The Metro – ‘Office mum’s landmark £180K win’
Summary of Today's Paper
The Metro – ‘Office mum’s landmark £180K win’
The Metro splashes on the case of an estate agent who has been awarded a £180,000 payout by a tribunal after her boss refused to let her leave work early to collect her baby from a nursery. The paper describes it as a “landmark” case.
Today's Headlines
Pensioner ‘beat wife with saucepan then strangled her over hookworm obsession’
Brian James, 81, is accused of murdering Carol James, also 81, at their bungalow in Bexleyheath, southeast london (Picture: Emily Manley) A pensioner hit his wife over the head with a saucepan before strangling her after becoming obsessed with the idea they were infected with the parasite hookworm, the Old Bailey has heard. Brian James, 81, is accused of murdering Carol James, also 81, at their bungalow in Bexleyheath, southeast London, last Friday, November 15.
80s pop icons’ former studio hits the market for £6,000,000
This £6,000,000 space was previously owned by The Pet Shop Boys (Picture: Rightmove) Nestled between Old Street and Clerkenwell, you’ll find an unassuming former warehouse tucked behind a walled courtyard. And yet, as with many places in london, there’s a hidden history here that doesn’t immediately reveal itself. After they found fame in the 1980s, popstars The Pet Shop Boys set up their recording studio here in White Lion Court on Garrett Street – and
Undercover flying squad taser gang trying to steal phones from London EE shop
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Step-by-step guide to surviving a nuclear attack and what happens after
A nuclear warhead would hit the UK in as little as 20 minutes from Russia (Picture: Getty Images) Ten minutes warning, if that, is all the UK population would have to prepare for a nuclear attack. An intercontinental ballistic missile carrying a nuclear warhead would take only 20 minutes to travel from Russia to Britain before exploding with a force equivalent to 1,000,000 tons of dynamite. As Russia has updated its doctrine to lower the
First look at 20 new futuristic London buses with quilted seats and USB ports
The new electric buses feature bigger windows and covered wheels for better safety for vulnerable road users (Picture: TfL/PA Wire) london transport has just taken a step into the future of travel after a fleet of 20 new electric buses was launched. You would be excused for thinking that south London has got new trams after seeing the new electric vehicles rolled out by TfL today. They resemble the tram-like trolleybuses which were a familiar
Passengers ‘at serious risk at one of London’s busiest stations’
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