Going cheap: Boris snaps up German water cannon for London streets
Boris Johnson says he snapped up three German water cannon before getting permission to use them on London’s streets because the price was too good to miss.
8,034 items found
Boris Johnson claims to have delivered record numbers of affordable homes. So why is housing still so expensive in London?
Five banks are fined after it emerges they manipulated foreign exchange rates for nearly six years. The Bank of England has also been dragged into the scandal, amid claims officials knew about it.
On the final day of the poppy art installation at the Tower of London, which has been seen by millions, people explain what the poppies mean to them – and why they bought one.
The area around London’s “Cheesegrater” was closed off this week after a steel nut and bolt fell from the 740-foot skyscraper. But it wasn’t the first time a new City building had caused problems.
Some four million people have flocked to see a crimson tide of ceramic poppies filing the moat of the Tower of London. But should they now be removed as originally intended?
Four men who allegedly planned a terror attack in London carried out “hostile reconnaissance” of a police station and army barracks, Scotland Yard says.
Police shoot dead a man who was threatening a woman with a knife in London. The incident happened at a residential property in Islington.
Police name an elderly woman killed in a suspected beheading in the garden of an Edmonton property as Palmira Silva.
This year’s Worldcon is the biggest ever, with 10,000 sci-fi fans coming to London. But with shows like Game of Thrones getting cult status (and investment to match) geeks are coming in from the cold.
In a speech on the 20th anniversary of his becoming Labour leader, Tony Blair devotes half a minute to the situation in Gaza. We asked if London is the place for the Middle East quartet envoy to be?
As Tony Blair prepares to deliver a speech marking the 20th anniversary of his becoming Labour leader, Michael Crick asks him why he is in London and not in the Middle East.
Thousands of protesters march through London calling for an end to Israeli military action in Gaza and demanding “justice and freedom” for Palestine.
Cranes on the skyline, MP scandals, a post-work pint. London in the 1960s? Or 2014? Channel 4 News gets confused by Paul Kelly’s latest film, How We Used to Live.
Boris Johnson says he snapped up three German water cannon before getting permission to use them on London’s streets because the price was too good to miss.
Never mind the competition: Brazil’s extreme weather will be one of England’s biggest tests at the World Cup 2014. But now fans can get a taste of Brazil’s climate themselves in the heart of London.