Body-worn camera footage shows the shocking moment a patient spits in the face of a paramedic who is trying to treat him. The video, released by London Ambulance Service, also shows a separate assault by another patient, who is seen throwing a hard scoop stretcher at an ambulance crew inside a hospital. Paramedic James captured … Read more
Review at a glance: ★★★★☆ You’ll not overhear better conversation than in Wiltons, though in other restaurants often you get the choice. Discounting the booths, which in a war-bunkerish way keep the world out and all the secrets in, Wiltons is a place for people who project. Raging ex-wives, judges with oceanic voices, Americans showing … Read more
Outside the Eventim Apollo one regular Wednesday evening, groups are dressed like they’ve just wandered out of a Peter Paul Ruben’s painting. They are twirling and skipping, hand-in-hand across the pedestrian crossing outside Hammersmith station. Tightly laced corsets, billowing skirts and red hair dye is the unofficial uniform for fans of The Last Dinner Party, … Read more
It might have been the moment the snow came down from the O2 ceiling as Paul McCartney sang Wonderful Christmastime. Or when the footage of The Beatles played behind him during Now and Then. Or when he talked about George and did a ukulele version of Something. Or when he duetted virtually with John for … Read more
Comfort came to the UK as a student from Nigeria thinking she was entering a marriage and finishing her schooling — but the schooling never materialised and it soon became clear the marriage was a sham and that she had been a victim of trafficking. Aged 29 and entirely on her own in a new … Read more
Sadiq Khan is facing his final public interrogation of 2024 when he appears at Mayor’s question time on Thursday. The session, the last of 10 this year, is the City Hall equivalent of Prime Minister’s Questions but typically lasts for around three hours – six times longer. Mr Khan faces questions from all 25 members … Read more
A man has been jailed for life after a vicious knife attack on a mother and daughter in their Wandsworth home. The attack occurred on December 4, 2023, when Tito Eleto, 30, forced his way into the victims’ flat after asking the daughter to remove the door chain during a doorstep conversation. Once inside, he … Read more
Water supply across south London is expected to return to normal by lunchtime today after four days of residents suffering low or no water. Efforts to repair the fault at Cheam Water Treatment Works are progressing well according to SES Water and supplies are expected to be restored by lunchtime on December 19. However, some … Read more
Over the next five years, Thames Water bills will increase by more than a third, to an average of £588. According to the regulator Ofwat, the largest water supplier in the UK will be permitted to increase its bills from £436 to £152, or 35 per cent, by 2030. The estimates, which equate to an … Read more
As Louise Roe is hunkering down at home to watch The Holiday this Christmas, she won’t be pining after a slice of country idyll. That’s because five years ago, on returning to the UK after a decade in Los Angeles, the broadcaster and homewares entrepreneur landed in rural Buckinghamshire. Together with her television director husband, … Read more