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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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’...
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...
‘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...
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...
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...