Anthony France

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Anthony France is Crime Correspondent for the Evening Standard and is based in London

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Anthony France is Crime Correspondent for the Evening Standard and is based in London

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London

London set to net £53m from Champions League final spending

Economists calculate significant boost to the city’s economy as tens of thousands of fans descend on London for European club football showpiece

31 May 2024
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Crime

CCTV shows drive-by gunman as girl, 9, fights for her life

Witnesses said gunman, riding on a stolen motorbike, sprayed bullets towards diners who dived for cover

30 May 2024
<p>Tools being sold at a car boot sale and Roy Melville, founder of Notting Hill Handyman</p>
Crime

Trade workers hold mass rally in London amid tool theft epidemic

Around 44,514 crimes were reported to police last year - one every 12 minutes

30 May 2024
<p>Police raid taking place in east London on Wednesday</p>
Crime

10 arrests in Met Police war on Newham crack cocaine and heroin gang

More than 100 officers took part in the simultaneous warrants on Wednesday

29 May 2024
<p>Oliver White with his partner Alana Dredge </p>
Crime

Watch dealer took own life after ‘distress’ of jewellery shop robbery

Oliver White, 27, was placed in a chokehold by an assailant while a second man stole a number of high-value watches at jewellery firm 247 Kettles in Richmond

29 May 2024
<p>Alana Dredge paid tribute to boyfriend Oliver White on social media </p>
Crime

Girlfriend pays emotional tribute to watch dealer robbery victim

Oliver White, who is from Surrey, died hours after the attack on Saturday

28 May 2024
<p>Pope Francis at last Wednesday’s weekly general audience in Saint Peter Square at the Vatican</p>
World

Pope Francis apologises for using derogatory term for gay men

The Vatican on Tuesday said the pontiff did not intend to use homophobic language and apologised for an offence caused

28 May 2024
<p>Luke Skeete, and Skeete with Harrow Borough FC’s Andrew Harewood at storage unit in west London</p>
Crime

Footballers jailed over cocaine empire worth £260m in west London

Luke Skeete led an organised crime group of once promising players who supplied 2.7 tonnes of Class A drugs across Britain

28 May 2024
<p>The woman was targeted on Goring Street, near Aldgate Underground Station</p>
Crime

Moment mum has iPhone snatched by teenage robber on bike in London

Magistrates ordered the 16-year-old’s parents to pay £1,000 victim compensation

28 May 2024
<p>The Horizon IT inquiry heard from Paula Vennells over three days (Lewis Stickley/PA)</p>
UK

Met Police squad of 80 detectives probe Post Office Horizon scandal

Former chief executive Paula Vennells was booed by wrongly convicted subpostmasters last week

28 May 2024
<p>Stacey Solomon and family </p>
Showbiz

Stacey Solomon ‘giving up TV career to be stay-at-home mum’

Loose Women star Solomon: ‘I’ve got less mum guilt because I actually think I’m phenomenal’

28 May 2024
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World

Deadly airstrike on Rafah a ‘tragic mishap’, Netanyahu acknowledges

Israeli military faces international condemnation after at least 45 killed

27 May 2024
<p>Hotspur Street, Kennington</p>
Crime

Boy, 12, dies after falling from upper floor flat in south London

Police and paramedics scrambled to Hotspur Street in south London on Friday afternoon

25 May 2024
<p>Brandon Conrado-Gamboa, 30</p>
Crime

Predator jailed for drugging then burgling men met on Grindr

Brandon Conrado-Gamboa used fake profiles to lure victims and spiked their Prosecco

25 May 2024
<p>Matthew Trickett</p>
UK

Death of ex-Royal Marine accused of spying ‘not suspicious’

Matthew Trickett, from Maidenhead, Berkshire, was also charged with foreign interference

24 May 2024
<p>Police and medics raced to Bourne Avenue, Hayes</p>
Crime

Boy, 16, stabbed to death in west London

Police found the teenager on Bourne Avenue at 1.30pm on Friday

24 May 2024
<p>England squad and Conservative Lord Sharpe of Epsom</p>
Politics

Fans can ‘get on lash’ says Tory peer as Euros pub hours Bill passes

Lord Sharpe of Epsom told the House: ‘My Lords, please drink responsibly’

24 May 2024
<p>Carlo Acutis died aged 15</p>
UK

London-born teenager set to become first millennial saint

The Vatican has approved canonisation of Carlo Acutis, whose spreading of teachings of the Catholic church online led to him being called ‘God's influencer’

23 May 2024
<p>Codie Bambrick, 18</p>
UK

Family mourn teenager, 18, stabbed to death in street

Codie Bambrick was attacked at lunchtime on Glazebrook Road, New Parks

23 May 2024
<p>New-build estate on Roadtrain Avenue in Leyland, Lancashire</p>
UK

Mother’s horror as son shot in head with airgun while getting football

Police say a juvenile suspect has been identified regarding the incident in Roadtrain Avenue, Leyland on Monday

23 May 2024
<p>Adam Ali will be sentenced at Sheffield Crown Court </p>
UK

Taxi driver guilty of raping schoolgirls 20 years ago

Adam Ali, 43, from Greenwich, was arrested as part of one of the UK’s biggest child sex abuse probes

23 May 2024