Hufton + Crow The Elizabeth line is one of six nominees for the prestigious architecture prize The Elizabeth line, a rail network which opened in London in 2022, has been announced as one of six nominees for the 2024 Riba Stirling prize for architecture. Other sites and structures nominated by the Royal Institute of British … Read more
Jason Scott Criminals slash curtains until they find a valuable load Lorry drivers are calling for more secure truck stops across the UK to stop organised crime gangs from stealing cargo. Last week the Road Haulage Association (RHA) called on the new government to create a specific freight crime offence and a national truck parking … Read more
Metropolitan Police/PA Media Anjem Choudary has now been jailed for life, to serve a minimum of 28 years The threat from international and domestic terror presents a “breadth of challenge greater than it has ever been”, according to senior US and UK police officers who oversaw the successful prosecution of Anjem Choudary. The Islamist preacher … Read more
BBC Post-Covid, coffee shops have boomed in China’s financial capital Walk through the streets of Shanghai and its café culture is unmissable. There are some areas where you won’t be able to turn without passing yet another new little café. China’s financial capital now has so many coffee shops that the government claims it has … Read more
BBC Reef’s father believes his son – seen here with a baby cousin just days before was killed – wanted children Increasing numbers of bereaved parents in Israel are asking for sperm from the bodies of their sons – many of them soldiers – to be extracted and frozen. Some rules on the procedure have … Read more
Getty Images Dua Lipa was born in the UK to Kosovan-Albanian parents Across the summer in the UK there’s a music festival pretty much every week somewhere in the country. Highlights include the summer kick off with Radio 1’s Big Weekend in May, Glastonbury’s dominance in June, Latitude in July and a Reading and Leeds … Read more
In the total chaos of the team final at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, as the sky seemed to be falling and Simone Biles was forced to withdraw mid-competition, USA responded to the unexpected adversity with admirable resolve. They finished with a silver medal, a proud achievement, but one that left them even hungrier than before. … Read more
The most immediately convincing words out of the subject’s mouth in A Storm Foretold are when he is threatening the director. “Obviously,” says Roger Stone to Danish film-maker Christoffer Guldbrandsen at the end of an anti-Trump rant, “if you use any of that I’ll murder you.” As Guldbrandsen notes earlier in the film, their relationship … Read more
Team GB bagged two more gold medals and Simone Biles led the USA women’s gymnastics team to Olympic redemption on a steamy day in Paris when organisers faced exacting questions over their preparations for the extreme weather. A win in the 4x200m freestyle race ahead of the USA and Australia and a Games record in … Read more
As it was in Tokyo, so it goes again in Paris. The Great Britain quartet of James Guy, Tom Dean, Matt Richards and Duncan Scott defended their Olympic 4x200m freestyle relay title, and won Team GB’s first gold medal of the swimming competition at these Games. They beat both the USA and Australia, and did … Read more