Princess of Wales visits London cancer hospital
The Princess of Wales made a surprise visit to the west London hospital where she was treated for cancer after her recent fundraising efforts.
The Princess of Wales made a surprise visit to the west London hospital where she was treated for cancer after her recent fundraising efforts.

⚽️ Buildup, news and discussion before Saturday’s games ⚽️ This weekend’s fixtures | Tables | Mail us your thoughts Good morning football fans, before we start looking ahead to today, shall we have quick recap of last night’s action? There’s not much to recap, to be honest, although West Ham did pump Wrexham 6-0 in east London . Jarrod Bowen got the first just before the half hour as one of six different scorers. Continue reading...

Operators blame lack of parking and councils bemoan lack of central regulation, as more than 3,000 badly parked bikes seized London boroughs have seized at least 3,000 ebikes this year, a Guardian investigation has found, as hire companies face growing calls to stop bicycles littering streets and blocking pavements. Local authorities across the capital have seized 3,393 hazardously parked or abandoned ebikes so far this year, 23% higher than the number seized during all of 2025. Continue reading...

Operators blame lack of parking and councils bemoan lack of central regulation, as more than 3,000 badly parked bikes seized London boroughs have seized at least 3,000 ebikes this year, a Guardian investigation has found, as hire companies face growing calls to stop bicycles littering streets and blocking pavements. Local authorities across the capital have seized 3,393 hazardously parked or abandoned ebikes so far this year, 23% higher than the number seized during all of 2025. Continue reading...

Operators blame lack of parking and councils bemoan lack of central regulation, as more than 3,000 badly parked bikes seized London boroughs have seized at least 3,000 ebikes this year, a Guardian investigation has found, as hire companies face growing calls to stop bicycles littering streets and blocking pavements. Local authorities across the capital have seized 3,393 hazardously parked or abandoned ebikes so far this year, 23% higher than the number seized during all of 2025. Continue reading...

Royal Court theatre, London Starting in Germany in the 1930s, there is a stinging topicality to Manfred Karge’s play addressing the renaissance of Nazi ideology Early autumn London theatre has already featured two Oscar winners: Cate Blanchett in Electra / Persona and Mark Rylance in Tartuffe (Remixed). Now Tilda Swinton makes a trio. This shows the commendable dedication of some screen talent to theatre but also the box office need, in recessions, for famous faces. Unusually, there was a first night red carpet outside the Royal Court, leading a writer long associated with the venue to express “shock” to ushers at such Hollywood vulgarity. Swinton is reprising Manfred Karge’s Man to Man, which she first performed 39 years ago, in a production heading to Edinburgh, Berlin and New York. The piece is a multicharacter monologue starting in Germany in the 1930s. Continue reading...

Heathrow handled 23 million passengers between June and August 2026, ending a strong peak summer season. In August alone, the airport welcomed 7.8 million travellers and recorded its busiest day ever on 2 August, when nearly 272,000 passengers passed through the hub. Operational performance remained strong despite wider disruption across the aviation sector. Heathrow said […]
Published at 1300PDT / 2000GMT 11SEP26 Condor at the launch of Northern winter 2026/27 season plans flight number changes to its City Network to/from Frankfurt . From 25OCT26, flight number changes include the following. Frankfurt – Berlin DE40xx > DE400x Frankfurt – Hamburg DE41xx > DE40xx Frankfurt – London Gatwick DE41xx/42xx/43xx > DE43xx Frankfurt – Milan Malpensa DE43xx > DE42xx Frankfurt – Munich DE43xx/44xx > DE40xx Frankfurt – Paris Charles de Gaulle DE42xx > DE43xx Frankfurt – Prague DE440x/441x > DE448x Frankfurt – Vienna DE434x/435x > DE436x Frankfurt – Zurich DE43xx > DE44xx Following routes will see new flight number range when seasonal service resumes on 30APR27: Frankfurt – Barcelona DE43xx > DE44xx Frankfurt – Budapest DE44xx > DE43xx Frankfurt – Rome Fiumicino DE41xx/44xx > DE42xx Frankfurt – Venice Marco Polo Minor variations within DE42xx range

Italian-French director Tommaso Usberti’s Before the War, a coming-of-age tale exploring contemporary masculinity, has scooped the Grand Prize at the 41st Venice International Film Critics’ Week. In other key feature film prizes, Chilean-Indian London-based director Shalini Adnani’s Our Share of Sand, a family drama reflecting on inequality and environmental crisis, won the Audience Award. Bibiana […]

Report warns widespread autonomous vehicle adoption would put hundreds of thousands of private hire jobs at risk Taxes on self-driving cars should be introduced now in the UK to offset the rise in congestion and threats to jobs they pose, a thinktank has urged. The first robotaxis on London’s streets only started this month , but government projections are that up to 40% of cars sold could be capable of self-driving capability by the middle of the next decade. Continue reading...

Report says widespread autonomous vehicle adoption would put hundreds of thousands of private hire jobs at risk Taxes on self-driving cars should be introduced now in the UK to offset the rise in congestion and threats to jobs they pose, a thinktank has urged. The first robotaxis on London’s streets only started this month , but government projections are that up to 40% of cars sold could have self-driving capability by the middle of the next decade. Continue reading...

Report says widespread autonomous vehicle adoption would put hundreds of thousands of private hire jobs at risk Taxes on self-driving cars should be introduced now in the UK to offset the rise in congestion and threats to jobs they pose, a thinktank has urged. The first robotaxis on London’s streets only started this month , but government projections are that up to 40% of cars sold could have self-driving capability by the middle of the next decade. Continue reading...
Lady in Blue is the 16th piece of artwork to feature on the plinth since 1998.

Southbank Centre, London Wang’s avatar performs music from Ravel and Debussy to Prokofiev and Liszt while dizzying virtual worlds take shape around her in this virtual reality installation It might be the first time that a soloist at the Last Night of the Proms is simultaneously giving another performance in another London venue. Playing With Fire is an installation that lets the pianist Yuja Wang be in two places at once – or perhaps in two universes. Nine pieces of music conjure nine luminous dreamworlds for an audience wearing VR headsets: Disney’s Fantasia on steroids. A collaboration between the pianist, the director Pierre-Alain Giraud and artist Gabríela Friðriksdóttir, produced by Vive Arts and Atlas V, it has already been seen in Cannes, Paris and Shanghai, and now has a home in London until new year. Continue reading...

Camden Art Centre, London These portentous works, based on scans of a real asteroids, seem to warn of societal collapse, but this first UK exhibition of the US sculptor needed a simpler approach Corporations are already selling off mining rights to asteroids. These massive balls of rock and ore and minerals and ice up in space, far out of the reach of humanity, and mostly named after ancient Greek or Roman goddesses, are being traded like real estate by greedy suits with telescopes. There are half a dozen asteroids in American sculptor Liz Larner’s exhibition at Camden Art Centre, her first institutional exhibition in the UK, plonked on the floor like they’ve just burned through the atmosphere on their way in from space. Each one is based on a Nasa scan of a real asteroid and then re-formed out of glittery, gritty ceramic. They’re gleaming symbols of corporate greed, ecological collapse and sexism – comets of misery, sent from the future to crash land on Finchley Road. Continue reading...

Theatre Royal Stratford East, London In Ava Pickett’s tense play, Michelle Dockery’s heroine returns to a Towie-styled world where the violence and misogyny are all too recognisable ‘And Zeus created … Essex.” Playwright Ava Pickett set her award-winning debut, 1536 , in her home county during Tudor times: her latest has Helen of Troy returning home to a Towie-style living room at the end of an English civil war. An Adidas-clad Messenger functions as chorus, bringing us up to speed on this new England where angry men have rioted and petrol-bombed, wreaking havoc in Helen’s name after she left her husband, Marcus, for a so-called “foreigner”. The cream carpets and glass coffee tables belong to Cee – Helen’s best friend, married to Marcus’s big brother Mario – and it’s here that the men arrive with a shivering Helen to toast their victory with prosecco. At Theatre Royal Stratford East, London , until 10 October Continue reading...

With TIFF premiere “Ancestors,” Irish filmmaker David Turpin creates a story about the simple acts of human connection, love and how our dreams and fantasies can boost our spirits when everything else fails. Set in the late 1980s in London, when the HIV-AIDS crisis was killing off generations of primarily gay men, “Ancestors” asks the […]
For London-based Conner Ives, his New York Fashion Week debut represents all he has been working towards. Of course, this includes some gilded glamour and cheeky T-shirts, too.

As far as date movies go, “Everybody Wants to Fuck Me,” a wild London-based rom-com-meets-thriller-meets-horror-meets-thought-provoking-satire, could be either among the worst choices or the best. “I think it can be both!” says Jonathan Schey about his feature debut, premiering in Toronto, and a film he says was his attempt to “poke fun at performative nice […]

Royal Opera House, London This revival of Kaspar Holten’s 2014 staging puts the focus on the Don’s psychology. Aigul Akhmetshina’s Elvira is a standout performance in a strong cast Post #MeToo and #TimesUp, Mozart and Da Ponte’s tale of a predatory sex addict feels more pertinent than ever. Kaspar Holten’s 2014 staging , revived here with care and clarity by Greg Eldridge, may not be played in modern dress – Anja Vang Kragh’s semi-stylised costumes and Es Devlin’s Escher-inspired revolving set locate the action somewhere between 1850 and 1900 – but the contemporary resonances come over loud and clear. If only it wasn’t so frustratingly inconsistent. In Holten’s hands the overture becomes a visual as well as a musical tour de force. Luke Halls’ video design starts small, scrawling a single woman’s name on the grey stone facade. Soon, however, the trickle swells to a torrent as a catalogue of sexual conquests appear before our eyes. Projections are a constant throughout with scribbles, ink blots and splashes of blood spattering scenery and singers alike. In the famous Champagne Aria, images of buildings, rooms and staircases rotate at dizzying speed with the Don standing in the eye of the storm anticipating his latest binge. Remarkably, they rarely distract from the action, a testament to Bruno Poet’s dextrous lighting design. Continue reading...