Ariana Grande’s decision to issue a statement to People announcing she would “step away from the public eye” after her tour came as a surprise to some members of Sunday in the Park With George, which Grande also withdrew from. Team members of the London musical were only given hours to prepare their own statement…
The London Fire Brigade said 14 engines were used to tackle the grass fire, near Lea Road in Waltham Abbey, which is near Waltham Cross. Just after 17:00 it said the fire was now under control. The LFB reported that at the height of the fire, about 14 hectares (35 acres) of grassland was alight….
Six twentysomethings in East London have built what they say is the anti-San Francisco hacker house. The goal is a “holistic improvement in life,” rather than “12 weeks, Demo Day is coming,” Rowan Aldean, 26, explained. Intrigued, I spent an afternoon visiting the house, meeting its residents, and doing a vibe check. I arrived after…
Zadie Smith, Patti Smith and Mustafa are among the star names lined up to be interviewed by Dua Lipa, as the pop star reveals her curation of this year’s London Literature festival at the Southbank Centre. The festival, now in its 19th year, will run from 21 October to 1 November, with the Brit award-winning…
Campaigners say the loss of a much-loved football pitch in east London to a housebuilding programme will be a huge blow to the local community. Hackney’s Keith Miller sports pitch is known locally as the “San Siro of east London” – for non-football fans, that’s the famous Milan stadium that is one of the biggest…
A humanitarian worker in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been medically evacuated to the UK after a potential healthcare‑related exposure to Ebola. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said the individual, who is a UK resident and has not been named, has no symptoms, and the move is purely precautionary. The individual remains well…
Around 125 firefighters were called to a fire affecting homes, gardens, sheds and a railway embankment in Walthamstow, east London. London Fire Brigade (LFB) said two rest centres had been set up locally for impacted residents. It said it received the first of more than 100 calls to the incident near Vallentin Road and Shernhall…
Riders wearing Taylor Swift-inspired outfits have completed a 300km bike ride in 24 hours for a seven-year-old girl. The Ride for Rori saw them cycling non-stop from the Arc de Triomphe in Paris to Marble Arch in London. For the past 20 months, Rori, from Appleton in Oxfordshire, has been battling cancer and just finished…
Published on 01/07/2026 – 17:41 GMT+2•Updated 18:41 Up to nine hours of waiting and more than 75,000 people in the queue. Booking opened on Wednesday 1 July for the Bayeux Tapestry exhibition in London. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The British Museum, which will host the textile masterpiece, had warned visitors that its website was likely to be…
He added: “Now it takes hours for it to percolate through each dam and it’s worked. The second winter that they were here, there was no flooding downstream. “Third winter which has just passed, no flooding has occurred in that targeted zone downstream.” Beavers, nature’s engineers, were hunted to extinction in Britain centuries ago, prized…
