Tag: Evening Standard

Daily MailHundreds of police officers swooped on addresses across London and the Home Counties yesterday in an operation aimed at smashing one of Britain’s most notorious crime gangs. Senior members…

Evening StandardA suspected member of a notorious North London gang was arrested in his £2.5 million Clerkenwell townhouse today as 200 Met officers burst into 25 addresses in the capital…

Evening StandardTom Daley is now based at the Aquatic Centre Dennis Hone, chief executive of the London Legacy Development Corporation, said: “This is an exciting moment in the legacy of…

The GuardianWong Kei in Wardour Street, famously the rudest restaurant in London, is being refurbished. It will reopen on 10 March. The menu is unchanged; the main renovation has been…

Evening StandardHe commits Labour to develop a “next generation of new towns” similar to Milton Keynes where aspirational Britons can raise families while working in the booming South-East. He also…

Express.co.ukDAY THREE of our exclusive live feed from London Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2014 and the celebrity action is finally hotting up. Cara Delevingne has launched a range of gorgeous handbags…

New York Daily NewsLONDON — Strong winds that pummeled Britain killed a taxi driver, whose car was crushed by falling chunks of masonry from a building, and an elderly man…

MetroA woman has died after part of a building collapsed on to the car she was driving in central London. The incident happened at roughly 11pm last night on High…

Evening StandardResearch commissioned by this newspaper reveals the remarkable scale of the “no lights on” phenomenon as London faces the worst housing crisis in its history, with 800,000 people on…

Evening StandardTransport for London wants to scrap “heritage” route 9 that runs the vintage buses every 20 minutes during the day between Kensington High Street and Trafalgar Square. This would…

Evening StandardThe poll of just over 1,000 businesses of fewer than 50 staff was carried out by YouGov for the Mayor’s promotional body London & Partners. Its chief executive Gordon…

ITV NewsEven before the the current flooding, a significant number of homes in London’s 32 boroughs were at ‘high risk’ of flooding. Figures compiled by the London Assembly Environment Committee…

Entertainment WeeklySeven years after putting the finishing touches on her Harry Potter books, J.K. Rowling is having second thoughts about romantically pairing Hermione with Ron. Some fans of the books…

Evening Standard“Medics from the London Ambulance Service also attended and the woman was taken to Royal London Hospital with burns injuries. “Officers are now working to establish how she came…

BBC NewsBuckingham Palace should be opened to more paying visitors when the Queen is not in residence to fund improvements to the royal estate, MPs have said. Margaret Hodge, chairwoman…

Evening StandardMayor Boris Johnson said: “These incredible figures prove that London is without doubt the greatest city on the planet. With so many fascinating museums, the best theatre scene in…

BBC NewsFormer miners’ union leader Arthur Scargill tried to use laws introduced by Margaret Thatcher to buy a council flat in London, the BBC has found. In 1993 he applied…

Evening StandardCommuters travelling to London from Dover or Northampton became reluctant members of the “£5,000 club” as season tickets broke the £5,000-a-year barrier for the first time, while Swindon commuters…

Evening StandardAt Selfridges, there were separate queues for different brands – with security guards on hand to help manage the crowd before doors were thrown open at 9am. Eyal Keden,…

Evening StandardLondon weather High winds: a commuter struggles on a bridge across the Thames The Met Office said there was a risk of flooding as heavy rain falls on saturated…

London boy, 13, is UK’s youngest Scrabble championEvening StandardThe schoolboy from Highgate, north London, said: “I love words, writing and reading but more than anything I love the strategy of…

Evening StandardHowever as gale force winds hit central London, the plastic covering bore the brunt of it and spilled out thousands of foam pellets across the pavement. Snow globe: The…

BBC NewsMichael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale have been jailed for murdering Fusilier Lee Rigby in Woolwich seven moths ago. While much is known about Adebolajo, little has been said about…

Daily MailThe sign language interpreter at Nelson Mandela’s memorial has been accused of being ‘a fake’ because he was not signing properly. The man was standing on the stage during…