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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 threshold for using nuclear weapons and British Storm Shadow missiles were fired into Russian territory for the first time, this threat seems more likely than ever. If a bomb of that size were to hit central London tomorrow, an estimated 1,050,720 Londoners would…

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 sight on London roads until they were phased out by the 1960s. But no, TfL hasn’t suddenly expanded the tram network which still connects four south London boroughs. Instead, it has now rolled out the long-waited chargeable electric buses serving route 358. The buses only…

Safety campaigners have raised further concerns that London Euston – one of the UK’s busiest train stations – is a danger to commuters. Last-minute announcements that lead passengers rushing to platforms when there are high levels of overcrowding are putting passengers in danger, according to London TravelWatch. Their assessment comes off the back of a warning from the Office for Rail and Road issued to Network Rail in October last year, which observed three incidents of concern. The regulator cited unacceptable numbers of people and a lack of crowd control, leading to people being injured. Campaigners have told Metro that…

The former Labour deputy prime minister John Prescott died on Wednesday at the age of 86. His family confirmed he died listening to jazz music at the care home he’d been living in since being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. Prescott served during the Tony Blair government – tributes are pouring in from across the political spectrum.

Yesterday, former One Direction boyband member Liam Payne was laid to rest in a small and private service in Buckinghamshire. His funeral was attended by his former bandmates Zayn Malik, Harry Styles, Niall Horan and Louis Tomlinson. The 31-year-old died last month in Argentina after falling from his hotel balcony.

The UK’s cold snap continues to bite with schools being closed this Thursday morning and severe travel disruptions affecting the country.

A long-awaited report into the family of Captain Tom Moore has finally been released. The report says the family’s refusal to donate any of the £1.4m received from his book deal damaged public trust in charities. It says the family of Sir Tom made profit off the charity set up in his name.

A frosty and perhaps icy start for most on Thursday with sunshine and wintry showers in areas exposed to the northwesterly wind. Cloudier in the southwest with outbreaks of rain and hill snow moving through. Rather breezy. Wintry and blustery showers continue in the north of the UK, but drier with clear skies further south, and a widespread frost developing away from any coasts.