Sunrays shining through a glass jar of Nutella chocolate spread sparked a huge house fire that killed a family's dog, London Fire Brigade (LFB) has said. The blaze started when low winter sunlight was refracted by the jar which was being used to collect loom bands,...
David Cameron says the disappearance of three east London girls feared to be heading to Syria to join Islamic State extremists is "deeply concerning". Shamima Begum, 15, Kadiza Sultana, 16, and an unnamed 15-year-old friend, flew from Gatwick to Turkey on Tuesday. Police, who interviewed the girls...
Almost 100 firefighters took more than three hours to tackle a huge fire that completely destroyed a warehouse in south-east London overnight. Witnesses reported hearing explosions as huge plumes of smoke were sent hundreds of feet into the air. Flames and smoke could be seen from miles away,...
High up in Canary Wharf, a war is raging. Hunched over a laptop, James Chappell is on the frontline. The chief technology officer of Digital Shadows scans a report of dozens of skirmishes from the past 24 hours. Some are harmless, some are cause for...
London's cash-strapped hospitals have been hit with fines totalling hundreds of thousands of pounds for false fire alarm call-outs, new figures reveal. The worst offender, St George’s Hospital in Tooting, has been forced to pay out almost £47,000 after crews were called out unnecessarily 168 times...
When launching a nationwide manhunt for a gunman who rampaged through Copenhagen this weekend, Danish police had a weapon often decried by civil-rights activists: a dense network of street and taxi surveillance cameras. Danish authorities said the cameras allowed them to quickly piece together the 14-hour...
(Reuters) - The leaders of Britain’s three main parties have pledged to end power generation from coal plants that don’t use emissions-capturing technology, and to push for a global climate deal, according to a document published on Saturday. The agreement did not give any timeframe for...
Hollywood star says centre at LSE aims to put empowerment of women at top of agenda of ‘finest minds, in the best academic institutions’ Europe’s first academic centre to combat the brutality faced by women in warzones has been opened in London by Angelina Jolie, who...
Executive Alarms have installed ACT access control equipment on more than 450 doors in a roll-out across multiple hospital sites in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire. The project covers facilities ranging from a new £11m centre for adolescents with mental health problems in Headington to a brand-new adult...
The UK's fourth biggest supermarket Morrison's has suffered a data theft from its staff payroll system, with thousands of employees bank details published on-line. It comes a day after the struggling store tumbled to a £176 million annual loss and issued a profits warning, sending shares...
