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Image copyright @gearyjen Image caption Stranded passengers disembarked a Heathrow Express train due to damage to overhead power cables at Paddington Rail passengers have faced disruption due to damage to overhead power cables near one of London’s busiest stations. Trains between Paddington, Heathrow, Oxford and Maidenhead were severely disrupted due to wires collapsing between Paddington […]

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Some existing laws have been in place since 1847 Taxi licences are being issued behind closed doors to drivers convicted of offences including child sex crimes and reckless driving, the Local Democracy Reporting Service has revealed. The findings follow a government report that claims current taxi and private hire […]

Image copyright Met Police Image caption Sheiku Adams died after falling out of the window of his third-floor flat in Camden A man has died in a fall from a third-floor flat after knife-wielding burglars broke into his home, police said. Sheiku Adams, 49, was pronounced dead in hospital at 23:56 BST on Thursday after […]

Image copyright Google Image caption A 47-year-old man was found with stab wounds at an address in Greyhound Hill, Hendon Three people have been arrested after a fatal stabbing in north London. A 47-year-old man was found with stab wounds at an address in Greyhound Hill, Hendon, at about 23:40 BST on Friday. A woman, […]

Glenn Hoddle was a TV pundit at the 2018 World Cup and was pictured chatting to England players after their win over Colombia Ex-England and Tottenham manager Glenn Hoddle is “responding well” to treatment after being taken to hospital in a serious condition on Saturday. Hoddle was taken ill after appearing as a pundit for […]

Image copyright Met Police Image caption Josie Mullaney, 73, of Hayes, died of her injuries following a four-car crash The husband of a “one in a million” pensioner killed in a major road collision has made a new plea for information 10 years after her death. John Mullaney, 77, lost his wife, Josie, after a […]

Image copyright Met Police Image caption Port, from London, was given a whole life prison term for the murders of four young men between August 2014 and September 2015 The inquests into the deaths of serial killer Stephen Port’s victims will be lead by a judge, it has been announced. The 43-year-old drugged and raped […]

From train drivers to cleaners, there is a range of overnight jobs that need to be done to help keep London prepared for the next day. Samantha Butler is in charge of delivering trains to different locations across the capital overnight. She said the “nightshift community” was like its own separate world.

Image copyright HS2/MOLA Headland Infrastructure Image caption Over 200 archaeologists and specialists are working at the site beside Euston Station Archaeological work to remove 45,000 skeletons from a burial site to make way for HS2 construction has begun. Some 61,000 burials took place at St James’s Gardens between 1788 and 1853, beside what is now […]