The actor, screenwriter and author joked that if it would help his charity work ‘then they should make me a duke’.

In the Commons, MPs rejected a bid to exempt hospices, care homes, GP practices, dentists and pharmacies from the tax hike.

Friends and family of a student who died after being hit by a van near her university campus have held a vigil in her memory.

Flowers have been laid near train tracks after a person died in Erith. Police were called to the tracks a short distance from Erith station on Monday (March 24), at 8.15am, to reports of a casualty.

Sprint queen Dina Asher-Smith made a special trip from her training base in the US to collect her MBE and said it will help inspire other people.

As a child, Nadim, her mother and her four sisters fled Taliban-ruled Afghanistan after her father was executed and arrived in Denmark as refugees.

Police have launched an appeal to find a 12-year-old boy who was last seen four days ago in west London. Joel was last seen leaving an address in Armytage Road in Hounslow around 1pm on March 21.

A day care nursery could replace a shop unit on the grounds of a former Romford pub. A planning application has been submitted to Havering Council, seeking permission to change the use of the ...

A teenage boy has been arrested after fight involving knives allegedly broke out in Queensbury. Passengers on the Jubilee line reported seeing a group of youths fighting with knives on the platform of ...

A stricken container ship which was involved in a collision with a tanker in the North Sea is to be towed to Aberdeen, according to the Coastguard. The Solong collided with the anchored tanker Stena ...

A Metropolitan Police officer who punched a Romford medical worker after mistaking him for a suspect has been sacked. PC Jonathan Marsh was called to a clinic in Atlanta Boulevard on November 13, 2022 ...

A pickpocket who followed a pensioner out of a bank and stole the £6,000 they had just withdrawn has been jailed for nine weeks. Tinka Dinkova, 22, of Empire Avenue in Edmonton, was one of two women ...