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Aerial view of a row of terraced Victorian houses in Islington on a sunny day.

'Dreamy' London neighbourhood crowned the best borough in the capital

Channel: Property Property October 21, 2025 By Metro Lifestyle reporter
Phone snatching fighting force in Nigeria Taken without permission

Nigeria is using a paramilitary to combat phone thieves - can London learn from it?

Channel: UK UK October 21, 2025 By Brooke Davies
The outside of a detached brick house overgrown with ivy under a blue sky.

London’s ‘cheapest house’ sells for £661,000 — despite viewer choking on the smell

Channel: Property Property October 21, 2025 By Metro Lifestyle reporter
An aerial view of Abbey Wood in London showing a main road with trees either side and the London skyline in the background.

The ‘overlooked’ London area undergoing an £80,000,000 regeneration

Channel: Property Property October 21, 2025 By Metro Lifestyle reporter
Play Video EMBARGOED TO 0001 TUESDAY OCTOBER 21 Undated handout photo issued by King's College Hospital of Parkinson's patient Denise Bacon playing the clarinet while undergoing deep brain stimulation (DBS), enabling surgeons to see - and hear - immediate results. Denise, 65, from Crowborough in East Sussex, experienced instant improvement in her finger movements as the electrical current was delivered to her brain. During a four-hour operation Keyoumars Ashkan, a professor of neurosurgery, performed DBS to help relieve symptoms while Ms Bacon stayed awake. Issue date: Tuesday October 21, 2025. PA Photo. Photo credit should read: Karen Welsh/King's College Hospital/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

Patient plays the clarinet during four hour brain surgery - here's how

Channel: UK UK October 21, 2025 By Sarah Hooper
City Hall transformation plans

London's empty 'glass testicle' will have lift shaft renovated in radical transformation

Channel: UK UK October 21, 2025 By Molly Lee
Play Video A platform full of passengers disembarking a South Western Railway train at Waterloo station in London.

Here's how much money one train company lost last year over fare dodgers

Channel: UK UK October 20, 2025 By Noora Mykkanen
South Western trains carriage explodes into flames at Fulwell station Explosion on our train carriage, right next to where we were sitting.

Fireball erupts from train carriage after 'two bangs' at London station

Channel: UK UK October 20, 2025 By Noora Mykkanen
A collage showing a high rise block of flats on a London street under a blue sky, next to a living room with a pink sofa and door to a balcony.

A woman is selling her £380,000 London home for a fiver

Channel: Property Property October 20, 2025 By Metro Lifestyle reporter
PICTURED Sanchini Thompson A 27-year-old man who was fatally stabbed in south east London has been named as Sanchini Thompson. Police were called to reports of a stabbing in Rushey Green, Lewisham at 03:06hrs on Wednesday, 15 October. Officers attended alongside the London Ambulance Service, who treated Sanchini for stab wounds. Despite their best efforts, he sadly later died in hospital. A post-mortem examination confirmed the cause of death to be a stab wound to the chest. His next of kin are being supported by specialist officers.

First picture of 'devoted' dad knifed to death outside shops

Channel: UK UK October 20, 2025 By Molly Lee
Play Video From left: Energy tycoon Dale Vince, Chris Packham, Megan McCubbin and Feargal Sharkey at the protest (Jonathan Brady/PA)

Chris Packham says 'free the penguins' after 14 years in London aquarium 'bunker'

Channel: UK UK October 19, 2025 By Alex Daniel
Agne Druskienea in a garden.

Mother 'cruelly' stabbed in her east London home 'never stopped giving love'

Channel: UK UK October 20, 2025 By John Dunne
Bishop Climate Wiseman, 46, is greeted by his supporters outside Inner London Crown Court, where he is charged with fraud and unfair trading offences over the selling of 'plague protection kits' with claims a mixture made from oil and red string, was a cure for Covid-19. Picture date: Monday September 13, 2021. PA Photo. See PA story COURTS Plague. Photo credit should read: Kirsty O'Connor/PA Wire

Bishop convicted of fraud over fake Covid cure now sells 'court case protection oil'

Channel: UK UK October 19, 2025 By Herbie Russell
Play Video LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - OCTOBER 18: Protesters march against UK Government's plan to introduce a digital identification card in central in London, United Kingdom on October 18, 2025. The government wants to introduce a digital ID system across the UK, with Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer saying it will ensure the country's 'borders are more secure'. The IDs will not have to be carried day-to-day, but they will be compulsory for anyone wanting to work. (Photo by Ilyas Tayfun Salci/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Thousands protest plans for mandatory digital ID cards in the UK

Channel: Politics Politics October 18, 2025 By Jen Mills
A Eurostar Train At St Pancras Railway Station, London, England

Eurostar reacts to competitor plans to offer cross-Channel trains that aren't from London

Channel: Travel Travel October 20, 2025 By Kristina Beanland
Undated family handout photo issued by Jasmine Yates of Alana Odysseos, a 32-year-old mother of two, who had just found out she was four weeks pregnant with her third child before she died after suffering stab wounds at an address in north-east London. Issue date: Tuesday July 23, 2024. PA Photo. Alana's sister Jasmine Yates, 26, said she will be remembered as a "pure hearted person" and a "brilliant mother". See PA story COURTS Walthamstow. Photo credit should read: Family Handout/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

Pregnant woman killed by abusive boyfriend who had already murdered before

Channel: UK UK October 18, 2025 By Sam Corbishley
James, Harry and Max at their home in Wimbledon, South West London.

What I Own: I bought my £1,450,000 Wimbledon five-bed without ever viewing it

Channel: Property Property October 18, 2025 By Eleanor Noyce
A small stone building with two black doors and signs reading 'male' and 'female' above them.

Fancy pouring £110,000 down the toilet? This East London loo is up for auction

Channel: Property Property October 18, 2025 By Metro Lifestyle reporter
Pepita Garcia Man charged following death of woman in Tottenham A man has been charged with murder and manslaughter as part of an ongoing investigation into the death of a woman in Tottenham last year. On Monday, 13 January, police were called to Reynardson Road, N17 following concern for welfare of a woman inside an address. Officers forced entry to the property and found a woman who had sadly died. The woman was identified as 74-year-old Pepita Sarikecili, who was also known as Pepita Garcia. Police launched an investigation and believe that Pepita had died the previous month. A postmortem revealed her cause of death was blunt force trauma. Dominic Whitton, 41 (22.04.1984) of Reynardson Road, N17 was charged on 22 January with preventing a lawful burial in connection with the investigation and remanded into custody. On Monday, 6 October, Whitton attended Wood Green Crown Court where he was further charged with murder and manslaughter in connection with Pepita?s death. He entered a not guilty plea to all charges and will next appear at Wood Green Crown Court on Friday, 12 December.

Man charged with murdering woman, 74, and leaving her body for a month

Channel: UK UK October 17, 2025 By Brooke Davies
Reporters Molly and Sam at Sumo class with Sunny. Pictured: Group shot - Metro and Sunny. (C) Belinda Jiao 07598931257 www.belindajiao.com jiao.bilin@gmail.com

Everyone has been talking about the Sumo's in London this week - so we gave it a go

Channel: UK UK October 17, 2025 By Samantha Rea

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