The Game Awards 2024 took place in Los Angeles on Thursday evening. Astro Bot came out on top for wins, and during the ceremony, the first trailer for the heavily teased new CD Projekt Red game The Witcher 4 was released. For everything you need to know, we’re joined by The London Standard’s Culture and … Read more
A criminology student accused of the murder of Amie Gray on Bournemouth beach told police in interview that he “blacked out” at the time of the fatal attack. Nasen Saadi also told detectives he had an interest in true crime, unsolved cases and horror movies. The 20-year-old, from Croydon, south London, is on trial at Winchester … Read more
Fearne Cotton has confirmed that she and Jesse Wood have split after 10 years of marriage. The presenter, 43, took to social media on Friday to share the sad news with her friends and fans. Posting a statement on Instagram Stories, she penned: “It is with a heavy heart that I let you all know … Read more
A home in Welling has once again been transformed into a sparkling winter wonderland to raise money for clean water projects in Gambian villages. Archbishop Jonathan Blake has been delighting his neighbours with elaborate Christmas light displays on Danson Crescent since 2002. Since 2018, he has used his festive decorations to fundraise for water access … Read more
Sandwiches didn’t ask to enter the culture war. They are inanimate objects, a humble lunch option since John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich, invented the concept in 1762. The influence has spread from Kent and sandwiches are increasingly filling news copy from the rising prices of the tuna cob at Pret a Manger to … Read more
Britain’s oldest synagogue has been “saved” after the City of London turned down plans for a controversial 43-storey office block which it had feared would leave it in darkness. The plans for 31 Bury Street, close to the Grade 1-listed Bevis Marks Synagogue in central London, had attracted criticism after worshippers said it would make … Read more
Hollywood veteran Dick Van Dyke has landed his latest starring role a week shy of his 99th birthday, in the new music for a single Coldplay is claiming will be their last. In October, Chris Martin told Rolling Stone that All My Love – from the band’s album Moon Music – would be their last-ever … Read more
“Is there such a thing as London sober?” I ask a group of my friends at 1am, during a private party in the basement of a member’s club, whilst most of them hold a cocktail in one hand and a cigarette in the other. “Yes” someone replies. “I think it’s like California sober, you don’t … Read more
Reform has seized another council seat from Labour as a poll showed support for Nigel Farage’s party continues to surge. Labour continued a string of local by-election defeats, losing to Reform UK in St Helens, Liverpool on Thursday night. Victor Floyd won the Blackbrook ward poll with 546 votes to Labour candidate Sally Yeoman’s 460. … Read more
I’m leaving work when I see it, his bike. Chained to a railing outside the front of my office like handcuffs. I scan the streets jumpily, expecting to see him staring at me, waiting, but High Street Kensington is full of people. My breathing is raggedy, as it often is now, from anxiety and some … Read more