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10 best London deals – from £5 pizza to 50% off shuffleboard night out Looking for 10 things to do in London? Luckily, there’s lots to do in this city for cheap! At least… There is now. Metro has teamed up with Time Out to bring you the best deals across the capital. Every Friday, 10 new deals will drop, available in the Metro newspaper, on Metro.co.uk, and on our socials. You’ll also find them in our weekly London newsletter, The Slice, in your inbox every Wednesday. We’ve got an exclusive menu of the finest Northern Italian delights with rooftop views for £29, freshly…

Full list of TfL messages you can hear on the London Underground | UK News Footage has emerged of maintenance workers at a London Underground station that has left one or two people a little unnerved. Titled ‘Coming to a station near you’, the video post on Reddit shows men in orange high vis casually walking along the platform during an alarm test for if there was an armed attack. TfL has had the warning – which tells people to get out immediately – for years, but the video has caused a ripple of fear. Here’s a handy guide to…

South London Greggs bans customers from wearing headphones in store | UK News A Greggs outlet in south London has said they will refuse to serve customers who are wearing headphones. Staff at the bakery in Croydon, South London, put up a notice to customers who are listening to music or on calls when they order. The notice read: ‘When in queue, remove your headphone/AirPods and come off phones or we may have to refuse service.’ A staff member at the branch told The Sun: ‘The sign is pretty blunt but we have no option. We get more and more…

Map shows location of potentially deadly mpox strain in UK | UK News The second and third cases of the Clade Ib mpox virus have been detected. The two new cases are household contacts of the first case recorded in the UK, who contracted the virus after returning from a holiday in Africa on October 21. They are both receiving specialist care at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust in London. Professor Susan Hopkins, chief medical adviser at the UK Health Security Agency, said: ‘Mpox is very infectious in households with close contact and so it is not unexpected to see further…

Filmmaker to ‘remake’ hit film 34 years later after admitting he was ‘wrong’ The producer behind hit 1990 film The Krays has said he regrets ‘glamourising’ the East End gangsters in his film 34 years ago and is setting out to revisit the criminals in a new movie. Ray Burdis has now vowed to show the London mobsters, Ronnie and Reggie Kray, as they really were. The Krays – which starred real-life brothers and Spandau Ballet stars Gary and Martin Kemp as the notorious Kray twins – portrayed its titular subjects as ‘special boys’ who were close to their mother.…

Inside the £995,000 London home where Star Wars icon grew up When you move into a house, you might find yourself imagining the people who lived there before you – who they were, what they loved, and how they spent their years inside the four walls of your new home. But there’s one £995,000 home that’s come onto the market in South London that leaves no doubt as to the identity of its previous inhabitant. Any longstanding fan of the legendary Star Wars franchise will know Peter Cushing, who played Grand Moff Tarkin, for which he was nominated for the…

Gang on bikes who snatched phones worth £20,000 jailed | UK News Highlight the bias, if any in the title by underlining the biased words or phrase in the original title Three e-bike riding thieves who snatched £20,000 worth of phones from pedestrians in London have been sentenced. Kie Joyce, 21, and a 16-year-old boy who can’t be named for legal reasons, werejailed for three and a half years and six months respectively, while another 16-year-old boy, who also can’t be named, was handed a supervision order. CCTV footage of the trio swiping phones from people in Greenwich and Bermondsey…

London Underground November 2024 Tube strikes suspended | UK News Londoners can let out a sigh of relief after all the upcoming Tube strikes have been called off by Aslef. It comes after the RMT union had already called off its walk-out which would have impacted Tube travel this week after reaching an agreement over pay. Now the drivers’ union Aslef has also cancelled its industrial action which was set to paralyse the Underground tomorrow and Tuesday. Aslef’s full-time organiser Finn Brennan said it agreed to suspend the planned strike action ‘following fresh talks and an improved offer.’ Claire Mann, TfL’s…

Arsenal vs Brighton & Hove Albion19:00WSL YouTubeEmirates StadiumManchester City vs Tottenham Hotspur19:30Sky SportsEtihad Stadium The WSL returns today with two huge fixtures – league leaders Man City will be looking to expand their league at the top, whilst a win for Brighton (currently 3rd) could see them move to the top of the league. Fifth-place Arsenal will be desperate for all three points to keep them in with the chance of winning the title, whilst 7th place Spurs will be hoping for a second straight win.

Paul Scholes has questioned whether Marcus Rashford, Alejandro Garnacho, Diogo Dalot and Noussair Mazraoui are the right fit for incoming manager Ruben Amorim. After a thrilling victory over Manchester City on Tuesday, Amorim will take charge of his final game as Sporting Lisbon head coach against Braga this weekend before officially taking the reins at Old Trafford on Monday. His arrival could bring a change in formation on the red half of Manchester with the Portuguese coach using a three at the back system throughout his coaching career, varying between a 3-4-3, a 3-4-2-1 and a 3-5-2 systems. United have…