Andy Silvester
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Back in 2011, Turkish media was all over a star 17-year-old left back who was on his way to Real Madrid. The teenager did TV and newspaper interviewers, and his social media showed him at the Bernebeu.
It was all made up. Oh, and he's now deputy mayor of London
www.thetimes.com/article/9a6b...
It was all made up. Oh, and he's now deputy mayor of London
www.thetimes.com/article/9a6b...
The Sadiq Khan deputy who faked a football career on social media
Before earning £148,000 a year at City Hall, Mete Coban was known in the sports press as a starlet with the world at his feet. The problem is it wasn’t true
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May 10, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Back in 2011, Turkish media was all over a star 17-year-old left back who was on his way to Real Madrid. The teenager did TV and newspaper interviewers, and his social media showed him at the Bernebeu.
It was all made up. Oh, and he's now deputy mayor of London
www.thetimes.com/article/9a6b...
It was all made up. Oh, and he's now deputy mayor of London
www.thetimes.com/article/9a6b...
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Borough Market is hiring: could you be the new boss?
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Borough Market is hiring: could you be the new boss?
London’s foodie paradise has been rocked by a row with a greengrocer — but how do Turnips’ chocolate strawberries fare in our food editor’s taste test?
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April 5, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Borough Market is hiring: could you be the new boss?
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How the South Bank went from derelict to desirable
The area has been transformed since the days of decrepit wharfs and warehouses — and the change is continuing
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April 15, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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50 years ago today, a tube driver went to work with £270 in his pocket, which he said was to buy his daughter a car.
A few hours later, 43 people were dead after that same driver careened into a wall at Moorgate station.
Why? Well, nobody knows.
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A few hours later, 43 people were dead after that same driver careened into a wall at Moorgate station.
Why? Well, nobody knows.
www.thetimes.com/uk/london/ar...
Fifty years after the Moorgate Tube disaster, one question remains
It was the worst crash in London Underground history, killing 43 people in a storm of metal. Was it suicide?
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February 28, 2025 at 8:42 AM
50 years ago today, a tube driver went to work with £270 in his pocket, which he said was to buy his daughter a car.
A few hours later, 43 people were dead after that same driver careened into a wall at Moorgate station.
Why? Well, nobody knows.
www.thetimes.com/uk/london/ar...
A few hours later, 43 people were dead after that same driver careened into a wall at Moorgate station.
Why? Well, nobody knows.
www.thetimes.com/uk/london/ar...
Phone calls? Laptops? 5G on the tube throws up all sorts of etiquette issues - so we've published the dos and don'ts www.thetimes.com/uk/london/ar...
Phone calls? So rude. The new rules for the 5G-enabled Tube
The Underground will no longer be a safe space away from ringing smartphones. Liz Conner asks etiquette experts Debrett’s whether it’s ever OK to take a call
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February 20, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Phone calls? Laptops? 5G on the tube throws up all sorts of etiquette issues - so we've published the dos and don'ts www.thetimes.com/uk/london/ar...
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February 15, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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Hospitality businesses are having a tough enough time already. Now the seemingly endless Overground weekend closures are making life even more difficult www.thetimes.com/article/1598...
London Overground closures most weekends — and hospitality is hurting
The rebranded Overground lines are regularly closed and disrupted during Londoners’ days off, leaving nightlife hotspots in Peckham and Dalston counting the cost
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February 7, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Hospitality businesses are having a tough enough time already. Now the seemingly endless Overground weekend closures are making life even more difficult www.thetimes.com/article/1598...
Even London's official 'cycleways' are often unlit - and dangerous. Runners don't have it much better. Here's Sian Bradley and Ella Hodson on why women are abandoning their winter exercise www.thetimes.com/uk/london/ar...
Unlit London parks ‘stop women running and cycling in winter’
Research suggests that the capital’s cycleways leave women feeling isolated and unsafe, and it is not much better for those jogging in the dark either
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February 7, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Even London's official 'cycleways' are often unlit - and dangerous. Runners don't have it much better. Here's Sian Bradley and Ella Hodson on why women are abandoning their winter exercise www.thetimes.com/uk/london/ar...
There were more than thirty greyhound racetracks in London after the war. Now there’s one. We sent Patrick Kidd to meet the people who still care, at the last night of racing at Crayford
www.thetimes.com/article/b2d2...
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Only one greyhound track left in London as Crayford bows out with a whimper
Where once there were 33 venues to watch dog racing inside the M25, now only one remains. Patrick Kidd joins the 875 punters paying final respects to the second to last in southeast London
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January 21, 2025 at 9:10 AM
There were more than thirty greyhound racetracks in London after the war. Now there’s one. We sent Patrick Kidd to meet the people who still care, at the last night of racing at Crayford
www.thetimes.com/article/b2d2...
www.thetimes.com/article/b2d2...