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A train operator which runs services between London and the home counties has announced a temporary summer timetable. South Western Railway is reducing some of its services from London Waterloo to destinations in Surrey, Berkshire and Hampshire between 28 July and 29 August. It will affect off-peak services, which the company said have fewer customers during the summer holidays. It ...

DLR services have been cut back as the rollout of a new fleet of trains costing over £900 million has been delayed for over a year. Transport for London (TfL) has announced the first of 54 new, air-conditioned trains are expected to enter service on the DLR later this year, after the majority of them became stuck in Spain. An ...

The purpose of Model London is to create a diverse model agency which can provide equal opportunities and resources to both young male and female models. The main purpose was to encourage uprising designers to exhibit their creativity through fashion and promote diversity in both London and globally by representing and promoting multicultural England. Model London is going to be ...

Ansar Ahmed Ullah:   21 July, 2025 — Shuchishmita Maitra Auhona, a remarkable 20-year-old from Barking, London, has secured a coveted place at the University of Oxford to pursue a DPhil (PhD) in Medical Sciences — a rare achievement attained directly from a Bachelor’s degree, with no Master’s required. The daughter of Engr. Dr Sukanta Maitra and Kanika Mukherjee, Auhona completed ...

The mayor of London has been cleared of wrongdoing in accepting free tickets worth around £3,000 to a Taylor Swift concert last August. An independent investigation concluded that Sir Sadiq Khan did not breach the Greater London Authority (GLA) code of conduct, and that he had exercised an appropriate degree of caution. The Tories asked the GLA’s monitoring officer Rory ...

  The Save Bricklane Campaign Group has called on the council’s planning committee not to grant permission for the construction of any commercial building on the Truman Brewery Complex in Bricklane. The group’s leaders made this call at a press conference held at the Hason Raja Centre in east London on Friday (July 18). They said that the people of ...

    Former Great British Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain has suggested the BBC cancelled her cooking shows as she no longer fit the corporation’s “very neat box”. Hussain was a fixture on the broadcaster’s schedules ever since she won the baking competition in 2015, but earlier this year revealed the BBC no longer “wanted to commission” her show. The chef, whose shows included Nadiya’s British Food Adventure, Nadiya’s Everyday Baking and Nadiya’s Everyday Spices, ...

  Ansar Ahmed Ullah:    July 17, 2025 — British MP Bob Blackman has submitted an Early Day Motion (EDM) in the UK Parliament calling on the interim government of Bangladesh to prioritise the establishment of a truth and reconciliation commission amidst ongoing political and social instability in the South Asian nation. The EDM, tabled on 16 July, notes the efforts ...

A government minister has said he could send in his own appointees to take over decision-making at an east London council. Local government minister Jim McMahon said he welcomed “early progress” at Tower Hamlets Council after he sent in a group of overseers in to drive improvements. But he said if more improvements aren’t made, he could still choose to ...

Sir Sadiq Khan has been accused of plotting a fresh war on motorists after an official accidentally leaked a document containing a proposal to reduce parking spaces in London. The official was photographed on the tube reading a Transport for London (TfL) document which outlined a series of anti-motorist proposals. Cutting the number of car parking spaces available in the ...