10 minutes

It can be frustrating to clean shower screens only to see that the glass is still cloudy and dirty, but there is an easy way to remove stubborn stains in under 10 minutes

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3 w. ago 'Does this viral tan remover work in just 60 seconds? I put it to the test to find out for myself'

Beauty buffs online have been hailing this tan remover as a miracle worker as it promises to strip old and faded tan in just one minute, so Shopping Writer Meghan put it to the test to find out if it really works

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3 w. ago ‘London is in decline’: How the guerrilla Tube graffiti cleaners think they can save the city

Looking for Growth are the people you’ve seen cleaning your Tube carriages. We spoke to the budding changemakers about their big plans for London

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3 w. ago Tube graffiti epidemic: TfL reveals extraordinary scale of vandalism

Tube graffiti epidemic: TfL reveals extraordinary scale of vandalism  London Evening Standard

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3 w. ago Tube graffiti epidemic: 23,000 paint 'tags' removed from London Underground trains in two months

14,500 pieces of graffiti on Central line and 8,400 on Bakerloo line

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3 w. ago Tube graffiti epidemic: 23,000 'tags' removed from London Underground trains in two months

14,500 pieces of graffiti removed from Central line and 8,400 from Bakerloo line

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3 w. ago Tube graffiti removed every 11 minutes, say TfL, as full scale of epidemic on London Underground revealed

Mayor Sadiq Khan wary of ‘rewarding bad behaviour’ by discussing vandalism

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3 w. ago 'Tube cleaned every 11 minutes': TfL boss reveals full extent of graffiti epidemic on London Underground

Mayor Sadiq Khan wary of ‘rewarding bad behaviour’ by discussing vandalism

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3 w. ago Secrets of underground reptile colonies revealed after 250 million years

The findings confirm that communal living among land-living reptiles happened further back in time than we thought

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3 w. ago Angry friends removing graffiti from Bakerloo line Tube trains ‘doing what Sadiq Khan can’t’

Group members say they are fighting against London’s ‘broader decline’

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3 w. ago The common household item that removes algae from fences in just 30 minutes

Algae can be unsightly and can damage the wood but there's an easy way to remove it

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