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The walkout will begin at 12.01 am on March 5 and end at 11.59 pm on March 6, with union members stating that essential safety functions, such as vessel navigation and emergency response, will be maintained to ensure safety during the strike. The RMT said workers will continue to carry out duties necessary to ensure vessel safety, including maintaining moorings and gangways.

On Sunday, a passenger might glance at the driver in the rear view mirror and ask the usual: "Good weekend, mate? Get up to much?" For 37-year-old Bilal Fawaz, the answer could be a little different than the usual traffic complaints or remarks about the drizzle. "I became a British champion. And then I drove this Uber," he plans to say, using the same casual tone he might use to discuss a bottleneck on the North Circular.

London fashion week was probably the last public place King Charles III wanted to be on Thursday, admiring the suits and costumes that no one he knows would dream of buying, and making light conversation with designers he would have difficulty in recognising at a royal garden party. Charles must have been contemplating the crumbling of all his plans and hopes for his reign.

The UK's telecoms regulator has named and shamed the companies it receives the most customer complaints about, with certain brands cropping up more than others. EE, TalkTalk, and Vodafone generated the most vitriol about fixed broadband, according to Ofcom. For landlines it was TalkTalk, Sky Mobile got the most for pay-monthly mobile, and EE again topped pay TV. This covers complaints to the authority during the quarter from July to September last year (Q3 2025), relative to the size of the telecom operators' customer bases.

"Peckham Rye is a busy area - densely populated with residents, pedestrians, public transport users and drivers which means there is a potential for witnesses. "We would like to speak to anyone who was in the Peckham Rye area, particularly Rye Lane, on Saturday evening between 18:00hrs and 19:30hrs. If you have any doorbell or dashcam footage from this time in the area, please contact us too.

The bishop of Lincoln has been arrested on suspicion of sexual assault. Lincolnshire police confirmed that a 68-year-old man was arrested as part of an ongoing investigation following an allegation that a man was sexually assaulted between 2018 and 2025. The Right Rev Stephen Conway has been released on conditional bail. Earlier, the diocese of Lincoln confirmed that the bishop had been suspended from his duties.

Bus, coach and minibus registrations in the UK increased 10.4 percent in 2025 to 9,259 units, with zero-emission vehicles accounting for 27.3% of the total. The UK market closed 2025 at its highest annual level since 2008, according to data released by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders ( SMMT). As mentioned, a total of 9,259 new buses, coaches and minibuses were registered during the year, up from 8,390 units in 2024, as reported by SMMT.

Twelve activists linked to the Palestine Action group who were charged with breaking into the British site of an Israel-linked defence firm have been released on bail. There were tears of joy at London's Central Criminal Court, better known as the Old Bailey, as the 12 prisoners, including hunger strikers Teuta Hoxha, Kamran Ahmed, Qesser Zuhrah and Heba Muraisi, were released on Friday.

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Lauren Goodger, 39, Yazmin Oukhellou, 31, Rebecca Gormley, 27, Biggs Chris, 33, Jamie Clayton, 34, Scott Timlin, and Eva Zapico, 27, have all admitted breaking the law when acting as so-called finfluencers. They urged their Instagram followers to sign up to an account offering FX trading tips, Southwark Crown Court heard, despite having no qualifications or authorisation from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).

With pre-Cheltenham purdah fast approaching, the Ladbrokes Trophy Handicap Chase at Kempton on Saturday could well be the most competitive betting heat for the next two-and-a-half weeks and Emmet Mullins's decision to field two runners in the 13-strong field adds a further layer of complexity to the puzzle. Mullins has a well-earned reputation for sliding contenders into handicaps at Cheltenham and Aintree on very competitive marks, but his Kempton record three wins from five runners is not too shabby either.

We received a report at 12.45pm on 20 February of a man on board a train from Brighton with a firearm. Sussex Police officers met the train at Gatwick Airport, and arrested a man in possession of two imitation firearms. BTP officers are investigating.

The consultancy co-founded by Peter Mandelson has collapsed into administration, after a number of clients cut ties with the company over the former ambassador's relationship with the convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Global Counsel, which Mandelson co-founded in 2010, said on Friday that it had stopped trading and its staff in the UK were being made redundant. The London-based company employs about 100 people, the vast majority of whom are based in the UK.

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For more than 10 hours after the news broke that detectives had taken the unprecedented step to arrest Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, there was total silence from police and the former prince himself. Then at 7pm, news that he had been released from a police station in Norfolk emerged, accompanied by a paparazzi-style image of the former prince slumped in the back of a car. The image landed on front pages across the globe.

Growing up outside Manchester, I learned early that there's a stark difference between having money and knowing how to make things last. My dad worked factory shifts while my mum juggled retail hours, and our house ran on an unspoken rule: if something still worked, you didn't replace it. Last month, I visited a friend in Belgravia who was renovating his kitchen. As we chatted over coffee, workers hauled out perfectly functional appliances that looked barely used.

Two people have been charged with murder following the death of a three year old boy from south-east London in January, the Met Police have said. Isiayah Henry, from Woolwich, died on 19 January after he was admitted to the hospital with serious injuries earlier in the month. Following an appearance at Woolwich Crown Court on Friday, Tanisha Henry, 28, and Mikael Williams, 30, were charged with murder and causing/allowing the death of a child.

Five European nations France, Poland, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Italy (the E5 nations) have launched a new programme to develop low-cost air defence systems and autonomous drones. Announced on Friday, the initiative leverages Ukrainian expertise from four years of war against Russia, forming part of wider European efforts to bolster border security, including a proposed "drone wall" to detect and intercept drones violating airspace. Both Moscow and Kyiv possess advanced drone warfare capabilities, with battlefield innovations from the conflict reshaping modern tactics.

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