World's oldest YMCA closes doors for last time to become 'just another luxury hotel' in London
The huge 116,000 sq ft building on Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, near the British Museum, was sold to developers ...
UK seaside town with £38,000 houses where 'everyone wants to move'
The north of England coastal town of North Shields, Tyne and Wear, has been named as a 'property hotspot' and prices are ...
People seeking cosmetic surgery need mental health checks, says Royal Society’s plastic surgeon
Cosmetic doctors should carry out mental health checks on patients who want aesthetic treatments, a top doctor has warned. Dr ...
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Charles Dickens Museum London celebrates 100 years
A copy of David Copperfield read by Captain Scott while trapped in an ice cave and the room where Dickens wrote Oliver Twist are on show at ...
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Gun fired, dog stolen during robbery at London public housing building
Three people face charges after a suspect fired a gun and a dog was stolen during an armed robbery at a London public housing ...
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Never tired of Whitehall
‘When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life,’ said Samuel Johnson in 1777.
Millions of dollars in unclaimed property sitting on CT's Big List, including 160-year-old trust
A trust now worth $36,000 created by a whale oil magnate in 1866 has been unused and unclaimed since at least 2000.
Feeling flush: London's top bars in old public toilets
London is awash with bars in old loos, and while it’s less than ideal to see public convenience diminish, at least in their ...
‘We took them back to the good times: when it started’ – the inside story of Becoming Led Zeppelin
Stevie Chick talks to the filmmakers who persuaded the hard rock giants to revisit their early days and open their archives ...
Who owns London? From old family trusts to businessman brothers, here are the capital's property power players
The capital’s grand land-owning families are being unseated by new money. Here are the major players monopolising the capital ...
'Evil was in the air' on day of mother's death
The daughter of a woman who was killed in the Omagh bomb has told a public inquiry that "evil was in the air" on the day of ...
“They were vulnerable teenagers who thought they were coming to the UK for a better life"
DS Huxley of Cheshire Constabulary said: “It’s clear that Hoang and Doan brought the two teenagers to the UK for the purpose of exploitation. “These were young, vulnerable teenagers, who thought they ...