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Charlie Simpson announces London gig celebrating 20 years of the heavy metal band

In this edition of our music show, Jennifer Ben Brahim meets the London-based trio Dream Wife ahead of their concert at Paris's Pitchfork music festival. They started as a university performance project, similar to "This is Spinal Tap". Three albums later, they're a fully-fledged rock band with a musical manifesto:…

Find from 16th century uncovered in building of £750m complex of 412 apartments now renamed the Stage

A petition warns that the area already struggles with 'regular and serious levels of traffic congestion'

City comment: These are unsettling times for one of London’s glittering retail jewels

Jean-Sébastien Pelland wasn’t thinking about cabling when he arrived in London from Montreal as a young finance graduate in 2001

Two Just Stop Oil protesters have smashed the glass on the Rokeby Venus by Diego Velázquez at the National Gallery in London. This, you might be surprised to hear, is not the first time this painting has been the target of activists.

The group Just Stop Oil says two climate change protesters have smashed a protective glass panel covering a famous Diego Velázquez oil painting at London’s National Gallery