Betwixtmas: Things to do in London between Christmas and New Year There is much to do in London this festive season. Josh Barrie shares his pick of the fun Evening Standard · Dec 26, 2025
Lily Allen's property portfolio over the years: from Ladbroke Grove to Brooklyn — and back again Lily Allen has lived in some spectacular homes but her property journey hasn’t all been plain sailing Evening Standard · Dec 26, 2025
London's back! Buyers looking to move outside the capital at lowest level since 2013 Even those who are making the move out of town are staying closer with Home Counties trumping far flung pandemic hotspots Evening Standard · Dec 26, 2025
Home Counties hotspots where London buyers are snapping up properties revealed The traditional commuter belt area is ‘back on the map’ for people moving out of London, property firm Hamptons said. The Independent UK · Dec 26, 2025
Amandaland Christmas Special review: An absolutely fabulous festive frolic 4/5 Our favourite west London posho gets rural for this Christmas’s best festive viewing, complete with a deeply satisfying Ab Fab reunion Evening Standard · Dec 25, 2025
Why London's thriving e-commerce sector will boom in 2026 The UK’s status as an island nation with a rich history of import and export has always made it a vibrant hub for commerce Evening Standard · Dec 25, 2025
Me, myself and I: Meet Celia Paul, the solitary self-portrait artist exposing herself in Warsaw "It feels like a crisis every time I pick up a brush and paint, it's life or death." There's no sense of exaggeration or drama when Celia Paul talks about her work but her paintings speak volumes about, tenderness, spirituality and the people she loves most. Euronews · Dec 25, 2025
Josh Homme's My London: From Brutto to the Clink Prison Museum The Queens of the Stone Age frontman has seen it all from James Smith & Sons to Clink Prison Museum, Brutto, and Cahoots Evening Standard · Dec 25, 2025
Where Claudia Winkleman and Sophie live now — and their former homes, from north London to LA As we return to the castle for another season of The Traitors, this is everywhere Claudia Winkleman and her famous half-sister have called home Evening Standard · Dec 25, 2025
‘The best thing I have ever witnessed on stage’: readers’ favourite theatre of 2025 A transcendent new take on King Lear, a thrilling Evita and a show at Glasgow’s revamped Citizens that reduced one viewer to a ‘blubbering wreck’ are among your highlights The Guardian - UK · Dec 25, 2025
While We Wait For More IT: Welcome To Derry, The Co-Showrunner Wants To Make A Spinoff That I Would Absolutely Love To See This would be an amazing bonus to more Derry... Cinemablend · Dec 24, 2025
Man, 21, who popped out for Tesco food shop vanished a week ago, police say Samuel is known to frequent high streets in Greenford, Sudbury Hill and Harrow Evening Standard · Dec 24, 2025
British OnlyFans Star Bonnie Blue Sparks Global Backlash After 'Mocking' Indonesian Flag British adult content creator Bonnie Blue faces global criticism and official Indonesian diplomatic complaints after a video surfaced of her dragging the Indonesian flag outside the Indonesian Embassy in London and making mocking remarks about Indonesia following her deportation from Bali. International Business Times UK · Dec 24, 2025
Two young children kicked to floor at London Tube station The suspect walked away and boarded an eastbound Central line train, British Transport Police said Evening Standard · Dec 24, 2025
Barchart · Dec 24, 2025 Sugar Prices See Continued Support from Safras Forecasts for 2026/27 March NY world sugar #11 (SBH26 ) today is up +0.12 (+79%), and March London ICE white sugar #5 (SWH26 ) closed +3.30 (+0.76%). Sugar prices are seeing continued support from the forecast by consulting firm Safras & Mercado, released on Tuesday, that Brazil's sugar production in 2026/27 will fall...
Evening Standard · Dec 24, 2025 Suspect charged with murder after man, 40, stabbed to death in northwest London The victim collapsed at a flat in Tollgate House, Maida Vale around 9.30pm on Friday
Evening Standard · Dec 24, 2025 Urgent police search for north London schoolboy, 13, ‘who should be with family on Christmas Day’ Abdul’s father said the family are ‘deeply concerned’ for his safety since he left him in Islington
Evening Standard · Dec 24, 2025 Elizabeth line and London Overground face 'existential' threat from Great British Railways, warns TfL The Elizabeth line and Overground share tracks on parts of their routes
Evening Standard · Dec 24, 2025 Flu cases falling but health chiefs warn of risk of New Year 'bounce back' by virus which swept through London People are being urged to get vaccinated to protect themselves and their loved ones
Evening Standard · Dec 24, 2025 LFB issues Christmas candle warning after south London flat fire Firefighters say an unattended candle caused a flat fire in Stockwell and urged residents to take extra care with naked flames this Christmas
Evening Standard · Dec 24, 2025 Public asked to help find 13-year-old boy missing nearly two weeks Abdul was last seen leaving his family home in north London on December 13.
The Guardian - UK · Dec 24, 2025 ‘Freedom is a city where you can breathe’: four experts on Europe’s most liveable major cities From Copenhagen’s cycle lanes and Vienna’s shared parks to Barcelona and London’s unfulfilled potential, better living is close at hand
Evening Standard · Dec 24, 2025 FTSE fails to sparkle in tame pre-holiday trade BP closed down 0.4% after announcing the sale of a 65% stake in its lubricants business Castrol.
The Guardian - UK · Dec 24, 2025 John Antrobus obituary Playwright and screenwriter who teamed up with Spike Milligan to work on The Goon Show and The Bed-Sitting Room
Evening Standard · Dec 24, 2025 OPINION - 'My childhood in London was busy, energetic and colourful — I'd never raise my kids in the countryside' More and more friends with young children are packing themselves off to sleepy villages. I can’t imagine anything worse, says Claire Cohen