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Individuals and campaigners tell of damage done by powerful people using the courts to try to shut down investigative reporting

Artist Liu Ye tells us what inspires him, as his exhibition ‘Naive and Sentimental Painting’ is on show in London

The force will launch a significant policing and security operation when pro-Palestinian demonstrators march through London on Armistice Day.

The 34-year-old was last seen in person at his partner’s address in Brixton, south London, on October 15.

Dec ICE NY cocoa (CCZ23 ) on Thursday closed +71 (+1.87%), and Dec ICE London cocoa #7 (CAZ23 ) closed +40 (+1.20%). Cocoa prices on Thursday closed moderately higher as they consolidated just below Monday's highs. A decline in the dollar index (DXY00) Thursday to a 1-week low supported cocoa...

March NY world sugar #11 (SBH24 ) on Thursday closed -0.03 (-0.11%), and Dec London white sugar #5 (SWZ23 ) closed -4.40 (-0.39%). Sugar prices Thursday posted modest losses as they consolidated below recent highs. Last Wednesday, NY sugar posted a 12-year nearest-futures high on the outlook for tighter global...

Sarah de Lagarde was fully conscious throughout the horrific ordeal, which happened after she slipped onto Tube tracks in wet weather

From the Express (UK) (Max Parry) (expurgation, of course, in the news story): The arrest, made at 9.55pm on Tuesday, October 31 in east London, comes after a video was posted on Facebook where the person behind the camera appears to condemn the number of Palestinian flags on Bethnal Green…

George Bernard Shaw famously observed that “it is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman despise him.” That was in the preface to Pygmalion, whose hero, Professor Higgins, was a phoneticist who could identify which bit of London any individual Cockney came from —…