The Latest Breaking News from London

Tour guides call for ban on megaphones at London attractions

Institute of Tourist Guiding says the number of amateur guides with noisy voice amplifiers disrupting other tours have ‘escalated’

Evening Standard · Sep 27, 2023

Black athlete recounts ‘traumatic’ police stops at officers’ misconduct tribunal

Ricardo dos Santos tells lawyers they cannot understand what it is like being a young black person in London

The Guardian - UK · Sep 27, 2023

Bus driver and passer-by ‘tried to save’ girl stabbed to death on way to school

The teenager from Old Palace of John Whitgift School died after being attacked in Croydon, south London on Wednesday

The Independent UK · Sep 27, 2023

New York is breaking free of Airbnb’s clutches. This is how the rest of the world can follow suit

The company is calling it a ‘de facto’ ban – and it could reshape the housing market in residents’ favour, says author Anna Minton

The Guardian - UK · Sep 27, 2023

Sunak warned he is ‘risking cohesion of country’ as Labour mayors meet over HS2

Labour mayors Sadiq Khan, Andy Burnham, Tracy Brabin, Oliver Coppard and Steve Rotheram gathered in Leeds to warn against further rail cuts.

The Independent UK · Sep 27, 2023

Susan Hall shrugs off liking Enoch Powell tweet saying offence ‘wasn’t intended’

The Tory London mayoral candidate said she ‘can’t remember’ supporting a tweet with Islamophobic undertones about rival Sadiq Khan.

The Independent UK · Sep 27, 2023

London refuse workers’ strike ends as pay deal with council reached

Unite says extra £750 secured for Tower Hamlets striking workers after rubbish left on streets for nearly two weeks

The Guardian - UK · Sep 27, 2023

Teenage girl stabbed to death during rush hour in south London

A teenager who knows the victim has been arrested.

The Independent UK · Sep 27, 2023

Boss of HS2 building firm savages Rishi Sunak over scrapping new London station

Mark Reynolds says it will take longer to travel the five miles from Old Oak Common to London than the previous 114 miles from Birmingham

The Independent UK · Sep 27, 2023

Several hundred Wagner fighters return to eastern Ukraine, Kyiv says

Several hundred members of Russia’s Wagner private mercenary group have returned to eastern Ukraine to fight but are not having a significant impact on the battlefield, a Ukrainian military spokesperson said on Wednesday. Wagner fighters played an important role in Russia’s capture of the eastern city of Bakhmut in May…

France 24 · Sep 27, 2023