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    Channel: UK UK 4 hours ago By Noora Mykkanen
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Play Video Ten fire engines and around 70 firefighters are attending a fire at an industrial site on Beamway in #Dagenham.This is a very visible fire and is producing a lot of smoke. Please keep windows and doors closed if you are in the area.

Plumes of smoke darken London skyline for miles after huge fire

Channel: UK UK 2 hours ago By Danny Rigg
Izaiah Smith drowned after going swimming in southeast London park.

First picture of 15-year-old who drowned while swimming in London park lake

Channel: UK UK 4 hours ago By Noora Mykkanen
Passengers at Gatwick Airport security scanners on the August bank holiday weekend.

Gatwick Airport makes change to liquid rules just in time for Easter holidays

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Killer gouged out pensioner's eye and beat him to death with his own walking stick

Killer gouged out pensioner's eye and beat him to death with his own walking stick

Channel: UK UK 1 day ago By Sam Corbishley
?? Licensed to London News Pictures. 05/04/2025. London, UK. A police tent is set near swimming lake in Beckenham. Emergency services were called shortly after 3 p. m. on Friday the 4th to Beckenham Place Park in south-east London, after a 16-year-old boy went missing following difficulties in a lake. . Photo credit: Marcin Nowak/LNP

Boy, 15, dies after getting into difficulty in lake at London park

Channel: UK UK 1 day ago By Katie Boyden

Who is Banksy? After nine mysterious murals pop up in London

Channel: UK UK 5 hours ago By Danny Rigg
A NatWest bank manager spent over eight years stealing ??344,000 from the cashpoints machines at his City branch, a court heard John Toms, 44, had exclusive access to ATMs and helped himself to cash at the Moorgate branch between January 2016 and April 2024. Toms moved switched money from elsewhere in the branch to cover the thefts before quarterly checks were carried out by senior members of staff, Southwark Crown Court heard.

Bank manager stole £344,000 from his branch's ATM

Channel: UK UK 2 days ago By Sarah Hooper

Map shows where to see Banksy’s best graffiti in London after new artwork found

Channel: UK UK 2 days ago By Sarah Hooper
York Hall, 1929. Opening of York Hall, 5 November. Guests at opening of Baths including Mayor WC Chandler and his wife, Duke and Duchess of York (later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth), Prime Minister James Ramsey MacDonald, Mayors of Hackney and Shoreditch, Rector, Architect, MP, Town Clerks, Mace Bearers, and Baths Committee Chairpersons, etc

Inside London's newly re-opened 96 year old 'people’s spa'

Channel: UK UK 2 days ago By Sarah Hooper
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Chef-cooked meal plan service Calo launches in London and shoppers love 'convenient' meals

Channel: Food Food 2 days ago By Maisie Bovingdon

Mystery after new 'Banksy' artwork appears overnight in London park

Channel: UK UK 2 days ago By Luke Alsford

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Colourful London townhouses in Greenwich, London with Canary Wharf in the background.

Map reveals the most gentrified London neighbourhoods of the last 15 years

Channel: Property Property 2 days ago By Eleanor Noyce
Multi-colored vibrant row of terraced houses in Notting Hill, London, UK.

The hidden in plain sight messages you'll find on houses in London

Channel: Property Property 2 days ago By Eleanor Noyce

Students 'no longer wearing skirts' after secret camera found at university

Channel: UK UK 2 days ago By Anna McAlinden
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Influencer sues surgeon and claims 'overly large' breasts ruined her career

Channel: UK UK 4 days ago By Jasper King
Leo Welby custody image.

Teenager pleads guilty to terror offences after sharing Islamic State propaganda

Channel: UK UK 4 days ago By Jasper King
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