Category: Evening Standard
Sadiq Khan warns Met Police is ‘chronically underfunded’
“As well as impacting the policing of the city, the demand on our police officers is impacting their welfare. The MPS [Metropolitan Police Service] has cancelled nearly 4,000 rest days and for each public order event, the same officers are being deployed.
Was 2023 an all-time low for Harry and Meghan?
So, what does 2024 have in store for Harry and Meghan? Firstly, we can expect to see the duke back on home turf in January. His claim against News Group Newspapers, the publisher of the Sun, for alleged unlawful information gathering, is due to be heard at the High Court. He is also suing Associated Newspapers, the publishers of the Daily Mail, the Mail on Sunday and MailOnline, along with Sir Elton John, Liz Hurley and Sadie Frost.
Love Actually pastel green mews house in Notting Hill on sale for £2.75 million
“Properties on this mews are always in high demand and this pastel green exterior epitomises the colourful aesthetic charm of St Luke’s Mews, now world renowned due to its cameo in the Christmas film Love Actually,” said Jack Thomas, sales manager in Knight Frank’s Notting Hill office.
Good cause calling itself ‘fourth emergency service’ launches Christmas campaign
According to End Child Poverty, one in three children in Wigan and Leigh grows up in poverty, so The Brick has stepped up to provide essential items for families, such as sanitary products, toothpaste, clothing, shoes and even carpet tiles, as well as traditional gifts and toys to tens of thousands of homes.
Ellie Leach says ‘I’m so much more confident in myself now’ since Strictly began
“I think I’ve become more of like a yes person, whereas before I was a bit of a no person because kind of that fear of the unknown being scared and stuff…I think I’ve really thrown myself into this experience and been like ‘You know what Vito, you’re a professional – if you trust me to do this, then why not’.”
Tories cannot govern while ‘fighting like rats in a sack’, says Keir Starmer
In a speech on the same day as the scheduled vote, Sir Keir is expected to say: “While they’re all swanning around self-importantly, in their factions and their ‘star chambers’, fighting like rats in a sack, there’s a country out here that isn’t being governed.”
Doctor Who: The Giggle on BBC One review – David Tennant’s ‘finale’ may well be the best ever hour of the show
Turns out that back in the day, 1925 in Soho to be precise, when John Logie Baird invented the TV, the first image he recorded was the head of a ventriloquist’s dummy (actually true, Stooky Bill, was his name, and yes Stooky was as spooky looking in real life; what was Baird thinking? Sick man, with all due respect).
Half of Gaza’s population ‘starving’ says UN official amid desperate humanitarian crisis
“If Gaza does not receive the food and medicine it needs, all ships in the Red Sea bound for Israeli ports, regardless of their nationality, will become a target for our armed forces,” Yahya Saree said, announcing a ban on the passage of all ships en route to Israel.
Lynn Goldsmith – the legendary photographer on documenting Bruce Springsteen’s Darkness tour
Though she’s perhaps best known for her celebrity portraits, Goldsmith has had a richly varied creative career since the Seventies, turning her hand to everything from fine art to poetry. As her musical alter-ego Will Powers, she once collaborated with Todd Rundgren, Tom Bailey, Carly Simon, Nile Rodgers and Sting on a 1983 satirical self-help album; her photography spans from fine art and celebrity portraiture, to photojournalism for the National Geographic and the New Yorker, and shots of ‘the ordinary man”.
Aston Villa 1-0 Arsenal: Hosts hold Gunners at bay to earn record 15th home win in a row
Villa would hit the front soon after, playing out from the back and not letting Arsenal get near the ball as Leon Bailey burst into plenty of space to break down the right before playing in McGinn, who had time to take a touch and turn before finishing emphatically past David Raya.
