Tickets for London's annual New Year's Eve fireworks display are to go on sale at midday on 18 October. They are priced between £20 and £50, depending on the viewing area, and Londoners will be charged £15 less than visitors.more
Texas-based hypersonic travel company Venus Aerospace announced it has begun work on an engine that could power high-speed vehicles, including drones and planes. If successful, a typical flight between London and New York could take less than an hour.more
Polish footballers lost 1:3 to Portugal in the 3rd round of the Nations League in Warsaw. Piotr Zieliński scored the goal for the white and reds. In the second match of group A1, Croatia won 2:1 against Scotland in Zagreb.more
Wilko has confirmed it will open a new store in Uxbridge on November 22 as it continues plans to return to the high streets. The launch marks the household and garden retailer’s return to West London and is its seventh opening since the brand was acquired by CDS Superstores in September 2023.more
When Keir Starmer took office as British Prime Minister exactly one hundred days ago, no one expected that everything would immediately change for the better. Starmer himself warned that fixing the country would be a long process. But no one expected it to start with such a big false start.more
Scrapping short prison terms is among a number of ideas set to be considered by an upcoming government review of sentencing. Ministers are interested in proposals to toughen up community orders as an alternative to jail, to reduce the number of offenders in prisons.more
Gibraltar border forces yesterday began checking the passports of foreigners crossing the border into this British territory on the tip of the Iberian Peninsula, on the southern border of Spain.more
Only 20% of Poles know of any other form of contraception than condoms, and for 23% of respondents, the topic of pregnancy prevention methods is a taboo - according to a report by Kantar, presented by the Coalition Right to Contraception.more
Germany beat Bosnia and Herzegovina 2-1 away in the top division of the Nations League. In another Group 3 match, Hungary drew 1-1 at home with the Netherlands.more
A London borough has proposed a raft of extreme cost cutting measures and requested emergency government funding as its homelessness bill pushes it to the brink of bankruptcy. more
We are living longer, but the rate of increase in average life expectancy is declining. The reason for this is not the pandemic, according to research published in Nature Aging.more
Magdalena Fręch, who reached the quarter-finals of a WTA 1000 tournament for the first time, failed to cause another surprise in Wuhan, China. The Polish tennis player lost at this stage to the top-seeded Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka 2:6, 2:6.more
A South London park has been named the most beautiful autumnal spot. Photography experts at parrotprint.com ranked the seven most breathtaking spots nationwide.more
The UK returned to growth in August but the "broader picture" is one of a "slowing" economy in recent months, the official statistics body has said.
A bounce back in construction and strong month for accountancy, manufacturers and retail businesses helped boost the economy by 0.2%, after it failed to grow in the previous two months.more
Proposals for the Night Tube to run on Thursday nights are being kept “under review”, Sadiq Khan has said.
The mayor told London Assembly members that while he would like to see the service expanded, Transport for London’s (TfL) finances are currently too constrained. more
The NHS is approaching winter in a “bad shape”, experts have warned, as new figures showed that the number of people waiting for routine hospital treatment in London has increased. more
Croatia’s border police force appear to be burning clothing, mobile phones and passports seized from asylum seekers attempting to cross into the European Union before pushing them back to Bosnia. A report with photographs of burnt belongings, along with testimonies of sexual assault and beatings meted out by the police is shared with the Guardian by the humanitarian organisation No Name Kitchen.more
Magda Linette lost to the fourth-ranked American tennis player Coco Gauff 0:6, 4:6 and was eliminated in the quarterfinals of the WTA 1000 tournament on hard courts in Wuhan, China. It was the first time that a Polish player had made it this far in an event of this rank.more
Yesterday, Irish carrier Ryanair announced a significant reduction in its flight offering from Hamburg and the withdrawal from Dresden, Leipzig and Dortmund airports after the winter season. The company's director, Eddie Wilson, explained the decision by the high costs of operating at German airports.more
France comfortably beat Israel 4-1 in Thursday's top-division Nations League match. In the other Group A2 match, Italy drew 2-2 with Belgium, while England, playing in a lower division, suffered a setback, losing 2-1 at home to Greece.more
Swedish Minister of Education Johan Pehrson has proposed the introduction of an excise tax on advertising revenue generated by social media on a similar basis to the sale of tobacco or alcohol. These are just as harmful products, he stressed.more
