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Grenfell survivors’ anger as police say no charges until 2021
‘Extremely frustrating and disheartening’: investigation held up by public inquiry Survivors and the bereaved from the Grenfell Tower fire have expressed their “extreme frustration” at the pace of justice after… Read more »
Tories are prejudiced against Islam, says council candidate
Amir Sadjady told to ‘suck it up’ and stop complaining after alleging discrimination A Muslim Conservative who was told to stop complaining that he had been discriminated against after he… Read more »
Isis follower jailed for terror plot to drive van into London shoppers
Former Royal Mail worker Lewis Ludlow jailed for planning ‘spectacular’ attack A man has been jailed for at least 15 years for a terrorist plot to drive a van into… Read more »
Explosive devices found at Waterloo station, Heathrow and City airports
Irish police assist Met inquiry after Republic of Ireland stamps found on packages Three improvised explosive devices have been found at separate transport hubs in London in what Scotland Yard… Read more »
Backlash as May rejects link between stabbings and police numbers
Political row erupts amid new evidence of a sharp rise in teens using knives The prime minister has sparked a backlash over the government’s handling of rising knife crime after… Read more »
UK experiences hottest winter day ever as 21.2C is recorded in London
Parts of Britain exceed temperatures in Malibu, Athens and Crete The UK has experienced its warmest winter day on record, the Met Office has revealed. Temperatures in Kew Gardens, south-west… Read more »
Independent Group rules out electing leader until end of year
MPs expected to make decision once group fulfils ambition to become a political party A leader may not be elected to the newly formed Independent Group of MPs until the… Read more »
Met police kept families of Isis schoolgirls ‘in the dark’
Shamima Begum and the other Bethnal Green girls who travelled to Syria could have been stopped, their parents say The families of a group of Bethnal Green schoolgirls who went… Read more »
Teenager dies after shotgun and knife attack in north London
Police find injured men aged 19 and 20 after responding to reports of a fight in Wood Green A teenager has died after suffering shotgun and stab injuries in an… Read more »
Met disproportionately white for another 100 years – police leaders
Commissioner Cressida Dick says institutionally racist label not a ‘useful way to describe’ force The Metropolitan police will be disproportionately white for at least another 100 years at the current… Read more »
Shamima Begum may have criminalised herself, says senior terrorism officer
Family calls for her return to UK and considers legal action to stop government blocking it The UK’s most senior counter-terrorism officer has said that Shamima Begum, who left the… Read more »
Rare works by ‘cultural magpies’ of Bauhaus to go on show in London
Exclusive: Sotheby’s to exhibit art from influential German design school ahead of auction A collection of seldom-viewed paintings by key proponents of the influential Bauhaus art and design school are… Read more »
UK will not put officials at risk to rescue Isis Britons, says minister
Ben Wallace says ‘actions have consequences’ as schoolgirl who joined Isis is found in Syria The security minister, Ben Wallace, has said he would not put officials’ lives at risk… Read more »
London schoolgirl who fled to join Isis wants to return to UK
Shamima Begum, 19, in refugee camp in Syria after fleeing last territory held by Islamic State An east London schoolgirl who left the UK in 2015 to join Islamic State… Read more »
Garden bridge charity spent £53.5m with no construction, TfL finds
Review finds £43m of public money went on abandoned Thames bridge scheme The charity behind a plan to build a garden bridge across the Thames in London spent £53.5m without… Read more »
Sumatran tiger killed by potential mate on first meeting in London zoo
Tigers were put together through breeding programme that hopes to save species from extinction A Sumatran tiger kept at London zoo has been killed by its potential mate during their… Read more »
Brexit crisis command centre starts hiring civilians
Exclusive: recruiters told military-style operation could stay open for two years The government has started to recruit civilians to work in an emergency command and control centre being set up… Read more »
Fabula AI is using social spread to spot ‘fake news’
UK startup Fabula AI reckons it’s devised a way for artificial intelligence to help user generated content platforms get on top of the disinformation crisis that keeps rocking the world… Read more »
Tory MP Ross Thomson accused of groping men in Commons bar
Police escorted away Aberdeenshire MP after being called in at 11pm A Conservative MP has been accused of groping men in a bar in parliament before being escorted away by… Read more »
Karl Marx’s London grave vandalised in suspected hammer attack
Friends of Highgate Cemetery calls attack a ‘particularly inarticulate form of political comment’ The tomb of Karl Marx at London’s Highgate cemetery has been vandalised in a targeted attack that… Read more »
Experts warned of fire-spread risks two years before Grenfell
Campaigners express anger as 2015 Whitehall studies warning of risks in such buildings are released Experts warned the government two years before the Grenfell Tower disaster that not enough was… Read more »
As rocket companies proliferate, new enabling tech emerges as the next wave in the space race
Blue Origin, Rocket Lab, Relativity Space, Slingshot Aeropsace, SpaceX and Virgin Orbit have raised billions of dollars to create new vehicles to launch payloads into space, but as the private… Read more »
Mother of three-year-old is first person convicted of FGM in UK
Ugandan woman from east London was accused of mutilating daughter in 2017 The mother of a three-year-old girl has become the first person to be found guilty of female genital… Read more »
Entrepreneur First eyes further Asia growth to build its global network of founders
British startup venture builder Entrepreneur First is eying additional expansion in Asia, where its operation is now as large as it is in Europe, as it expands its reach in… Read more »
The Brexit threat hanging over startups in the UK tech sector
EU departure is hitting staffing and triggering animosity to European employees “We allow cultures to understand each other better,” says Bernhard Niesner, the co-founder and chief executive of a language-learning… Read more »
Met police ‘disproportionately’ use stop and search powers on black people
London’s minority black population targeted more than white population in 2018 – official figures The Metropolitan police increased its use of stop and search last year, with a 19% rise… Read more »
Key EU medicines regulator closes London office with loss of 900 jobs
European Medicines Agency heads for Amsterdam 63 days before Brexit The European Medicines Agency, one of the biggest EU regulators and one of the first casualties of Brexit, has closed… Read more »
Patisserie Valerie chair extracted more than £40m from failed chain
Original outlet in London’s Soho among those closed at cost of 920 jobs Luke Johnson, the multimillionaire chairman of collapsed cafe chain Patisserie Valerie, has extracted more than £40m from… Read more »
pi-top’s latest edtech tool doubles down on maker culture
London-based edtech startup, pi-top, has unboxed a new flagship learn-to-code product, demoing the “go anywhere” Pi-powered computer at the Bett Show education fare in London today. Discussing the product with… Read more »