Sources: BBC
The Southwark Crown Court sentences five Just Stop Oil activists, including co-founder Roger Hallam, to prison terms ranging from four to five years for organizing protests that blocked the M25 motorway in London, England, United Kingdom, in 2022. 2024-07-18
At the Old Bailey in London, Salih Khater is sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of fifteen years. 2019-10-14
House of Fraser announces that it intends to close 31 of its 59 stores, including its flagship store on London's Oxford Street. 2018-06-7
Police in Mahikeng, Northwest Province, South Africa, fire rubber bullets as protestors against corruption and public service provision riot. President Cyril Ramaphosa leaves a Commonwealth summit in London to attend the scene. 2018-04-21
Convicted terrorist Ahmed Hassan Mohammed Ali is jailed for life in London for one count of attempted murder and one of causing an explosion with intent to endanger life. He will have to serve 34 years before becoming eligible for parole. 2018-03-23
While they are not yet ready to say they are reopening the case after the 2008 inquiry jury's final verdict and report (faulty driving and unlawful killing), the Metropolitan Police Authority Specialist Crime and Operations Command in London is investigating the credibility and accuracy of supposedly new information from an unspecified source regarding the August 1997 Death of Diana, Princess of Wales. 2013-08-17
English rock group, The Rolling Stones, celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of their first performance at the Marquee Club in Oxford Street, London. 2012-07-12
A London court is told that a Saudi prince sexually murdered his servant. 2010-10-5
The Metropolitan Police arrest 6 people in London in connection to an alleged potential threat to the visit of Pope Benedict XVI to the United Kingdom. 2010-09-17
British Labour MP Stephen Timms, a former treasury minister, is stabbed in the abdomen by a woman in east London. 2010-05-14