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The Met Police told the Standard its officers responded to a group of Youth Demand activists blocking Tower Bridge causing serious disruption at around 6.30pm on Saturday. The protest group shared footage of protesters wearing keffiyehs and holding a banner reading stop arming Israel and chanting we demand reparations. In the background, green smoke from a flare covered the famous bridge and several activists can be seen waving Palestine flags.

Google A man has been charged with raping a woman who was attacked in central London, the Met Police has said. A 19-year-old called the force at about 03:30 BST on Thursday to report that she had been raped on Euston Road in Camden. Officers attended the location, which was near a hospital, and a crime scene was put in place.

A military horse which bolted through central London after being startled by construction work has retired. Images of the frightened animals were broadcast worldwide. Service personnel were thrown from their horses when the animals got loose. The horses smashed into vehicles, including a double-decker bus, and caused a number of injuries. Ambulance crews treated four people in three separate incidents in Buckingham Palace Road, Belgrave Square and at the junction of Chancery Lane and Fleet Street, in the space of 10 minutes.

The T20 squad departed for New Zealand on Friday, with the four men among them who have also been selected for the Ashes Harry Brook, Jacob Bethell, Brydon Carse and Zak Crawley knowing that only injury will bring them home within the next three months (and even then for no more than 10 days, before they depart again this time for Sri Lanka and from there a T20 World Cup in India).

The latest KPMG and REC, UK Report on Jobs: London survey highlighted a deteriorated hiring landscape in September, following signs of recovery in the previous month. Both new permanent placements and billings received from the employment of short-term workers fell at a stronger pace than observed in August. Redundancies continued to fuel marked expansions in the supply of candidates. Recruiters in the capital also reported a decrease in open vacancies.

A spokesperson for Met Police said: Police were called at 19:40hrs on Wednesday, 8 October to reports of a stabbing on Waterloo Millenium Green, SE1. Officers attended, and a man, aged 25, was being treated by the London Ambulance Service. He was taken to hospital and his condition is believed to be life-changing. A crime scene was put in place and enquiries are ongoing. There have been no arrests at this stage.

A man is fighting for his life after being shot by Metropolitan Police officers who entered a London property by force. Scotland Yard were called to an address in Walthamstow at 10am on Friday to reports of a man with a gun. The suspected gunman allegedly made threats to kill at the property on Stow Crescent near Banbury Reservoir. Trained negotiators were dispatched and at 2pm officers entered the property and discharged their weapons.

Google A man is in a life-threatening condition after being shot by Metropolitan Police officers who entered a property in north-east London by force. The force said officers were called to an address in Stow Crescent, Walthamstow, at about 10:00 BST to reports of a man with a firearm making threats to kill. Trained negotiators were called to the scene, and at about 14:00 officers entered the property and discharged their weapons.

It's been good. It's obviously early days. Our attitude and our mentality in the first two games has been good but it's a long season and we've got to continue that, and when games have some adversity in them, we've got to be able to cope well with that when those situations arise,

The train operator, Greater Anglia, will be nationalised on Sunday, making it the third train company to enter public ownership under the government's nationalisation plans. The legal transfer will take place at 2am on Sunday 12th October 2025. From that point, half of England's regulated train companies will be in public ownership from this weekend, joining c2c, Northern, TransPennine Express, Southeastern, LNER and South Western Railway, which are currently operated by DfT Operator Limited (DFTO).

An investigation is under way after a Ryanair flight battling with high wind speeds during storm Amy last week landed at Manchester airport with just six minutes of fuel left in its tanks. The pilots had been taking passengers from Pisa in Italy to Prestwick in Scotland on Friday evening, but wind speeds of up to 100mph meant they were unable to land. After three failed attempts to touch down, the pilots of Ryanair flight FR3418 issued a mayday emergency

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We are keen to establish the circumstances surrounding this incident and are concerned for the welfare of the young woman involved, who we believe is aged between 28 and 32 and been unable to identify. Were you in or near Millharbour Road, E17 around the time of the incident and saw anything suspicious, or do you have any CCTV or mobile phone footage that will assist us with our enquiries? If so, please come forward by calling 101 and referencing 01/8032774/25.

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There's an airlock where door locks were operated remotely to prevent hostage taking. The spur on the HSU is small, with around eight cells, low ceilings and fluorescent lights. We used to call it the submarine, recalls McAvoy. There's no real natural sunlight. One of the wings hasn't got any windows at all. It's very, very claustrophobic. There was an exercise yard, but the sky was blocked out by security wire.

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On a number of measures, equity market valuations appear stretched, particularly for technology companies focused on Artificial Intelligence, it said. This, when combined with increasing concentration within market indices, leaves equity markets particularly exposed should expectations around the impact of AI become less optimistic.

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