Około 100 tys. osoby według policji, kontrolowane przez udział w manifestacji poparcia dla Palestyńczyków, które wystąpią w sobotnie popołudnie w Londynie. Demonstracje miejsca także w innych brytyjskich miastach, m.in. w Manchesterze, Glasgow i Belfaście.more
Roehampton North West in Wandsworth has been named as one of the areas in London with the lowest household income of any neighbourhood.
Households in the leafy London suburb on the border of Richmond Park earn an average of just £38,900 a year from the financial year 2020 according to data from the Office of National Statistics published this year.more
Since the beginning of October, almost 15 times more anti-Semitic incidents have been recorded in London than in the same period of October last year, the London Metropolitan Police reported yesterday. The number of incidents motivated by Islamophobia is also increasing, although not to such a drastic extent.more
'Hundreds' of emergency services have rushed to an explosion near a Central London railway station this morning (Friday, October 27). City of London Police confirmed there was an explosion in a manhole cover on Mark Lane.more
The first of 3 new electric ferries has been launched on the River Thames in London. A hybrid system allows the new ships to transport commuters and tourists solely using battery power.more
Three activists from the Just Stop Oil group, which claims to be fighting climate change, yesterday sprayed orange paint on Wellington Arch, a nearly 200-year-old triumphal arch located near Buckingham Palace in London.more
The decision to deprive Shamima Begum of her British citizenship was unlawful, the Court of Appeal has heard.
Ms Begum travelled to Syria in 2015 – at the age of 15 – before her British citizenship was revoked on national security grounds shortly after she was found in a Syrian refugee camp in February 2019.more
The one-day Travelcard has been saved, Transport for London announced on Tuesday.
TfL has struck a deal with train firms to retain the ticket, which is used more than 14 million times a year by people visiting the capital.more
A Hamas chief is living in a London council house despite allegedly running violent operations in the West Bank, a report has revealed.
Muhammad Qassem Sawalha, 62, was given a £112,300 discount on the £320,700 two-storey home by Barnet Council.more
Within four years, we will digitize 7 million herbarium plant specimens and make them available for free on the Internet. We hope that it will work like a spiral and other countries will also want to follow our lead. Creating databases with free access is crucial for the development of science, said Dr. Alan Paton, keeper of the herbarium plant collection at the Royal Kew Gardens in London.more
About 100,000 people took part in yesterday's pro-Palestinian demonstration in central London. They demanded an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, Reuters reported.more
More than a third of adult Londoners are not doing the recommended levels of exercise, a study revealed on Thursday, as a charity urged Sadiq Khan to tackle the capital’s inactivity crisis.more
There are four flood alerts in place in different parts of the city including around South Ruislip and one that covers parts of Lewisham, Bromley, Greenwich and Croydon.more
The UK is home to the top three most overpriced tourist attractions in the world, according to new research.
Coming in at number one is a place dedicated to one of the UK’s biggest cultural exports.
The Warner Bros Studio Tour - The Making of Harry Potter lets fans indulge in the wizarding world and see all the biggest sets from all the films.more
Acid attacks have risen in London by 45% in a year, Met Police data revealed. The force recorded 107 of such attacks in 2022, up from 74 in 2021, a Freedom of Information request stated.more
The Metropolitan Police plans to use facial recognition technology going forward to try to identify and arrest London's most prolific shoplifters.
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Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg was detained by police in London today during a protest against a conference of oil and gas companies being held at a hotel in the city, Reuters reported, citing witnesses.more
Sadiq Khan made the announcement at an Underground station to mark World Restart A Heart Day. Last year, the London Ambulance Service responded to 13,000 cardiac arrests across the capital.
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Sadiq Khan is offering all 500 secondary schools in London knife wand metal detectors to screen pupils for weapons in the wake of 15-year-old Elianne Andam’s murder.more
A piece of street art appeared in central London this week, and has sparked rumours it could be a new Banksy.
The spraypainted black-and-white work features a robotic arm writing the words “another world is possible”, as three people attempt to drag it away using ropes.more
