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Five years ago, in the depths of the Covid pandemic, a frenzied “race for space” propelled London’s residential property market. City dwellers were falling over themselves to swap one beds in town for detached houses in the ‘burbs with gardens, home studies — and room to breathe. Now London is facing a new property stampede. But this time, remarkably, and against virtually all expert predictions during those work-from-home years of 2020 and 2021, it is office space that is in hottest demand — and worryingly short supply.

A man in his 20s has been arrested as part of a police investigation into the viral “school wars” trend, which encourages pupils to engage in violence.

Londoners with B negative blood types are being urged to donate after the NHS warned that supplies are low, putting increased pressure on medical services.

Detentions at several London schools will be cancelled amid fears children are being encouraged to fight rival pupils on social media.

Hillary Clinton has told Congress she had no knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein’s or Ghislaine Maxwell’s criminal activities while giving testimony as part of a congressional probe into the convicted sex offender.

Buses, taxis and cyclists will be banned from western section of Oxford Street from summer 2026

A charity is lodging an appeal against the High Court’s decision to throw out its legal challenge over trans access to single-sex facilities at Hampstead Heath’s swimming ponds.

Kensington and Chelsea, Hackney and Hammersmith and Fulham reported the lowest uptake of the MMR vaccine among all children - with just five in ten children having received both doses by the age of five.

Specific evidence is rather missing, but the modus operandi of Epstein and the Maxwells are way too similar to how the KGB is historically known to work. There are no moral or financial reasons to think that any of the two sides would want to shy away from such a partnership. On the contrary, it has very evident potential benefits.

A Christian website that published a story about sprinter “Tyson Homosexual” because of its auto-ban on the word “gay” has vowed not to make the same gaffe twice.

A Christian website that published a story about sprinter “Tyson Homosexual” because of its auto-ban on the word “gay” has vowed not to make the same gaffe twice.

An investigation panel found that Dr Martin Whyte’s comments were not ‘intentionally antisemitic’

A 19 year old man named Jed Sheridan was killed by a 20 year old “goth” who was part of this gang he called the “TSE Crew” that went around beating up “chavs”. After this horrible incident the murderer boasted about it saying “don’t worry, it was just another chav”. There was a blog post about his death which had comments, many of them were nasty (source). Sheridan was just walking home with friends and the attack was completely unprovoked. details are graphic so just a warning for those going to read the article. going by many people’s attitudes such as the ones on the blog I linked I suspect people are less bothered by a chav being killed in an unprovoked attack than if it were a different kind of person who is middleclass. regardless of how he looked or what his lifestyle was, his life mattered too. RIP Jed Sheridan 💔

Is it April already?

Would you eat a strawberries and cream sandwich? It sounds a bit odd to me, but strawberry jam works and this isn’t that dissimilar I guess?

Not my generation, but I support the message:

English folk horror Lost In The Garden is among the four winners of the 2024 Nero Book Awards, as its author Adam S Leslie takes home the fiction prize.

English folk horror Lost In The Garden is among the four winners of the 2024 Nero Book Awards, as its author Adam S Leslie takes home the fiction prize.

Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds is set to confirm the Government will consult on easing rules related to the phasing-out of new petrol and diesel cars, the PA news agency understands.

This is an old article, but I’ve just seen this story, so sharing it.

Protesters have covered a portrait of the King with the face of the animated character Wallace from Wallace and Gromit.

A growing number of small businesses are complaining of vastly inflated standing charges on top of their standard energy bills, some as much as 13 times the level of three years ago.

The share of power coming from fossil fuels hit the new low at lunchtime on Monday April 15 and lasted for an hour, climate and energy website Carbon Brief said.

A poodle had to be rescued by specialist firefighters after it became trapped under a home.

More than 480,000 items of litter removed from UK beaches in nationwide survey

Warhammer maker Games Workshop is to pay all its staff a £2,500 Christmas bonus as half-year profits rose to nearly £100 million.

Games Workshop’s remarkable run of success continues, as the Warhammer 40,000 maker’s sales smashed expectations yet again over the summer.