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According to the Metropolitan Police, a man in London was taken into police custody Wednesday “on suspicion of contamination of goods with intention of causing public harm or anxiety” after he allegedly used needles to inject food at several grocery stores. Metropolitan Police were responding to reports of an individual shouting at people in the street when they learned that he […]
A priest sewed his lips shut in protest of Rupert Merdoch’s News Corporation and it’s “denial of the climate emergency,” according to a release from Christian Climate Action. The man, 71-year-old Rev. Tim Hewes, sewed his lips outside of News Corp.’s London offices in an effort to “demonstrate the terrible and violent havoc Murdoch’s actions have reaped upon the world and […]
A woman managed to steal £4.2 million worth of diamonds, equivalent to around $5.7 million, by posing as a gemologist and replacing the valuable stones with regular garden pebbles. The elaborate heist took place at the Boodles showroom on New Bond Street in Mayfair, central London. According to The Guardian, Lulu Lakatos allegedly pretended to be examining seven diamonds […]
Four members of a Muslim family of five in Canada were killed after being struck by a pickup truck in what police suspect to be a “planned, premeditated” attack, CBC reports. The driver, 20-year-old Nathaniel Veltman, has been charged with four counts of murder and one count of attempted murder after he mounted the curb and hit […]
Singer-songwriter Sinéad O’Connor has shared that, as a teenager, she had an affair with a London minister. In her new book “Rememberings,” which follows her life and career breaking out in the ‘80s to today, the Irish artist recalled having had an affair with a maried 47-year-old minister of a London Baptist church when she was 18. […]
Emergency services were called to a 19-storey tower-block over the weekend when a fire broke out at New Providence Wharf development, near Canary Wharf, which reportedly had cladding similar to that found on Grenfell Tower. So far, it appears no lives were lost, but according to the London Fire Brigade (LFB), two adults were taken to hospital to be treated for the […]
London mayor Sadiq Khan has announced he’s looking into the logistics of decriminalising cannabis. The announcement comes as Khan and other mayoral candidates lay out their policies and plans ahead of May’s elections. If Khan is re-elected on May 6, he says he will set up an independent London drugs commission to explore the potential […]
Researchers are pouring water on the belief that microdosing LSD actually does anything (at least, anything positive) for those who do it. According to The Guardian, the practice became a Silicon Valley trend and then spread outwards from there. The belief was that it boosted mood, sharpened cognitive abilities, and made people more creative. Let us note […]
Residents in London and southeast England must adhere to new emergency lockdown restrictions, as the country fights a wave of COVID-19 infections from a new fast-spreading strain of the virus. According to a report from Bloomberg, 16.4 million Britons are impacted by the new stay-at-home orders that went into effect on Sunday. The move overturns previous plans […]
Rita Ora posted an apology for celebrating her 30th birthday in defiance of the United Kingdom’s coronavirus lockdown. The pop singer shared a note to her Instagram Story that said she was “deeply sorry” and “embarrassed” over her actions. “I attended a small gathering with some friends to celebrate my 30th birthday. It was a […]
