The Latest Breaking News from London

TfL plan to speed-up London buses: not stopping at bus stops and banning cars from key roads

Express buses that skip bus stops and banning cars and taxis from key roads are among the plans revealed on Friday to speed up London’s bus fleet.

Evening Standard · Mar 11, 2022

The Leader podcast: What London’s new clean air plan means for your lungs and pocket

We speak to Dr Gary Fuller, an air pollution scientist at Imperial College London.

Evening Standard · Mar 11, 2022

UK politics: UK will support Ukraine with weapons and diplomacy in face of ‘barbaric war’, says Truss – as it happened

The UK will target those complicit in Putin’s illegal invasion of Ukraine, the foreign secretary says, as sanctions are announced for some Russian MPs

The Guardian - UK · Mar 11, 2022

Hockney 2.0, rare Japanese masterworks and LOVE comes to Yorkshire – the week in art

Robert Indiana’s sculpture lands near Leeds, Kyōsai comes to London and David Hockney’s tech trials continue – all in your weekly dispatch

The Guardian - UK · Mar 11, 2022

Uncertainty at Chelsea amid Abramovich sanctions

LONDON: Manager Thomas Tuchel admits Chelsea face an uncertain future as doubts swirl over how the European football champions will even pay their wage bill after Russian owner Roman Abramovich was hit with UK sanctions.

Bangkok Post · Mar 11, 2022

Let’s storm Parliament! The punks who risked their lives to fix ableist Britain

They chained themselves to buses, threw themselves in traffic and brought London to a standstill – until the powers that be could ignore them no more. Now, their fight is being brought to life … and it’s truly groundbreaking TV

The Guardian - UK · Mar 11, 2022

Government Right to Sanction Chelsea’s Abramovich, Says Liverpool’s Klopp

The British government was right to impose sanctions on Chelsea's Russian owner Roman Abramovich but the Premier League club's employees should not have to suffer for it, Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp said on Friday. Abramovich, who had been under scrutiny following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, announced he was selling the…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Mar 11, 2022

Mary Coombs obituary

The first female commercial computer programmer – on the Leo system that J Lyons & Co pioneered for its catering operation

The Guardian - UK · Mar 11, 2022

Cédric Grolet at the Berkeley, London W1: ‘Spiking the blood sugar levels of Europe’ – restaurant review

A Frenchman wading into Britain’s fractious ‘jam or cream first?’ scone debate is either foolhardy or admirable

The Guardian - UK · Mar 11, 2022

Bridgerton star Golda Rosheuvel: ‘I’m definitely in a relationship with the wigs’

The Netflix show’s indomitable Queen Charlotte on conscious casting, taking risks, and – of course – those magnificent wigs

The Guardian - UK · Mar 11, 2022