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Martin Lewis shares five-digit code to 'slash your mobile's cost' to £3 a month

Money January 21, 2026 By Jessica Lindsay

Close up of a man's phone, placed on a bench next to him. The sky is blue, there is greenery in the background, it is light an he wears a suit.

Fare dodgers, shoplifting and phone theft: Readers debate safety in London

Letters January 15, 2026 By Letters Editor

A blue background with old-school Nokia phones and a purple smartphone in the foreground.

I got on top of my screentime addiction with this nostalgic phone hack

Health January 15, 2026 By Eleanor Noyce

Corporate, man and reading with phone on train for travel, check location and public transport. Male person, window and mobile app for commute schedule, metro service and social media on journey trip

Should phones be banned from public transport?

Letters January 8, 2026 By Letters Editor

A man wearing headphones on the Tube, looking around at other passengers

We spoke to people who don’t wear headphones to find out why

Travel January 5, 2026 By Courtney Pochin

Agiimaa Oyungerel found her phone, and four others, hidden in the dirt in a Lewisham park. Pictured is Ms Oyungerel and the phones she recovered.

Phone snatching victim tracks down stash of stolen devices buried in London flowerbed

UK December 24, 2025 By William Hallowell

Emergency update issued affecting millions of phones

UK December 19, 2025 By Sam Courtney-Guy

W8media. W8media Sir Mark Peter Rowley . Sir Mark Peter Rowley Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service gives a talk about the new crackdown on illegal e-bikes and electric scooters throughout the capital and battling the crime figures. A heavy police presence at Cambridge circus with over 60 officers stopping and checking e-bikes, any found to be illegal are seized and crushed-pictured 30 bikes by the bottom of the met police xmas tree by Scotland Yard. 05/12/2025.

Police are jumping on powerful e-bikes to beat crooks at their own game

UK December 9, 2025 By John Dunne

People sitting inside a Central Line Tube train on the London Underground.

'Backdoor browsing' is the commuter guilty pleasure none of us can resist

Travel December 1, 2025 By Charlie Sawyer

People walk past the front of Cinderella's Castle at the Magic Kingdom Park at Walt Disney World on April 3, 2025, in Orlando, Florida. (Photo by Gary Hershorn/Getty Images)

Disney boss tells people to stop doing this one thing at their theme parks

Tech November 30, 2025 By Jen Mills

Prince George of Wales attends a military procession

Prince William divides opinion with his parenting choices for Prince George

UK November 12, 2025 By Molly Lee

Prince George of Wales attends a military procession

Prince George is deprived of a smartphone - but is he too young?

UK November 11, 2025 By Molly Lee

McDonald's rolls out location-tracking order system across the UK

Food November 18, 2025 By Courtney Pochin

EMBARGOED TO 0001 MONDAY NOVEMBER 10Undated handout photo of Flossie McShea, 17 from Devon, who has joined a mother-of-three and two fathers seeking to legally challenge government guidance on phones in schools. Miss McShea and Katie Moore, 43, have added their support to Will Orr-Ewing and Pete Montgomery's claim for a judicial review which seeks to have smartphones completely banned in schools. Miss McShea, joined as a claimant because she feels the Department for Education (DfE) has failed to protect her and other children from harms inflicted from phones during the school day. Issue date: Monday November 10, 2025. PA Photo. 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.

Teen calls for phone ban in all UK schools after she saw beheading videos in Year 7

UK November 10, 2025 By Molly Lee

FOR METRO 2025-11-06, London UK: Metropolitan Police ???????Interceptors???????? conduct an arrest after a pursuit through West London today as part of the Metropolitan Police????????s Operation Baselife. The elite police officers in the Tactical Pursuit and Containment (TPAC) are highly trained to engage in high-speed pursuits to stop criminal activity.

Inside huge phone snatching raid where hundreds of suspects are arrested

UK November 10, 2025 By John Dunne

Woman looks sad

'I was scammed out of nearly £50,000 by someone I met on FitBit'

Tech November 11, 2025 By Josh Milton

Around seven billion phone audio messages are sent worldwide every day

Ideal length of WhatsApp voice-note after it's revealed most of us don't listen to...

Tech November 7, 2025 By William Hallowell

New 'SMS blaster' fraud that can target thousands with spam texts in seconds

How a new 'SMS blaster' can target your phone and steal your bank details in seconds

UK October 17, 2025 By Sam Corbishley

McDonald's confirms major change to the way you order — by tracking your location

Food November 11, 2025 By Courtney Pochin

McDonald's at Brighton Marina, England

McDonald’s is making a major change to the way that you order

Food October 16, 2025 By Courtney Pochin