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Metro • 22nd July 2025

Eggs thrown as protesters clash outside Canary Wharf migrant hotel

Eggs are raining down on activists protesting a luxury hotel in Canary Wharf that is being converted to house migrants.
The shells appeared to be chucked from nearby skyscrapers and came close to hitting both anti-immigrant and pro-immigrant protestors near to to the four-star Britannia Hotel.
It is the second night of unrest in Canary Wharf after it emerged that the government intends to use the hotel as temporary accommodation for asylum seekers.
Eggs first appeared to splatter onto the ground...

Metro • 26th June 2025

Students screamed 'we're going to die' before double decker crashed into river

A college bus crashed into a river after the brakes failed and the accelerator jammed, a witness has said.
Police hailed the bravery of onlookers who helped emergency workers rescue the youngsters and the driver trapped on the Bluestar 607 bus following the accident in Eastleigh, Hampshire.
The driver and four passengers have been taken to hospital, with two of them in ‘serious but not life-threatening’ condition.
In a video of the incident, a student on board the bus can be heard saying: ‘Oh my...

Metro • 12th June 2025

Air India plane pilot's chilling mayday call before deadly Ahmedabad crash

The doomed Air India flight’s captain warned the plane was ‘losing power’ in a mayday call just before it crashed in Ahmedabad.
‘Mayday…no thrust, losing power, unable to lift,’ was the last message from Captain Sumeet Subharwal, who had 8,200 hours of flying experience.
The London Gatwick-bound Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner slammed into a doctors’ hostel, killing 241 out of 242 people on board and at least four medical students on the ground.
The distress signal was issued moments after takeoff but p...

Metro • 11th June 2025

Homes evacuated and man arrested after 'bomb found near Post Office'

Homes have been evacuated and roads closed in a Welsh town centre after reports of an ‘active bomb’ near a Post Office.
A bomb squad was dispatched to a residential street New Dock Road in Llanelli, 11 miles north-west of Swansea.
Officers set up a cordon on five roads around the Post Office, which locals told Metro has been busy with police activity since this morning.
Explosive ordnance disposal experts were called in and five roads were cordoned off.
Multiple locals told Metro they had heard...

Metro • 10th June 2025

Eleven dead and 12 injured after former student who had gun licence opened fire

Austria is mourning the country’s deadliest mass shooting after a gunman opened fire in his former school.  
The attack at Borg Dreierschutzengasse secondary school in Graz left 11 people dead, including the suspect, and at least 12 people were injured.  
The latest victim to die is a woman, who succumbed to her injuries in hospital. The death toll is feared to rise as some of the people are critically injured.
Authorities say the suspect is a 21-year-old former pupil, who used two firearms he...

Metro • 27th May 2025

New video of Liverpool parade crash shows car driving into crowd 'deliberately'

New footage captured the moment a car drove through a crowd of Liverpool fans at a trophy parade.
A 53-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and dangerous driving while unfit through drugs.
There were 65 confirmed casualties, and of those, 50 people were sent to hospital and 11 are still receiving treatment.
Assistant Chief Constable Jenny Sims said the car followed an ambulance into the parade area after a road block was temporarily lifted, after reports a person was h...

Metro • 8th May 2025

Metro relives VE Day 1945 celebrations - as it happened

80 years ago today – May 8 – the United Kingdom went through one of the most momentous days in its history.
The country marked Victory in Europe after Germany surrendered to the Allies on May 7 after almost six years of brutal war on the continent.
It was a day full of national political events, as well as close-knit community celebrations.
Below, Metro takes us back in time to May 8 1945, where we will report on VE Day as if it was happening live.

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Metro • 11th April 2025

Manhunt after woman hit by a van at golf course during police chase

A manhunt is underway after a police chase led to a serious collision at a championship golf course in Birmingham.
Two patrol cars were tailing a grey Nisan van truck when it collided with the woman at Aston Wood Golf Club in Little Aston at 10.25am.
Dash cam footage allegedly showed the vehicle speeding through a busy roundabout near the golf course on Blake Street.
The driver of the van, alongside two passengers, fled the scene. Police are working to ‘trace’ the trio.
The unnamed woman suffere...

Metro • 10th April 2025

Father and son 'pinned down drug driver' who tried to flee after London crash

A hero father and son chased down an alleged drug driver who tried to run away from a horrific car crash in Islington.
A car crashed into Pera Schnitzel Garden, a European restaurant, on the A1 Upper Street in central London at about 7.45am, causing major disruption throughout rush hour and beyond.
The London Ambulance Service says it treated four people at the scene, including a woman in her 40s who was taken to hospital ‘in a life-threatening or life-changing condition’.
An employee at Gilmart...

Metro • 29th March 2025

Myanmar earthquake death toll over 1,640 with dozens missing in Bangkok

The death toll from a powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar has swollen to 1,644, military officials say.
The tremor, which tore though Mandalay, the country’s second-largest city, restored homes, businesses, Buddhist monsatires and roads alike.
The country’s government, led by a military junta, said 3,408 people have been injured. The figure is expected to rise as rescuers wade through the rubble, with some putting the true death toll at 10,000.
A state of emergency has been declared in...

Metro • 19th March 2025

Man rescued after collapsed roof trapped him inside his flat in west London

A man trapped in his basement flat by rubble from a collapsing roof says he is lucky to be alive.
Three homes converted into flats on McGregor Road in Notting Hill, west London, were affected after the front gable end of each property collapsed.
Dramatic pictures show rubble piled on the ground as a huge ladder towered over the homes.
London Fire Brigade were called at about 1am. They said 11 people were evacuated from their homes, but nobody was injured.
But one resident who has lived in his fl...

Metro • 24th February 2025

Chiltern Firehouse 'could take years to reopen' after pizza oven blaze

A luxury London hotel which was devastated by a fire could have to wait years before reopening, an architect has said.
Chiltern Firehouse was set to host a star-studded Bafta party when a fire broke out from a pizza oven on Valentine’s Day and ripped through the third floor and roof.
More than 100 people were evacuated from the blaze as it spread via the ducting.
Now an architect familiar with the hotel has said it could be years before their famous doors reopen.
Harriet Pillman, whose firm Dona...

Metro • 30th October 2024

Martin Lewis gives verdict on the 2024 Budget - as it happened

Martin Lewis described the Government’s plan to not make certain changes to child benefits as ‘bad news’ for single parents.
Major changes announced by Chancellor Rachel Reeves today included changes to employer National Insurance contributions, increases to Capital Gains tax, a fall in the price of pints and smokers paying more for hand-rolled tobacco.
But the finance expert said the Labour government’s decision to not shift child benefit to household income from individual income was ‘bad news...