The Latest Breaking News from South Kensington

V&A staff strike: When is it and how will it affect museum visitors?

Everything you need to know as workers at the V&A in South Kensington stage a two-day strike

Evening Standard · Sep 24

South Kensington Tube £120 million redevelopment finally set to begin as TfL awards contract

Overcrowding and a lack of disabled access at the busy station will be tackled by the project, which will also deliver new homes

Evening Standard · Sep 22

Sir Mick Jagger steps out with fiancée Melanie Hamrick at V&A Summer Party after teasing Rolling Stones tour return

The Rolling Stones frontman, 82, looked in high spirits as he posed with Hamrick, 38, at the annual fundraiser held at the V&A Museum in South Kensington

Evening Standard · Jun 18

Asylum seeker denies raping woman in London hostel after arriving in the UK illegally

Yousif Al-Maliki, 31, is accused of raping and sexually assaulting the woman at the Astor Hostel in South Kensington on August 1

Evening Standard · Sep 3, 2025

Asylum seeker denies raping and sexually assaulting woman in London hostel

Iraqi national Yousif Al-Maliki is accused of attacking the woman at the Astor Hostel in South Kensington on August 1.

The Independent UK · Sep 3, 2025

Moment shoplifters caught stealing baby clothes worth £800 from boutique popular with Princess of Wales

Metropolitan Police officers appeal for information over theft on Walton Street, South Kensington

Evening Standard · Jul 14, 2025

Black student alleges years of racist abuse at £17,000-a-year French school in London

A sixth-former at the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle in South Kensington alleged that she had been called a ‘monkey’

Evening Standard · Jun 21, 2025

OPINION - Tanni Grey-Thompson: It is shocking that a Tube station like South Kensington is still not step-free

This summer, the VA Museum opens its doors to a new exhibition Design and Disability, which aims to celebrate the creative force of Disabled, Deaf and neurodivergent people across design, art and culture. Described as “both a celebration and a call to action”, the exhibition will highlight the many ways…

Evening Standard · Jun 1, 2025

Council offers £12m to revamp overcrowded and inaccessible 'tourist hotspot' Tube station

South Kensington is gateway to Natural History Museum, Science Museum and V&A but has no step-free access

Evening Standard · Apr 24, 2025

More than 100 evacuated and nearly a dozen injured after fire in South Kensington

Eleven people treated for smoke inhalation after fire breaks out in residential building in London

The Guardian - AU · Mar 1, 2024