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The first new mainline station has opened in London for over a decade. more

Two girls aged 13 and 14 have been arrested for the robbery of a 20-year-old Orthodox Jewish woman in London, police in the British capital said yesterday. It is treating the incident as a possible hate crime, it added.more

Transport for London (TfL) has said it will keep most of its services running throughout the festive period but is advising customers to plan journeys ahead. more

A north London landlord has been ordered to pay £20,000 to tenants after not registering a property as a house of multiple occupancy (HMO). more

It’s coming. Slowly but surely – and many, many years after similar metro networks around the world – London’s tube is getting mobile phone coverage. A few months ago coverage came to several stations on the Central and Northern Lines (and tunnels between those stations) – and now even more stations have been blessed with data. more

Thirteen people were arrested yesterday in London during a weekly solidarity march with Palestinians, the London Metropolitan Police said.more

King Charles III appeared at Ealing Broadway Shopping Center yesterday to meet locals and browse the Christmas food and gift stalls. The center building was quickly filled with crowds of subjects who wanted to take photos with the monarch or send him Christmas wishes.more

A new helpline has been set up to protect women and girls from online harassment, cyberstalking and sextortion in London. more

For the first time in history, one of London's districts topped the "Happy at Home Index" ranking prepared by the Rightmove group. It's about Richmond-upon-Thames, which was considered "the happiest place to live in the whole of Britain".more

Londoners are being urged to leave their unneeded coats at clothing rails to help those in need in the capital stay warm this winter. The annual Take One Leave One (TOLO) campaign is launching on Friday for its sixth winter in a row.more

People posting Christmas cards and letters are in for a festive surprise thanks to “singing” postboxes. Royal Mail said the special postboxes will be sited in London's Oxford Street, as well as Swansea, Glasgow and Belfast.more

London's centrepiece Christmas tree has arrived in Trafalgar Square. The 70ft fir tree was pictured arriving on the back of a truck on Monday morning following a lengthy journey from Norway, where it was felled last week.more

In the London church of Saint Andrzej Bobola, on Sunday, a ceremony took place to farewell the ashes of two outstanding Polish officers from the times of the Second Polish Republic - the legendary defender of Tobruk, General Stanisław Kopański and a member of the 1st Uhlan Regiment of the Polish Legions, Lieutenant Colonel Stefan Eichler.more

The number of households in temporary accommodation in England has hit a record high of 105,750 - with the picture also worsening in London.more

This year’s Trafalgar Square Christmas tree may be the last to be sent from Norway, reports have claimed. The City of Oslo has sent a tree to London every year as a token of gratitude for British support for Norway during the Second World War.more

Latest data from Transport for London showed 10,836 offences were reported between April and September this year, compared with 6,294 over the same period last year.more

Police are on standby as more than 40 pro-Palestine protests are held across the UK this weekend, including a series of rallies in London. more

Tube passengers are facing a growing threat of strike action early next year after several unions rejected a proposed five per cent pay offer. The RMT, which represents about 10,000 London Underground staff, is mid-way through balloting its members on possible walkouts.more

Sadiq Khan has urged the Government to take further action in tackling rogue landlords making tens of thousands of pounds a year from damp and mouldy properties. more

Sixteen activists of the Just Stop Oil group, which demands a halt to fossil fuel extraction, were arrested on the night from Wednesday to Thursday after a protest organized in front of the private home of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.more

Drink spiking offences in London have roughly quadrupled over the last five years, new figures reveal. Met Police data shows that while there were 497 offences related to drink spiking in the capital in 2018, the number had risen more than 300 per cent, to 2,066 offences, by 2022. more

A UK airport has created confusion after branding itself as a part of ‘London’ - despite being closer to France than the English capital. Officially named Lydd Airport, the airspace, which has been out of action for commercial airlines since 2018, is sat in Kent's Romney Marshesmore

Uber is opening up its ride-hailing app to black cab drivers in the new year, in what it has dubbed a "partnership" with hackney carriage drivers. more

Eurostar trains from Amsterdam to London via Rotterdam will not take passengers for six months while a new terminal is built at Centraal station in the Dutch capital, Dutch Railways (NS) has announced.more

A night Superloop service should be introduced to better connect the London's suburbs, a City Hall politician has said. Six new routes are being created and four incorporated into the express network, which was announced in March.more