The Latest Breaking News from London

Hong Kong's property spending spree in London is over - but it can return

Hong Kong investors put over £2bn worth of London commercial properties up for sale last year

Evening Standard · Apr 3, 2025

London commuters: has art ever saved your life?

Artist Ahmet Öğüt has collaborated with Art on the Underground to gather life-saving stories from Tube passengers... with an art prize for the winners

Evening Standard · Apr 3, 2025

School pupils punished with detention for arriving late after TfL changes bus routes

Deputy head says reduced timetable leaves up to 50 pupils waiting for a bus

Evening Standard · Apr 3, 2025

Luton airport allowed to double capacity after UK government overrules planners

Transport secretary Heidi Alexander grants consent to London’s fourth-biggest airport to allow potential 32m passengers a year

The Guardian - UK · Apr 3, 2025

New 'controversial' James Bond will be 'fresh and exotic', insists Amazon as MGM reboot begins

Producers start work in London without original team as 007 franchise begins new era

Evening Standard · Apr 3, 2025

Montrose Clinic is offering London’s best mole check

Fretting about your freckles and moles? Check in to Belgravia’s Montrose Clinic.

Evening Standard · Apr 3, 2025

Arts education is a right, not a privilege: this is a national emergency

Arts education in London is lagging way behind regions like Ontario, and represents a dangerous blind spot that hampers the development of young people, says Devyani Saltzman, Barbican’s Director for Arts

Evening Standard · Apr 3, 2025

London Gatwick makes major change to 100ml liquid rules in time for Easter holidays getaway

The ‘positive change’ for airport passengers is thanks to the installation of new computed tomography (CT) 3D scanning machines

Evening Standard · Apr 3, 2025

Everything you need to know about the potential pedestrianisation of Oxford Street

London mayor Sir Sadiq Khan wants to make Oxford Street ‘a world-class, accessible, clean avenue’

Evening Standard · Apr 3, 2025

Usher: Race, reinvention, educating himself — and why he'd like to be Ed Sheeran

The superstar musician is in London for — count them — 10 nights at the O2. He speaks exclusively to Dylan Jones

Evening Standard · Apr 3, 2025