Category: London

3 Men Convicted of Transferred Malice Murder in UK Legal First

Three men who launched a gun attack on a rival gang in northwest London have been convicted of the murder of their friend after their adversaries suddenly turned the tables on them and fired back, killing him. The conviction at the Old Bailey in London of Issa Seed and Adel Yussuf, both 25, and Daniel…


Becky Sharp (1935)

Against the backdrop of Napoleon’s Waterloo campaign, an ambitious woman from a family of entertainers begins a destructive climb up the social ladder. Credit: Public Domain Movies – Feature Films: Cinema collection: epochcinema.com Epoch Original content: epochoriginal.com Feature Films: www.theepochtimes.com/featured-films * Click the “Save” button below the video to access it later on “My List.”…


Residents Return to South London Homes After Gas Explosion That Killed Girl, 4

Residents of a street in south London are being allowed to return home four days after a gas explosion that killed a four-year-old girl. Sahara Salman died when her house in Galpin’s Road, Thornton Heath, collapsed after the explosion, which occurred at 7 a.m. on Aug. 8. Her mother, Sana Ahmad, has accused utility firm…


Community Demands Answers Over Girl’s Death in London Gas Explosion

A young girl killed in a gas explosion in south London has been named locally as Sahara Salman as the community demanded answers over her “unnecessary” death. Sahara, who was four-years-old, died after a terraced house collapsed in Galpin’s Road, Thornton Heath, shortly after 7am on Monday. Three other people were also seriously injured in…


Police Surveillance of London Road Network Could Face Legal Challenge

The privacy campaigning organisation Open Rights Group has teamed up with a Green Party politician to challenge measures that would allow police to put under surveillance tens of thousands of motorists driving around London every day. The steps were taken without public consultation by the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan. In 2014 Khan’s predecessor, Boris Johnson,…


Djokovic Joins Nadal, Federer, Murray for Team Europe at Laver Cup

Tennis fans are used to seeing Rafa Nadal, Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer and Andy Murray fight tooth and nail to beat each other at the Grand Slams but the “Big Four” are set to play together in the same team for the first time at the Laver Cup in London. Wimbledon champion Djokovic on Friday…


London and the Comfort of Travel

“Believe me,” the London cabbie said, “we’re even happier to see you than you are to see us.” Riding back to our hotel from an afternoon matinee in the West End, careering down narrow streets toward Blackfriars—oh, those old English names!—the driver and his American passengers had a brief conversational lovefest. Delighted to be back…


London Is Now the Most Surveilled City in the Western World

Commentary London is a city synonymous with so many things: bad weather, great music, mediocre food, a colorful prime minister, Buckingham Palace, and cameras. Yes, cameras. More specifically, surveillance cameras supplied by companies with close ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Of course, one cannot discuss surveillance without discussing Jeremy Bentham, the English philosopher…


Nigerian Senator and Wife Accused of Organ Harvesting Will Face Trial in UK

A Nigerian senator and his wife who allegedly brought a young man into Britain so they could harvest one of his kidneys for their daughter will face trial at the Old Bailey in London. Ike Ekweremadu, 60, and his wife Beatrice Nwanneka Ekweremadu, 55 were charged last month and at the time it was reported the…


Royal Wedding (1951)

The story of “Royal Wedding” sees brother and sister Tom and Ellen Bowen as stars of “Every Night at Seven,” a Broadway theater success. They are persuaded to take the show to London, capitalizing on the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh. On the ship, Ellen meets and quickly falls in…