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Easter getaways will be hit by 420 rail engineering projects costing £113million with major routes and stations shut Network Rail to carry out 420 projects between Good Friday and Easter Monday The West Coast Main Line will be closed north of Crewe from April 10 to April 13 Reduced timetable also in place between London Euston … Read more
BA cancels string of transatlantic flights due to coronavirus: London to US routes are reduced due to lack of demand and short-haul flights drastically cut back British Airways has grounded 24 flights between Heathrow and New York Airline will waive flight-change fees for bookings within the next two weeks Most BA cancellations are flights between … Read more
Three elite soldiers from the Queen’s elite Grenadier Guards have been jailed for a total of 24 years after holding up seven convenience stores in just three days. Kristopher James-Merrill, 20, Dillon Sharpe, 23, and Elnur Bracegirdle, 21, used a stun gun and knives to terrorise shop owners across south London. The Grenadier Guards regiment is … Read more
Man, 53, killed his partner, 35, by stabbing her 22 times with a kitchen knife in the bedroom of their home in east London, court hears Yi Xing Song, 53, is accused of murdering Li Qing Wang, 35, at house in Leyton He stabbed her in the bedroom 22 times, London’s Old Bailey was told … Read more
Shocking video footage shows a young man urinating on a London Underground train in front of horrified passengers. Hilary Freeman, 48, was on a Northern Line train from Camden Town to Bank on Saturday afternoon when she noticed a group of five men in their twenties drinking and being loud. They started walking back and … Read more
Moment saboteur sprays family-run Knightsbridge restaurant with foul-smelling liquid in stink bomb ‘vendetta’ as police release pictures of men they want to trace CCTV shows man spraying restaurant with ‘strong smelling food preservative’ Freej Swalieh, near Harrods, has been targeted three times by smelly substance Police shared snaps of men they would like to speak too about … Read more
An electric bicycle rider has been cleared at the Old Bailey of killing a pedestrian by careless driving in what is believed to be the first prosecution of its kind. Thomas Hanlon, 32, was said to have smashed into Sakine Cihan, 56, when he was 10mph above the 20mph speed limit as she crossed Kingsland … Read more
2020 OLYMPIC GAMES In doubt The scale of the outbreak in Japan saw senior International Olympic Committee member Dick Pound describe the disease as ‘the new war’ threatening Tokyo 2020 and he warned the Games may have to be cancelled if the virus was still around by May. Olympic organisers told athletes to train as normal … Read more
Madame Tussauds has unveiled a new companion for its Boris Johnson waxwork – a newborn baby. The Prime Minister’s lookalike model, which is housed at the London tourist attraction along with other famous politicians, has been kitted out with a papoose. The waxwork museum revealed its latest creation today to mark the news that Mr Johnson … Read more
The first wave of winning images in the prestigious Sony World Photography Awards 2020 has been revealed – and as always, the standard is truly spectacular. The amazing shots below are among the winners in the competition’s National Awards, which is aimed at supporting photographers across 63 countries and regions. One photographer from each nation … Read more