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Three London Underground lines are running – albeit with part suspensions – as the TfL walkout hits day three. It comes after the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) members strike. Union members voted overwhelmingly to take action after negotiations failed to resolve a long-running dispute over pay and conditions, following the union’s demand for a 32‑hour ...

Sutton Council wants to take over a long-empty site to kickstart the development of 34 brand-new affordable homes. Sutton hopes the move will help tackle the borough’s growing housing crisis. The plans would transform the disused industrial site at 71–75 Westmead Road, near Carshalton, into a modern development of one, two and three-bedroom homes. All 34 units will be for ...

Travellers are facing severe disruption as few to no London Underground services are expected from Monday amid walkouts by thousands of workers. Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT), including drivers, signallers and maintenance workers, launched a series of strikes over pay and conditions. The action kicked off on Sunday with limited services running but levels of disruption ...

London Underground staff have started a five-day walkout over pay and conditions. Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union are carrying out rolling action over pay and “fatigue management”, and have asked for a 32-hour week. There will be limited service until 18:00 BST on Sunday and little or no service between Monday and Thursday. The Elizabeth line ...

There were 890 people arrested at a demonstration against the ban on the group Palestine Action in London on Saturday, the Metropolitan Police say. The majority of the arrests were for supporting a proscribed group under the Terrorism Act, while police said 17 were also arrested for assaults on police officers “after the protest turned violent”. But event organisers said ...

More than 400 people were arrested in London on Saturday during a tense protest in support of the Palestine Action group, which has been banned under terror laws, police said. Several hundred people demonstrated in front of the UK parliament, with some holding placards that read: “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.” The capital’s Metropolitan Police force (Met) had ...

Around 100 firefighters were called to a blaze on Saturday at the former BBC headquarters Television Centre in London’s White City, the British public broadcaster reported. The London Fire Brigade said firefighters from Hammersmith, North Kensington, Kensington, Chiswick and surrounding fire stations were mobilised after it was called to a fire at a nine-storey building soon after 3 a.m. UK ...

Croydon’s directly elected mayor has told the BBC that he thinks the decision by the government to send commissioners into the debt-ridden council may have been politically motivated, ahead of local elections next spring. Conservative Jason Perry said Croydon had been on a “journey of improvement” after the borough effectively went bankrupt three times, adding that what it really needed ...

Muhammed Shahed Rahman : Neighbor Daniel Whybrow has been sentenced to life in prison for the stabbing death of British-Bangladeshi man Rais Ahmed in east London, UK. On October 5 last year, Daniel Whybrow, a white neighbour, was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum sentence of 24 years for the murder of 50-year-old British-Bangladeshi Rais Ahmed in the Customs ...

A total of 17 people have been injured, with most taken to hospital, after a bus struck pedestrians on a busy London street. The driver of the Route 24 bus was among those hurt after the bus mounted the pavement on Victoria Street, near Victoria Station. It took place at around 8.20am on Thursday, according to the Metropolitan Police. “Two ...