The Latest Breaking News from London

The queues at viral restaurants are nothing to do with eating, and everything to do with bragging rights

For a TikTok creator, the wait means content. For everyone else? It’s just a lost afternoon, writes Amira Arasteh

Evening Standard · Sep 30, 2025

Knife Edge: LA's Michelin-starred Pasta Bar comes to London in collaboration with Gordon Ramsay

The Pasta Bar founders appear on Gordon Ramsay’s new TV show, Knife Edge

Evening Standard · Sep 30, 2025

Want a free Frieze ticket? Michael Craig-Martin is giving them away to volunteers who help paint his mural

Tickets for Frieze London may be sold out, but there’s one way you can still grab them

Evening Standard · Sep 30, 2025

Six people arrested by police investigating late-night vandalism attacks on London primary schools

The attackers, who used stones and a hammer to break dozens of windows, were caught on CCTV but their identities were disguised by balaclavas

Evening Standard · Sep 30, 2025

Notting Hill house narrower than a London Tube carriage for sale for £1.2 million

The property, on Peel Street, was built in the gap between its two neighbouring houses in the 1930s

Evening Standard · Sep 30, 2025

‘She didn’t realise how dangerous it was’: London-bound student held in China over Tibet support

Zhang Yadi was due to begin a degree in the UK but the activist vanished on holiday amid tensions over Dalai Lama

The Guardian - UK · Sep 30, 2025

Mahatma Gandhi statue in London's Tavistock Square defaced by 'shameful' vandals as India demands action

The Indian High Commission said it was ‘deeply saddened’ by the ‘shameful act of vandalism’

Evening Standard · Sep 30, 2025

London high street shut down after huge fire by Odeon cinema

Ten fire engines and 70 firefighters were called to the blaze on Beckenham High Street

The Independent UK · Sep 30, 2025

Greek heiress died of sepsis caused by insect bite 'hours after she was discharged from London hospital'

Marissa Laimou, 30, was found dead by a housekeeper at her family home in Knightsbridge just days after falling ill

Evening Standard · Sep 30, 2025

'Because of 20/20 Levels, I’m not just surviving — I am building something meaningful'

As a new £150,000 pledge lifts our campaign total to £950,000, we hear from Samuel, who was lured into a cult-like church when unemployed — but escaped and found work thanks to 20/20 Levels, one of the organisations we are funding

Evening Standard · Sep 30, 2025