Staff at the TfL headquarters have been asked to consider working from home (Picture: Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images) The summer holidays have come to a dramatic end after TfL was hit by a cyber attack last night. Fortunately for commuters, the attack failed to target London transport services, and customer data was not...
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Europe’s 5 wealthiest cities – number 1 is in the UK with 258k millionaires
London is home to more millionaires than anywhere else in Europe with 258,000 people who can boast 6 figures to their name. The ample number of millionaires living in the capital sit alongside 36 billionaires, which is, again, the most on the continent. New research from Henley & Partners reports on figures from 2023 as...
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TfL asks staff to work from home after cyber attack
Staff at the TfL headquarters have been asked to consider working from home (Picture: Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images) The summer holidays have come to a dramatic end after TfL was hit by a cyber attack last night. Fortunately for commuters, the attack failed to target London transport services, and customer data was not...
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Shopping centre cordoned off and evacuated due to ‘security alert’
The Glades in Bromley was shut down on Friday (Picture: Rex) A shopping centre has been evacuated following reports of a ‘suspect package’ inside. Witnesses at The Glades in Bromley, south-east London, said ‘the alarms went off’ and people were ‘told to get outside’ as quickly as possible. Police arrived at the scene with sniffer...
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Mike Lynch, acquitted in US trial and found dead at sea, was British tech trailblazer
By Paul Sandle LONDON (Reuters) – Mike Lynch, the tech tycoon who died when his luxury yacht sank off Sicily, spent more than a decade building Britain’s biggest software company and almost as long again fighting charges he had inflated its value to secure a multi-billion-pound sale. Lynch’s body was retrieved on Thursday from the...
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Bayesian yacht: Prestigious London school attended by tech billionaire Mike Lynch’s missing 18-year-old daughter in ‘shock’ after £30m superyacht sinking
A prestigious London school is ‘in shock’ after former student Hannah Lynch went missing alongside her British tech billionaire father when their yacht sank. A spokesperson for Hannah’s old school has said they are ‘incredibly shocked’ in a kind message to her family after it emerged she is among the missing after the luxury yacht...
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Welcome to Flappy Valley! How fried chicken shops have taken over Britain – including one London street with 29 different stores – as locals slam ‘terrible and appalling food’ while others hail them as ‘historic and affordable’
They are cheap, fast, and not to mention finger-lickin’ good, so little wonder fried chicken has grown to become a British staple. For many, their local fried chicken shop fills them with a ‘sense of nostalgia’, transporting them back to a memory of where they would go with friends after school, but for others, well...
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Stark reality of life on high street once dubbed UK’s ‘best’ where yobs run riot
A HIGH street named the “best” in Britain is fighting a crime wave – where shoplifters run riot and staff are attacked. Embattled shop owner Geraint, 33, described the “top high street” as “unworthy” of the title after he had £25,000-worth of stock stolen. 6 Geraint, 33, has said Britain’s ‘best’ high street is ‘unworthy’...
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Who are Team GB’s most successful Olympians of all time?
With the Paris 2024 Olympics now over, Team GB has finished the games with a total of 65 medals – beating their total from Tokyo 2020 by one. It was the same number of medals won by Great Britain at London 2012 and the second-best ever tally on foreign soil, with only the United States...
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‘Do not travel’ warning as major UK train station is hit with cancellations
BRITS have been warned “do not travel” as London’s King’s Cross station is hit with train cancellations – leaving passengers stranded and waiting for hours. A problem with the overhead wiring between Stevenage and Hitchin has meant that southbound trains were unable to follow routes into King’s Cross station in London. 5 Trains to and...
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Thousands rally in solidarity with minorities amid UK anti-immigrant riots
The Northampton police asked the counter-protesters to disperse as the far-right protesters mellowed (Photo: PTI) 2 min read Last Updated : Aug 08 2024 | 9:04 AM IST Thousands of anti-racist counter-protesters demonstrated on Wednesday in solidarity with ethnic minorities in England, who were subjected to violent anti-immigrant riots, Al Jazeera reported. The...
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Britain shuts up shop amid threat of 100 far-Right rallies
Chief Constable Gavin Stephens, the National Police Chiefs’ Council chairman, said no one was “invisible in a crowd”. He added: “Officers across the country are looking at intelligence, CCTV footage, body-worn cameras, and will continue to do so. If you are not arrested now, you will be in future.” A list of more than 30...