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Anthony France is Crime Correspondent for Evening Standard and is based in London

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Anthony France is Crime Correspondent for Evening Standard and is based in London

Crime

Dad of murdered teen Kiyan Prince sets out vision for young Londoners

Dr Mark Prince OBE has dedicated his life to steering young people away from knife crime since Kiyan, 15, was fatally stabbed trying to break up a fight outside his Edgware school 20 years ago

18 May 2026
London

King’s Cross hotel fire sees 30 staff and guests evacuated

Emergency crews rescued four others at around 2am on Saturday in central London

27 Dec 2025
UK

Survivor of Christmas Day swim tragedy: ‘It was a mistake to get in’

Mike Brown, 60, said conditions in Budleigh Salterton ‘worse he’d seen’ in three decades

27 Dec 2025
London

Man dies after fire at block of flats in east London before Christmas

Firefighters tackled the blaze on Darndale Close, Walthamstow at 7am

26 Dec 2025
UK

Tragedy as body of missing student, 19, is found on Christmas Day

Tom Dingle was last on CCTV in the village of Appley Bridge heading towards a pub

26 Dec 2025
London

Shocking moment young thugs brawl at Winter Wonderland

Trouble flares at Europe’s most complained-about festive attraction

26 Dec 2025
Crime

Longest-serving female prisoner could soon be released after 40 years

Maria Pearson was jailed in 1987 for attacking Janet Newton but has refused to attend rehabilitation programmes

26 Dec 2025
A missile is launched from a military vessel at an unidentified location
World

US launch deadly strikes against Islamic State in Nigeria, says Trump

American president warned of threat to Christians in West African country

26 Dec 2025
Royals

UK police to ask FBI about Epstein file ‘drug and torture parties’

The Epstein files, released in the United States this week, contain lurid claims against Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor

26 Dec 2025
UK

Hundreds of Sainsbury’s and Argos toys recalled due to choking hazard

Parents who bought the item told to return it immediately

26 Dec 2025
Transport

Woman in her 20s dies in Christmas Eve crash on M2 amid travel chaos

A shortage of train crew, incidents on the rail network and major road closures are causing widespread delays as record numbers travel home for Christmas

24 Dec 2025
Crime

Man, 21, who popped out for Tesco food shop vanished a week ago

Samuel is known to frequent high streets in Greenford, Sudbury Hill and Harrow

24 Dec 2025
Crime

Two young children kicked to floor at London Tube station

The suspect walked away and boarded an eastbound Central line train, British Transport Police said

24 Dec 2025
Crime

Suspect charged after man, 40, stabbed to death in northwest London

The victim collapsed at a flat in Tollgate House, Maida Vale around 9.30pm on Friday

24 Dec 2025
London

Urgent police search for boy, 13, ‘missing from family at Christmas’

Abdul’s father said the family are ‘deeply concerned’ for his safety since he left him in Islington

24 Dec 2025
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World

Two police officers are killed by car bomb in Moscow

Traffic officers approached a man acting suspiciously near the site where Lt Gen Fanil Sarvarov died on Monday

24 Dec 2025
World

Epstein ‘prison suicide postcard’ about president is fake, claims DoJ

Epstein files contains postcard allegedly written by Epstein that claims ‘our president’ loves ‘young, nubile girls’

24 Dec 2025
Crime

London toddler, 2, dies after broken down car hit on A1

Five others inside the Toyota, two adults and three children, were injured

23 Dec 2025
London

Woman dies after south London house fire

Crews called to blaze in Bath Close, Peckham at 10pm on Monday

23 Dec 2025
Rob Reiner (centre) and wife Michele Singer (L) and son Nick Reiner (R)
World

Rob Reiner and wife Michele’s death certificates reveal new details

The couple’s son Nick Reiner, 32, has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder

23 Dec 2025
London

London A&E units ‘in the thick of it’ during flu crisis, warn doctors

Data suggests virus outbreak in the capital is continuing to spread as cases jump 104 per cent on last winter

23 Dec 2025