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Is this London’s ugliest home? House surrounded by rusting steel and razor wire is frozen in time – exactly how late owner left it
A derelict former corner shop on Charlemont Road in East Ham has become a talking point among locals and passers-by, who have branded it “London’s ugliest house” and compared it to Alcatraz due to its rusting steel barricades and razor wire. Long bricked up at the front with no windows, the property has remained untouched…
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I moved to Sydney thinking I’d found paradise. Two years later, I’m fleeing Australia’s most beautiful city… here’s what finally broke me
Sarah Brookes, a writer who relocated from Perth to Sydney’s Northern Beaches two years ago, has written about why she is now leaving what she calls Australia’s most beautiful city. She moved after her daughter chose a local public school and following the loss of her mother and grandmother, but says the city’s high cost…
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Sadiq Khan prepares to ban log burners in London in his latest ‘clean air’ clampdown on the capital
Sadiq Khan is preparing new laws to ban log burners across London, using zero-emission zones to enforce area-specific restrictions as part of a wider “clean air” clampdown. The move would force homeowners who have installed wood stoves, often costing between £2,000 and £4,000, to remove them, and forms part of a broader package of proposals…
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Putin boosts his stock of nuclear warheads to nine-year high as he threatens West that putting troops into Ukraine ‘means war with Russia’
Vladimir Putin has expanded Russia’s nuclear arsenal for the fourth consecutive year while warning Nato that deploying troops to Ukraine would mean war with Russia. The increase, revealed by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, comes as tensions escalate over Western support for Kyiv, with Putin denying Russia poses any threat to Nato states even…
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‘The day he nearly killed me is the day that he saved my life’
The BBC reports on Sheffield Women’s Aid, a refuge that has supported domestic abuse victims for more than 50 years, as Attorney General Ellie Reeves visited to announce £5m in extra funding and measures aimed at improving how the justice system treats survivors. Two women, Michaela and Charmian Owston, shared their experiences of years of…
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Hong Kong jails democracy activists as Green Party rocked by exodus, Chelsea cash nets £175m
Vigil organisers get up to seven years in a Tiananmen crackdown case; Green Party women quit citing misogyny while Gove offers Holyrood schools advice; frozen Abramovich Chelsea funds earn record interest, plus FBI, Meta and Hogwarts Legacy news.
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“It’s really ironic. The spirit has been missing for some time, though we did a good job of camouflaging it”: Mike Portnoy was right – Dream Theater needed to change. No one thought they’d do it without him
Following Mike Portnoy’s acrimonious departure from Dream Theater in 2010, the remaining members brought in drummer Mike Mangini and set about proving the progressive metal band could thrive without its long-time drummer and de facto musical director. The resulting 2011 album, A Dramatic Turn Of Events, was intended to answer scepticism about the band’s future…
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Jury clears Lil Durk of all murder conspiracy allegations
A federal jury acquitted rapper Lil Durk (Durk Devontay Banks, 33) of all charges in a murder-for-hire trial on Friday, bringing to a close a case that had run for nearly six years. He had been accused of orchestrating a plot to kill fellow rapper Quando Rondo in revenge for the 2020 killing of King…
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War of words erupts as Pauline Hanson doubles down on her attack on Albanese’s late mother over public housing
Pauline Hanson has repeated her criticism of Anthony Albanese’s late mother for living in public housing for decades, reigniting a row over the Prime Minister’s account of his upbringing. Albanese has often spoken about growing up in social housing in Camperdown, Sydney, where his mother Maryanne lived on a disability pension due to chronic arthritis…