London
London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of 9.14 million people in 2025. Its wider metropolitan area is the largest in Western Europe, with a population of 15.4 million. London stands on the River Thames in southeast England, at the head of a 50-mile (80 km) tidal estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a major settlement for nearly 2,000 years. Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Stories this week
- 42
- Today
- 7
Coverage this week
Separate stories naming London, by day.
| Day | Stories |
|---|---|
| Thu | 1 |
| Fri | 0 |
| Sat | 5 |
| Sun | 9 |
| Mon | 8 |
| Tue | 12 |
| Today | 7 |
0.3% of News stories in the last 24 hours, down from 0.4% over the days before.
Storylines
Today
- London borough crowned Britain's happiest place to live - how does your area rank?
First: Evening Standard, 1 min before anyone else
- Moment brazen thief snatches phone in plain sight at London pub
First: GB News, 5 hr 57 min before anyone else
- Russell Brand Sentenced To 10 Years In Prison For Rape & Sexual Assault
First: The Daily Wire, 1 hr 2 min before anyone else
- Falklands veteran found hope in darkest hour thanks to iconic London institution
- Revealed: The £2million Grade II listed four storey Georgian townhouse in fashionable east London where a grasping civil servant juggled five jobs to cheat taxpayers out of £350,000
- David Walliams suffers major blow as London mansion put up for sale at cut price
- Russell Brand's grim reality inside 'squalid' London prison where he faces 10 years
First: GB News, 1 day before anyone else
Yesterday
- Reported Issues of November
First: Evening Standard, 12 min before anyone else
- Russell Brand sentenced to 10 years, six months for rape, sexual assault.
First: Evening Standard, 3 hr 24 min before anyone else
- High pollution alert issued in London after PM2.5 levels exceed WHO limits by 8 times
First: Sky News, 7 hr 56 min before anyone else
- Dangerous air pollution alert is issued for London TODAY after bonfires and fireworks added to dense fog to cause smog build-up
First: Daily Mail, 3 hr 3 min before anyone else
- London Museum wins 24-hour licence ahead of historic opening
- Inside the 2026 LACMA Art+Film Gala: See All the Red Carpet Looks | Photos
First: Daily Mail, 2 days before anyone else
- Albo is sleepwalking us into ‘Down and out in Paris and London’
Monday 9 November
- Met Office issues record-breaking polar vortex forecast as UK faces snow
First: The Mirror, 4 hr 31 min before anyone else
- How much is council tax going up in your London borough? Analysis reveals likely rises in every area
- London nursery shuts down without warning after string of Ofsted complaints
- Sophie Turner cuts London home's asking price from £2.6m to over £1.75m
- Disabled boy forced to wait years for essential home adaptations over London council failings
- Tube strike: Fury grows as RMT to 'hold London to ransom' with eight walkouts inflicting travel misery
- Qantas to scrap Kangaroo Route stopovers with direct 20-hour Sydney to London flights
Sunday 8 November
- Prince Harry tells audience off for filming him on their phones as he gives surprise speech in London before heading to Europe with Meghan
First: The Mirror, 14 hr 17 min before anyone else
- Tube strikes will bring ‘no festive cheer’ to London businesses, bosses warn
- Tiktok terrorist who prayed for British soldiers to be slaughtered is being housed in £300,000 three-bed council flat in north London
First: Evening Standard, 41 min before anyone else
Saturday 7 November
- Sequoia's London Exit Not a Sign US Investors Are Souring on Europe
- Dad, 32, dies after being shot in car while trying to break up road rage row – as murder probe launched & man charged
First: Evening Standard, 3 hr 11 min before anyone else
- Inside London's bizarre robot fight nights where machines battle for glory
- Borough baby blues: London's cruel IVF postcode lottery
- Killer jailed for life after stabbing student to death at west London train station