There’s a joke that Croydon is so far, you need to take a flight to get there. And back in the day, that might have been an option. That’s because the area had one of the most iconic airports in the ...

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Metropolitan Police have charged Indian-origin individuals, Manpreet Jatana (34) and Jaskiret Singh Uppal (36), with the murder of 3-year-old Penelope Chandrie. The toddler was found deceased at a ...

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Pixie Geldof recommends cafes in Haggerston, vintage stores in Stoke Newington, and book shops in Chelsea as her favourite places in London. I grew up here and then when I left home, I moved to a flat ...

Donald Trump and his wife Melania last week left their home territory for a State Visit to the UK, where they were feted by the Royal Family with frankly mind-blowing levels of pomp and spectacle. Now ...

They are the surviving relics from bygone eras that are now surrounded by modern London. The latest example is the Grade I listed tower of All Hallows Staining Church, which engineers have balanced on ...

A 700-year-old building suspended on stilts is not your typical City of London sight. However, that’s what is currently on show in the Square Mile this week, as a very, very old church near Fenchurch ...

Ethiopian national Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu was found guilty of assaulting a 14-year-old girl and a woman in Epping, a town near London. An Ethiopian asylum seeker was jailed for 12 months on ...

The gifting ceremony of a century-old Māori pou to the British Council took place on Thursday morning UK time at the British Council’s head office in London. Photo / David Poultney A century-old Māori ...

A badly crushed cranium unearthed decades ago from a riverbank in central China that once defied classification is now shaking up the human family tree, according to a new analysis. Scientists ...