5 h. ago Woman held at knifepoint outside her south London flat 'repeatedly pleaded with council for help after being harassed by group of men'

EXCL: Gemma - not her real name - has reported incidents concerning her upstairs neighbour and his associates to the police and council, but bungling bosses in Lewisham have done nothing to help.

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29 h. ago Irish woman living in US for decades detained by immigration officials

Cliona Ward, who had returned from trip to Ireland, held over criminal record from almost 20 years agoAn Irish woman who has lived legally in the US for four decades has been detained by immigration officials for the last week because of a criminal record dating back almost 20 years.Cliona Ward, 54, was detained at San Francisco airport on 21 April after returning from Ireland to visit her sick father and is being held at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) facility in Tacoma, Washington. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Mick Jagger’s Former London Flat Lists for $7 Million—and It’s Every Bit as Iconic as the Rock Legend Himself

Mick Jagger’s Former London Flat Lists for $7 Million—and It’s Every Bit as Iconic as the Rock Legend Himself  Finance Monthly

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7 d. ago Woman, 45, stabbed to death at London flat named as man, 29, arrested on suspicion of murder

Woman, 45, stabbed to death at London flat named as man, 29, arrested on suspicion of murder  The Sun

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9 d. ago Huge fire at London flat building with 100 firefighters scrambled

Footage showed flames engulfing a fifth-floor and seventh-floor flat on Leman Street in Aldgate.

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9 d. ago Aldgate fire: Blaze rips through two homes in block of flats in east London

A fire at an east London flat quickly spread into the property above

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9 d. ago Aldgate fire: Huge blaze rips through block of London flats as 100 firefighters rush to scene

Fifteen teams of firefighters are battling a large blaze in a fifth floor flat in Aldgate, central London, which has also spread to the seventh floor

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1 week ago Private island off the coast of Northern Ireland for sale for less than the price of a London flat

Get away from it all by buying your own private island and working remotely – or commuting between the two – just a three-hour round-trip from London

Economics

1 week ago Netflix quarterly result beats Wall Street expectations despite Trump tariff’s pall

Streaming firm reported a $10.54bn revenue in first quarter, though analysts say consumers could reconsider spendingNetflix exceeded Wall Street expectations for quarterly results and offered a bullish revenue outlook on Thursday, signaling confidence amid the economic uncertainty surrounding Donald Trump’s erratic tariff plans.Netflix reported revenue of $10.54bn for the first quarter, edging past analysts’ estimates of $10.52bn, according to data compiled by the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG). Shares of the company were roughly flat in after-hours trading at $970.10. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Mick Jagger’s Former London Flat Hits the Market for $7 Million

Mick Jagger’s Former London Flat Hits the Market for $7 Million  Robb Report

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2 w. ago Jury orders rapper Soulja Boy to pay $4m to woman who accused him of sexual assault

Star was held liable for claims of sexual battery, assault and imprisonment by woman who said she was his assistantA jury has ordered rapper Soulja Boy to pay $4m to a woman who has accused him of sexual assault during their nearly two-year relationship.On Thursday, a jury in Santa Monica, California, found the 34-year-old rapper – whose real name is DeAndre Cortez Way – liable for a handful of claims including sexual battery, assault and imprisonment in a lawsuit brought by a woman who said she worked as his assistant. A representative for Way had previously called the case “nonsense”. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Police make further arrest following damage to Donald Trump’s golf course

Police say inquiries are ongoing after 21-year-old woman held in Liverpool

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2 w. ago Residents 'scream for help' in terrifying flat block blaze in London

The blaze, which engulfed the building, has left 11 people in hospital.

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2 w. ago Andrew Tate held gun to woman's face and said' do as I say', court told

Controversial social media influencer Andrew Tate is accused of holding a gun to a woman’s face before saying “you’re going to do as I say or there’ll be hell to pay”, according to court documents. Documents from the case, submitted to the UK’s High Court by four women who allege Tate used sexual violence against them, surfaced on Thursday.

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3 w. ago This grand London flat where Mick Jagger and Keith Richards partied now asks $7M for sale

This grand London flat where Mick Jagger and Keith Richards partied now asks $7M for sale  New York Post

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3 w. ago As a young man, I fell in love with the US. The country’s soul is still there, despite Trump’s best efforts to destroy it | John Harris

For many of us, the United States means music, progress, hope. Whatever their president does, plenty of Americans continue to believe in those tooIt seems as inevitable as the economic chaos let loose by Donald Trump’s mad avalanche of tariffs: a precipitous drop in the number of tourists visiting the US, which is now forecast to be even worse than initially feared. In February, overseas travel to the country was down by 5% compared with the previous year – and, now, reputable forecasters are predicting a drop of nearly twice that size.We all know why. Trump’s hostile words about Canada and Mexico have hit the US’s top two markets for tourism. Finnish, German and Danish transgender and non-binary people have been advised by their governments to contact a US diplomatic mission before travelling there. Note also a trickle of reports about outsiders falling foul of the cruel stringency apparently now gripping the American authorities: a 28-year-old woman from north Wales held for 19 da...

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3 w. ago Woman who held ‘here to talk, if you want’ sign outside abortion clinic guilty of breaching buffer zone

Livia Tossici-Bolt, 64, has been convicted of breaching a buffer zone outside a Bournemouth abortion clinic in a case that drew attention from top US officials

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4 w. ago Woman arrested after newborn baby found dead outside Notting Hill church in M&S bag

Woman in her 30s, believed to be the child’s mother, held on suspicion of concealing a birth, neglect and infanticide

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