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CCTV Image Appeal after Stabbing on Underground train from Vauxhall to Pimlico

Do you know these men?

Detectives are appealing for witnesses after a man was believed to be stabbed on an Underground train between Vauxhall and Pimlico.

Today (Sunday 17 December 2023), at around 8.30am, officers were called to Pimlico Underground …

Tourist arrivals up 20.4% y-o-y in the period January-November 2023

Tourist arrivals in the period January – November 2023 amounted to 3,722,022 compared to 3,091,039 in the corresponding period of 2022, marking an increase of 20.4%, and approaching the annual record of 2019, which had reached 3,976,777.

According to data …

15 month covert police operation sees 22 people jailed for more than 160 years

Detectives from the Met’s Specialist Crime Command carried out a 15 month investigation into an organised crime group’s involvement in the supply of multiple kilos of Class A drugs and firearms.
Officers from the Specialist Crime Command methodically gathered a …

Bicommunal Photography Competition Exhibition on the theme “Faces of Cyprus”

The 5th Bicommunal Photography Competition Exhibition on the theme “Faces of Cyprus”, organised by AKEL and the Left Group in the European Parliament, took place on Friday evening at Chateau Status in the Chateau Status hall in UN-administered buffer zone.…

£10 million funding agreed for Islington’s vital voluntary and community organisations

Islington Council has agreed more than £10 million funding over four years for vital voluntary and community sector organisations.

Islington has always been a place where communities come together, where our diversity is what brings us our strength.

In all, …

Dinosaur encounter in Enfield leads to £160,000 fine

Dinosaur encounter leads to £160,000 fine

A company who organised a ‘Jurassic Encounter’ dinosaur event in Enfield was prosecuted and fined £160,000 at Highbury Magistrates Court on 29 November having been found guilty of three charges related to Health and …

UK’s Sunak warns asylum seekers could ‘overwhelm’ parts of Europe

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Saturday that he would push for global reforms to the asylum system and warned the threat of growing number of refugees could “overwhelm” parts of Europe.

In a speech in Italy, Sunak made …

Missing boy found in France returns to Britain on Saturday, police say

Alex Batty, the British teenager who resurfaced in southern France after disappearing six years ago, returned to Britain on Saturday, local police said.

The boy, who left a spiritualist community in the Pyrenees mountains, disappeared at the age of 11 …

Vaping grows fastest among UK groceries in 2023

Vaping products were the fastest growing category in UK grocery for the second year running in 2023, while sales of cigarettes, cigars and loose tobacco fell sharply, industry data showed.

Britain’s government in October proposed banning younger generations from ever …

A Greek Orthodox monk on Mount Athos, the center of Orthodox monasticism, died at the age of 82 without ever seeing a woman.

He apparently had never seen a car or an airplane, and had never even seen a movie.
Bred and educated in the walled monastery, Tolotos never even once ventured past the gates of the monastery. Throughout all this, a law …