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Conservative leadership race: ‘No time to lose’ to help millions of families, incoming Prime Minister told

As the wholesale price of gas soared on Monday morning, London leaders appeal for major new support package

Evening Standard · Sep 5, 2022

Soaring nursery costs, recruitment issues and chronic underfunding — inside London’s childcare crisis

Two-thirds of London’s early years childcare centres face closure and one in four young parents are quitting work to cope with soaring nursery fees. So what can be done? Kate Wills reports

Evening Standard · Sep 5, 2022

Heathrow Tube and train fare hike: Why are tickets more expensive and how to avoid them

Off-peak Tube travellers to Heathrow can avoid the sudden fare rise by tapping out and in again at Hatton Cross station

The Independent UK · Sep 5, 2022

Lessons by Ian McEwan review – this boy’s life

The novelist’s attempt to capture a man’s existence over eight decades of personal and global change makes you long for the more melodramatic turns of his other books

The Guardian - UK · Sep 5, 2022

Haley McGee’s show Age is a Feeling took the Edinburgh Fringe by storm; now it’s back in London

Age Is a Feeling became the break-out hit at the world’s largest arts festival

Evening Standard · Sep 5, 2022

Niall Horan spotted at GAA match as local club pick up rare championship title

Wandsworth Gaels, of which Horan was formerly a member of, picked up their first London Junior Football title in the clubs history.

Irish Mirror · Sep 4, 2022

Fatal shooting: Residents woken by gunshots and screaming

A man died after he was shot in west London in the early hours of Sunday.

The Independent UK · Sep 4, 2022

YouTubers race to Edinburgh Castle from London in train versus plane showdown

The Points Guys UK, who have 376,000 subscribers on YouTube, have recorded several similar vlog-style videos in the past, often putting two different types of transport to the test to see who can get from A-B the quickest, and the easiest

Edinburgh Live · Sep 4, 2022

‘Amazingly uplifting’: barefoot climber greets couple through 40th-floor window of Shard

Visitors in London for birthday trip were in bed when Adam Lockwood waved to them on way to top of 72-floor landmark

The Guardian - UK · Sep 4, 2022

South African Lion King cast member 'baffled' by Meghan Markle's Mandela comment

Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, recalled an interaction during a premiere of The Lion King in London back in 2019, saying one well-wisher told her that her marriage was celebrated as much as the freeing of Nelson Mandela

Daily Mirror · Sep 4, 2022