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Hop across the river to Canary Wharf to see the tenth edition of Canary Wharf’s FREE Winter Lights festival, running from Tuesday 20 January to Saturday 31 January. The Winter Lights festival showcases 16 exceptional light artworks from artists and studios around the world. Canary Wharf will be transformed into an open-air exhibition and is free for the public to ...

The Mayor of London has vowed to ‘turn the tide’ on rising levels of homelessness in the capital as figures show rough sleeping has increased by 63 per cent since he took office. Sir Sadiq Khan said he was determined to prevent people being forced to sleep on the streets “at source” with a strategy that focuses on prevention and ...

A protester has climbed on to the balcony of the Iranian embassy in west London as hundreds gathered outside the building, waving flags and shouting anti-government slogans. The Metropolitan Police said two arrests had been made at the protest and that officers were also seeking another individual for trespass. Anti-government protests erupted in Iran on 28 December, with two human ...

LONDON, Jan 8 : Human Rights Watch (HRW) warned Thursday that the UK has “severely restricted the right to protest” in recent years and was expanding “repressive measures” against peaceful demonstrators. A report titled “‘Silencing the Streets’: The Right to Protest Under Attack in the UK,” comes a few weeks after Swedish activist Greta Thunberg was arrested and then released ...

  In recognition of his significant contribution to building the Bangladeshi community in Britain and his notable role in social service and journalism on the international stage, Mohammad Mizanur Rahman (Mizan) is being awarded the Expatriate Honour Award 2025. The award will be presented on 27 December at Kazi Nazrul Auditorium in an event organised by the Sylhet District Administration. ...

Reform’s new London mayoral candidate has been accused of “talking down” the UK’s capital, after she said that people “pity” Londoners. Laila Cunningham, a former senior crown prosecutor and a Reform Westminster city councillor, used a central London press conference to paint a picture of the capital as a crime-ridden metropolis, billing herself as “a new sheriff in town” who ...

London will struggle to build its target figure of 88,000 new homes every year for the next decade unless two major rail projects are given the green light, the Deputy Mayor for Housing has said. Tom Copley said the next London Plan will factor in the government’s request – part of a wider target for 1.5million new homes in the ...

The fee will be £8 for up to five minutes, then £1 per additional minute, with a maximum stay of 10 minutes. London City Airport said Blue Badge holders would be exempt, and the fee for black cabs would be included in the meter fare, in line with Transport for London’s agreement with other major airports. The east London airport ...

Six firefighters have been injured after two fire engines they were travelling in collided in central London, the London Fire Brigade (LFB) has said. The incident happened at about 22:17 GMT on Saturday at the junction of Farringdon Road on Clerkenwell Road. LFB assistant commissioner Pat Goulbourne said the fire engines were both responding to an incident in Islington which ...

A teenager who went to two schools in the UK is believed to be among the people missing after a devastating fire at a Swiss ski resort that killed at least 40 people and injured 119 others. Charlotte Niddam previously attended Immanuel College in Hertfordshire and the Jewish Free School in north-west London, according to reports. The Jewish Free School ...