Search results for ‘london’
8,034 items found
-
4m
Killing in the capital – London’s latest teenage victim
Last night there were two more deaths on the streets of the capital. That took the total number of killings this year to fifty five. Almost half of the victims were aged under twenty five. The latest to die was 18-year-old Israel Ogunsola. He was stabbed at 8pm last night. He had asked for help from…
-
3m
Violent crime in London claims youngest victim so far this year
A 16-year-old boy who died after he was shot in the face has been named locally as Amaan Shakoor – the youngest murder victim in London this year. The teenager was attacked in east London on Monday night – just minutes after a 17-year-old girl was shot and killed a few miles away while she…
-
9m
What solutions are there to London’s violent crime problem?
Leroy Logan is a former superintendent in the Metropolitan police. He retired in 2013 after 30 years’ service. Sephton Henry was a former gang member in London for 16 years and now works for Gangsline – a charity supporting young people involved in gang culture. And Temi Mwale is the founder of the community organisation…
-
3m
What’s behind London’s rise in violent crime?
The statistics are grim – two teenagers shot and a third teenager stabbed in London in the space of an hour. The reality seems worse – with the local MP stating that although there’s no single cause there has been a big spike in gun and knife crime across the capital and local residents are…
-
2m
Russian businessman with anti-Putin links ‘was murdered’ in London
Russian businessman Nikolai Glushkov was found dead at his home in south west London on Monday. Today counter-terror police said they were treating his death as murder after a post-mortem showed the cause of death as “compression to the neck”. Mr Glushkov was a close associate of the oligarch and arch Putin critic Boris Berezovsky,…
-
2m
London Underground attack fireball video
Footage of the horrifying moment when a fireball ripped through a London Underground carriage last September has been shown to jurors at the Old Bailey. Iraqi asylum seeker Ahmed Hassan is accused of leaving an improvised bomb on a train which then partially exploded at a station in the west of the capital. Today his…
-
5m
Brexit viewed from Derry/Londonderry
Boris Johnson said today the Irish border issue was being used by people hoping to frustrate Britain’s exit from the EU. It comes after a leaked letter from the Foreign Secretary appeared to suggest a hard border there remains a possibility. I have been to Londonderry to hear from people there how they feel about…
-
3m
Two more killed in London stabbings
While America grapples with gun violence, here it is knife crime which is snatching too many young lives, too soon. On another night of knife violence in London, a teenager and another young man were killed less than a mile from each other. It means 16 people have been stabbed to death across the capital…
-
3m
WWII bomb forces closure of London City Airport
Thousands of passengers had their flights and trains cancelled today – after a 500kg world war two bomb was found in the river Thames. London City airport was forced to close and families living within an exclusion zone have been evacuated from their homes as experts from the Royal Navy and police try to remove…
-
5m
Steep increase in fatal stabbings in London in 2017, new figures show
The scale and devastation of knife crime in the capital is laid bare today. New Metropolitan Police figures obtained by Channel 4 News show a steep increase in fatal stabbings in 2017, with the number of teenage victims doubling. Despite both the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police and the Mayor of London promising to tackle…
-
4m
Trump scraps February London visit
President Trump has provoked a fair bit of outrage here too, after he declared he wouldn’t come to London to open the new US embassy next month because it was a “bad deal” and in an “off location”. Downing Street insisted the relationship between the two countries remained “strong and deep”, but London Mayor Sadiq…
-
5m
Conservative London Assembly Member Shaun Bailey: “We need to build more” social housing
Conservative London Assembly Member – Shaun Bailey – who grew up in a council house in Ladbroke Grove, and Aileen Evans, Chief Executive of Grand Union Housing Group discuss social housing.
-
2m
London Zoo reopens after five animals killed in fire
London zoo has reopened following yesterday’s fire which killed several animals. The zoo said that four meerkats which were previously thought to be missing, died along with an aardvark. It’s still unclear what caused the fire.
-
49 seconds
Aardvark and meerkats presumed dead in London Zoo fire
Five animals have died and staff at London Zoo are being treated for shock after a fire broke out.
-
6m
Crisis choir sing Streets of London
As part of our series on homelessness, we talk to the Crisis choir and hear them singing a new version of Ralph McTell’s Streets of London. They’re releasing the single in time for Christmas to raise money.
