If I could move, I would to a place without a heat network. But I can't while this debt is hanging over me, says Anja Georgiou. The mother lives with her family in a rented flat in the River Gardens development in Greenwich in south-east London where, three years ago, residents were shocked to be presented with a surprise 200,000 bill for heating and hot water.
I am sitting in my office shed, cut off from the house by a driving rain. The misery and boredom of the English winter is, I have to admit, beginning to get to me. I spent January talking about the days getting longer, and used up all my optimism. For the last 10 minutes I've been scrolling through the website of my American home town newspaper, which is full of pictures of the recent snowfall over a foot, with more predicted in the coming days. Extreme weather has a tendency to make me homesick I hate to miss a hurricane.
Britain's only tin mine could end up exporting much of its future production to the United States after the American government signalled it is prepared to provide up to $225 million (£166 million) in financing to revive the historic South Crofty site in Cornwall. Cornish Metals, which is working to bring the South Crofty mine near Camborne back into production, has received a letter of interest from the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Exim),
The number of refugee households who are homeless or at risk of homelessness has surged fivefold in the past four years. Government figures for England reveal a rise from 3,560 in 2021/22 to 19,310 in 2024/25. Charities blame the increase on a "direct result" of government policy, citing the 28-day period newly-recognised refugees get to leave Home Office accommodation - including hotels - as well as faster processing of asylum applications.
Families "enduring everlasting grief" after losing babies due to NHS failings are being sidelined by a rapid review into maternity services, a campaign group has claimed. One woman, whose daughter died in 2022, described how victims are forced to "compress" their experiences into eight minutes, with some re-traumatised by having to choose the most important reasons for their babies' deaths.
Per an alleged recording of his remarks, Gerhard supposedly referred to Ritual Network as "a bunch of gangsters," and also directly named YouTuber Cyber Boi as one of the "influencers" involved in the smear campaign. Cyber Boi is the content creator who was recently threatened with a "formal cease and desist demand" by Gerhard, , following the release of a now-deleted video about ex-Rockstar producer Leslie Benzies and the Epstein files ( Benzies stated this week that he's never met Epstein before).
"Cyclists shouldn't be left on red," Stevenson wrote in an article for news website MyLondon. The traffic light system that prioritises buses contains sensors, so they know when buses are approaching. They can stay green for longer when a bus is approaching, or switch from red to green more quickly if a bus is waiting. "These lights should also allow cyclists to pass through without waiting," Stevenson said.
When I told them what was happening their first question to me was, How much have you had to drink tonight?', they didn't believe me. She told them the car registration, but she said they made no note of anything she mentioned and declined her offer to go the police station the next morning. She said: They told me to forget all about it.
It's devastating what happened to everyone else, absolutely devastating. You can't help thinking, if they had taken me seriously, Vicky could have survived, but certainly if they had found him sooner the five other women would still be here.
According to MyLondon, the tome reveals that King Charles III of England enjoys a soft-boiled egg for breakfast, which sounds completely normal. Less relatable, however, is that he demands seven eggs to be boiled to varying degrees and presented to him so he can test each, find the egg prepared exactly to his standards, and eliminate the rest. One egg to rule them all.
Three teenage burglars who posed as Amazon delivery drivers to steal 3.1million in cryptocurrency were snared just three hours later after posting about it on Snapchat. The then 16 and 17-year-olds videoed themselves driving away from the east London scene in the victim's blue BMW X3. They had travelled from Sheffield before tricking their way into his flat in Hoxton, threatening the occupant with large knives and forcing him to hand over the digital currency, as well as his car keys.
The warning comes from the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR), which said a zero net migration policy would shrink the economy by 3.6 per cent by 2040 and reduce the workforce by around 2.5 million people compared with current forecasts. The result, it argues, would be a £37bn deterioration in the public finances unless offset by higher taxes or cuts to public spending.
This population [of contractors] had been unusually large to enable the provision of information and documents to the public inquiry, handle thousands of remediation claims and the development of systems to move off Horizon,
Those on board were given orange life jackets that appeared to have been stuffed with cotton, which provided ineffective buoyancy. The Cranston inquiry found systemic failings, missed opportunities and inadequate resourcing undermined the UK's maritime search and rescue response on the night of the disaster; HM Coastguard was placed in an intolerable position with chronic staff shortages and limited operational capacity contributing directly to the failure to rescue people in the water.
We cannot begin to put into words how sad we are to have lost Khaleed. He was an extremely loved son, brother, uncle, boyfriend and friend. Khaleed was a good boy who loved his family. He was in his second year at university, and we were so proud of him. One of his main passions was football and he had played since the age of four.
The row of shops (and pub) here used to be known as Butchers' Row as it was lined with, well, butchers of course - and they would hang their meat outside their stores on rows of metal hooks. Most of the buildings have since been redeveloped, but the gap between shops on Aldgate High Street has been there since shortly after WWII. The gap wasn't due to bomb damage, but for some reason, one building was cleared, and later its neighbour as well.
You can feel it in the fishing fleet hauled up on the beach, still part of daily life, and then a short walk away in bold contemporary spaces showing work that speaks far beyond the town. It shows up in events that belong to the people who live there; Jack in the Green spilling through the streets; Pirate Day turning the whole place into a shared act of play;
Lily-May Edwards loves living in north Wales, but she also loves her job at the University of Liverpool. So rather than choosing between the two, she sets her alarm at 05:30 most mornings to make the four-hour round trip to the office. "I love getting up, I love getting ready, physically going somewhere, and feeling like I've got a purpose," said Lily-May, 24.
While the Mail have partly moved with the times, they have also published countless judgmental and narrow-minded stories about us pieces clearly designed to undermine who we are and how we live our lives, Furnish said in a written submission. To know that they were enabled to do this to us through stolen information, and setting private investigators on us, and landline tapping and recording our live telephone calls is an abomination.
It's starting to feel that maybe we shouldn't be seeing this much of this teen because we know what happens to females in the spotlight Brand Beckham may have taken quite a blow to the shins after Brooklyn's scorched-earth moment last month... but the family are still very much standing.
A two-year-old girl was taken to hospital after she was allegedly attacked by two dogs in a park in east London. Officers were called to Raphael Park in Romford at around 12.30pm on Monday following reports that a child had been injured. The girl was taken to hospital where here injuries are not believed to be life-threatening. Two "rottweiler-type dogs" were seized from an address in Romford on Thursday as part of the investigation, Met Police said.
Net zero migration (NZM) would have clear fiscal consequences for the UK economy: lower tax revenues would leave the government needing to raise taxes to close an increasing funding gap over the long-term, according to analysis contained within the National Institute of Economic and Social Research's latest quarterly Economic Outlook. Slower employment growth and a smaller tax base would reduce revenues, increasing the budget deficit by around 0.8 per cent of GDP, equivalent to approximately £37 billion in today's prices, by 2040.
Three more men have been charged over alleged plots to attack two Pakistani dissidents at their UK homes. The trio are variously accused of conspiring assaults at an address in Cambridgeshire and another in Chesham, Buckinghamshire, on Christmas Eve 2025. Asaf Afsar, 40, Mark Regan, 53, and Liam McGarry, 25, were charged on Wednesday in relation to the incidents, the Metropolitan Police said.
Creating a modern, fair and dynamic labour market is central to this Government's plan for growth. We want to make it easier for employers to find the people they need, while ensuring that work pays and feels secure. Through clear guidance, we are giving businesses the practical support they need to understand these changes and get things right first time.
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