Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionFootage posted online showed Sead Kolasinac fighting off an attacker A second man has admitted trying to rob Arsenal footballers Mesut Özil and Sead Kolasinac in a moped ambush. Jordan Northover, 26, pleaded guilty at Harrow Crown Court to attempting to steal watches from the pair in […]
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Image copyright Theo Christelis Image caption One of three London billboards featuring Year 3 schoolchildren A major outdoor art exhibition by an Oscar-winning artist has gone on display on billboards across London. Turner Prize-winner and film-maker Steve McQueen’s billboards show class photographs of thousands of children from the capital’s schools. The 613 posters across London’s […]
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Image copyright Reuters Image caption Huge waves batter the breakwater in Lyme Regis harbour in Dorset All passenger services into and out of Dover have been suspended because of high winds. It comes as the Met Office issued a yellow weather warning for wind along the South East and East coast. Ferry operators DFDS and […]
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Lee Hoos has been Queens Park Rangers chief executive since 2015 QPR chief executive Lee Hoos says allegations of racist abuse against his club’s players have been “swept under the carpet” by Uefa and Fifa. Hoos says the Championship club are still awaiting a decision 10 weeks after their Under-18s side walked off the field […]
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Image copyright @999London Image caption The officer was taken to hospital after he was hit by the car at about 11:30 GMT A police officer has been hit by a car which had been pulled over in an “intelligence led stop” in Tottenham. The vehicle was stopped by armed police in White Hart Lane at […]
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Image copyright Jamal Sarhan Image caption Robbers drove a car into the side of the jewellery shop Members of the public caught and held on to a suspect running away from an armed raid on a jewellery shop. The owner of the shop, in west London, said he feared for his life when men armed […]
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Martha Thomas signed for West Ham from Le Havre this summer West Ham United striker Martha Thomas has been called up by Scotland Women for the first time. The Dorset-born 23-year-old qualifies for England and United States but is in the 23-strong squad for the Euro 2021 qualifier in Albania on 8 November. There is […]
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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionDet Ch Insp Noel McHugh explains how he managed to track Shane O’Brien A killer once dubbed one of Britain’s most wanted fugitives has been jailed for at least 26 years. Shane O’Brien, 31, evaded police for three-and-a-half years after he slashed Josh Hanson’s neck in Hillingdon, […]
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Image copyright LDRS Image caption A group of 453 artefacts are due to go on display at a museum next year Ancient weapons discovered on a building site will go on display at the Museum of London Docklands next April. The group of 453 artefacts found in Havering, east London, is the third largest ever […]
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Image copyright PA Wire Extinction Rebellion protests continued in central London despite police banning the group’s climate change demonstrations in the capital. Activists blocked Oxford Circus with a wooden pyramid structure and descended on Westminster before moving to Trafalgar Square. One man, who was dressed up as Boris Johnson, scaled the scaffolding surrounding Big Ben. […]
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