The Latest Breaking News from London

Lena Dunham's London move sparked creative reawakening

Lena Dunham has explained how moving to London has changed her life.

BANG Premier · Jul 9, 2025

HS2 should be ‘largely completed’ by now but project is just over halfway there, boss admits

HS2’s chief executive blamed the massive delays in the execution of the project on ‘inefficiency of work’

The Independent UK · Jul 9, 2025

London's own: Pizza Pilgrims and Beigel Bake are selling a salt beef pizza

Beigel Bake is an east London institution and is working with one of the country’s fastest growing pizzerias to make a very London dish

Evening Standard · Jul 9, 2025

Summer alcohol warning as it's revealed London paramedics were called to more than 300 booze-related incidents a day in August

With the UK now bracing itself for its third heatwave, ambulance bosses have issued a warning to revellers to look after themselves and their friends

Evening Standard · Jul 9, 2025

Heatwaves likely caused 263 more deaths in London, scientists estimate - as soaring temperatures trigger week-long health alert

Stark estimate of heatwave deaths in London comes as week-long yellow heat health alert kicks in at 10am on Wednesday

Evening Standard · Jul 9, 2025

UK court convicts 3 men of arson in attack linked to Russia’s Wagner Group

Attack on equipment for Ukraine was planned by Wagner mercenaries on behalf of Russian intelligence, prosecutors said.

Al Jazeera · Jul 9, 2025

Ed Sheeran painted in a disused London car park

Pop star Ed Sheeran has revealed he turned to painting as a "creative outlet" and he set up a makeshift workshop in a disused car park in central London.

BANG Premier · Jul 9, 2025

Sadiq Khan vows policing blitz to tackle tide of crime in London’s 20 most blighted town centres

Theft epidemic estimated to cost retailers in the capital £16.8 million every month

Evening Standard · Jul 9, 2025

European intelligence officials warn that a Russian sabotage campaign is escalating

European intelligence officials say they’re worried the risk of serious injury or even death is rising in a campaign of sabotage blamed on Russia as untrained saboteurs set fires, plant explosives or build bombs

The Independent UK · Jul 9, 2025

Looser bonus rules and tax breaks needed to save London stock market, says CBI

Industry lobby group draws up 20-point plan to stop London ‘drifting into irrelevance’

The Guardian - UK · Jul 9, 2025