The Latest Breaking News from London

Kilburn man, 50, found guilty of murdering his partner, 80, in her west London home

Steven Clark was found guilty of murdering Ursula Uhlemann at her home in Queens Park

Evening Standard · Feb 18, 2025

NY Cocoa Prices Are Higher on Crop Concerns

March ICE NY cocoa (CCH25 ) today is up +153 (+1.51%), and March ICE London cocoa #7 (CAH25 ) is down -23 (-0.29%). NY cocoa prices are trading higher today on continued West African cocoa crop concerns. Cocoa farmers in the Ivory Coast are reporting that the mid-crop harvest prospects...

Barchart · Feb 18, 2025

Schools face funding squeeze amid falling London birth rate

‘School funding is allocated on a per-pupil basis, so a decrease in enrolment directly reduces budgets’, a new report warns

Evening Standard · Feb 18, 2025

Probe after pupil, 11, hit by train on way to school in south London

Jaiden Shehata, 11, was fatally struck by a train at Bourneview Level Crossing in Croydon on January 23

Evening Standard · Feb 18, 2025

Woman charged over 1978 death of five-year-old girl in London

Janice Nix, 66, charged with manslaughter over death of Andrea Bernard, who was assaulted in south London

The Guardian - UK · Feb 18, 2025

London is getting a bottomless lasagne restaurant (with a ‘lasangwich’ and cheap cocktails)

Move over brunch – a new contender of the bottomless restaurant game is coming for the crown in the form of pasta and bechamel

The Independent UK · Feb 18, 2025

Goya to Impressionism at the Courtauld Gallery review: fluid, charming, and entirely at home in London

5/5 This collection from Courtauld contemporary Oskar Reinhart complements the gallery perfectly

Evening Standard · Feb 18, 2025

Almost one London home in thirty is now a short term let finds new survey

New study finds there are now 117,000 homes listed for short-term let across London

Evening Standard · Feb 18, 2025

Man attacks lone woman on London’s DLR before asking for her number

A man attacked a lone woman at a London DLR station before asking her for her phone number and Instagram.

The Independent UK · Feb 18, 2025

Sadiq Khan ignores call to earmark funding for legal challenge against Heathrow expansion

City Hall Liberal Democrats warn the mayor to ‘be careful not to appear to backtrack on promises he has made to Londoners’

Evening Standard · Feb 18, 2025