This is Local London4d
A brief history of the Metropolitan line in four maps
The Metropolitan line is the oldest underground ... Shepherds Bush and Hammersmith in west London, and Moorgate in east London. A northern spur of the line was also soon up and running, carrying ...
Londonist25d
The Moorgate Tube Crash: Half A Century On
On 28 February 1975, a London Underground train sped into Moorgate station during the height of the morning rush hour. It did not stop at the platform, but carried on without slowing. Moments ...
Metro28d
London’s worst Tube crash saw 43 lose their lives – why it happened is still a mystery
The Moorgate disaster happened 50 years ago on the London Underground (Picture: PA) One of Britain’s worst transport disasters struck deep underground at the London Moorgate station – but 50 ...
NBC News2d
Heathrow resumes some flights after fire and power outage shut down London airport
The Metropolitan Police provided an update ... a professor of sociology of education at Israel’s Ben Gurion University, is stuck in London. “I’m not only missing my own talk, I’m missing ...
NBC News6d
London's Heathrow airport resumes flights after a huge fire caused a power outage
The London Metropolitan Police’s counterterrorism ... Robin Preece of the University of Manchester said. Oil is used to cool transformers at substations, he explained, but “if there is a ...
London Evening Standard28d
50 years on from Moorgate crash, what caused the worst Tube disaster in peacetime remains a mystery
A memorial service was held to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1975 Moorgate Tube crash in which 43 people died and 74 were injured. It remains the worst peace-time disaster on the London ...
BBC28d
Service marks 50 years since Moorgate Tube crash
Commemorations have taken place to mark 50 years since the Moorgate Tube crash which killed 43 people and left 74 injured. The London Fire Brigade (LFB) joined Transport for London (TfL ...
The New York Times6d
Flights Resume at Heathrow After Fire Forced Its Closure
“After initial assessment, we are not treating this incident as suspicious,” London’s Metropolitan Police ... Henry Kofman, 20, a sophomore at the University of Southern California, chose ...
London Evening Standard22d
London's worst sex offender? PhD student feared to have attacked over 60 women as jury delivers guilty verdicts
A London PhD student believed to be one of Britain ... When two of his victims came forward to speak about their ordeals, Metropolitan Police officers arrested Zou and uncovered a horrifying ...
Manchester Evening News9d
Woman killed and two people injured after van crash in London
A woman in her 20s has died and two people have been injured after they were hit by a van in central London. The Metropolitan Police said they were called to the crash near the Strand at 11.41am ...
Architects' Journal28d
London School of Architecture becomes part of online university
The London School of Architecture (LSA) is set to become a part of online university the University College of Estate Management (UCEM) In an announcement to students this morning (28 February), the ...