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Captain Tom’s family made more than £1m through link to charity, damning report finds Captain Tom Moore’s family “repeatedly benefited” financially from a charity created in his name, engaging in a “pattern of behaviour” that saw them personally earn more than £1m from their involvement, a highly critical report has found. Hannah Ingram-Moore and her husband Colin, who are now disqualified from serving as charity trustees, had allowed the public to “understandably feel misled” after sales from the Second World War veteran’s autobiography were not donated to the charity. The Charity Commission found that Ms Ingram-Moore had set out expectations…

Every storm name for 2024/25 revealed as Met Office confirm Storm Bert to hit UK this weekend The Met Office has already confirmed the storm names to be used across 2024 and 2025 – as the UK braces for Storm Bert. The new storms list – first launched in 2015 – for each year generally runs from early September until late August the following year, coinciding with the beginning of autumn. James, Lewis and Mavis are all included in the new list in honour of figures from the Met Office’s 170-year history. The forecaster said James is named after Group…

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. He phoned 999 shortly before 8.30am saying he ‘wished to report that he had just killed his wife’, prosecutor Nicholas Hearn told the court during…

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 now it’s for sale to the tune of £6,000,000. At 4,400 square feet, after Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe decided to sell up it was…

Are users leaving Elon Musk’s X en masse and where are they heading? The limited data on X user numbers makes measuring the full extent of the reported exodus from the platform almost impossible. Hundreds of thousands of dissatisfied users have reportedly fled Elon Musk’s X, previously known as Twitter, following Donald Trump’s re-election, with an estimated 115,000 accounts deactivated in the US alone on the day after the ballot. Celebrities and prominent brands ditching the platform cite mounting concerns over the unchecked spread of misinformation, conspiracy theories and hate speech, as well as what they consider to be Musk’s…

Robbers steal diamond-encrusted snuffboxes in raid on Paris museum Robbers steal diamond-encrusted snuffboxes in raid on Paris museum

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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…