The Latest Breaking News from London

Alan Carr’s Traitors makeover unveiled at Madame Tussauds London

The star – whose instantly iconic ‘Endgame’ win became the BBC’s biggest TV moment of 2025 – has been restyled in the franchise’s signature dark-green hooded robe

Evening Standard · Nov 13, 2025

Killer faces life sentence for murder of man left to decompose in bathtub in north London

Dante Forrest, 36, will be sentenced on November 18 after killing Marvin Dickson, 40

Evening Standard · Nov 13, 2025

Meal kits go gourmet with new on demand delivery service from top chefs

Londoners will have a choice of 13 meals kits costing up to £99 for two from the likes of Angela Hartnett and Rick Stein

Evening Standard · Nov 13, 2025

London secondary schools numbers set to decline in similar scale to primary school crisis

Experts have warned that schools are having to merge classes and even year groups due to a sharp drop in the capital’s birth rate

Evening Standard · Nov 13, 2025

‘We had to dumb ourselves down to fit in’: Squeeze’s Glenn Tilbrook and Chris Difford on finally making the first album they wrote as teens

Written in 1974, the Bowie-influenced songs on Trixies are set in a fictional south London nightclub, but were shelved when punk took the band in a new direction. Now, after Squeeze’s 50th anniversary, they’re seeing the light of day

The Guardian - UK · Nov 13, 2025

"Rockstar want us to feel scared": GTA 6 studio staff plan international protests demanding Rockstar reinstate 31 employees it claims were leaking information

Protests will take place in Paris, London, and Edinburgh

GamesRadar · Nov 13, 2025

Royal escort motorcyclist found not guilty of killing pensioner by careless driving in London crash

Helen Holland, 81, died two weeks after she was hit and sent flying in the incident on West Cromwell Road

Evening Standard · Nov 13, 2025

London congestion charge to rise to £18 – and electric vehicles will have to pay

Motoring groups criticise changes for making it ‘harder to go green’ though discounts of up to 50% will apply

The Guardian - UK · Nov 13, 2025

Half of Londoners would swap cars for the Tube if fares were slashed, poll finds

Data also indicates that more than a third of Londoners would choose public transport if it was less crowded, safer and more reliable

Evening Standard · Nov 13, 2025

Peabody pulls out of 564-home housing plan for west London

Peabody has pulled out of plans to construct 564 new homes on The Green in Southall citing increased costs and regulation

Evening Standard · Nov 13, 2025