There are plenty of great little places kicking about on Brixton Road, and for a while, Café Van Gogh was one of them. Known for serving tasty vegan food from breakfast through dinner, sweet treats and cheeky 2-4-1 margaritas on Thursday nights, this place was at the heart of the community. However, the café has sadly just closed it’s doors.

This treasured south London non-profit café has just closed for good

Summer is here and so are a bunch of brilliant new restaurants, festivals, pop-up events and more food related excellence. We’re particularly excited about the sprawling new Dalston Yard just off Dalston Lane, which seems to have more places to eat than a single city borough. We’re not currently sure how we’re going to carve out enough time to munch our way through the whole space, but we’re going to give it a damn good try, starting with Denai Moore's vegan patty stand. There's also a BBQ to be reckoned with in Tottenham, as 12:51 main man James Cochran takes over his local and schools north London in the way of pineapple jam glazed pork ribs for a whole weekend.

The 8 best new London restaurant openings in July

Another day, another palatial penthouse. London is full of them, it seems – and this penthouse at The Whiteley just happens to boast a private terrace of record-breaking proportions. Take a look. Inside The Whiteley’s £39.5 Million Penthouse. Fancy living on the site of London’s first ever...

Look Inside… A £39.5 Million Penthouse Complete With London’s Largest Terrace

Gazing out of a bus window as she travelled through east London one rainswept evening, Harriet Armstrong was struck by a flash of inspiration. "There's a Chinese takeaway in Leyton called Good Friend and I peered in through the window and there were just people sitting there waiting for their food.

'Why I'm photographing every London Chinese takeaway'

Already seen Buckingham Palace and been on the London Eye? If you’re stuck for ideas on how to spend your time in the city, look no further than this quintessentially British walking tour of London’s pubs, which has been crowned TripAdvisor’s best thing to do in the UK for two years on the trot.

This London pub crawl has been designated the best thing to do in the UK (for two years in a row)

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Do you know anyone who has dual nature? Such two-faced zodiac signs are friendly but they gossip about others behind their backs. They can lie to you without batting an eyelid. However, detecting a two-faced person isn’t easy for everyone. They often compliment their friends when they achieve a goal or change their wardrobe. But they will make negative remarks about you to someone else. What other traits do two-faced people have?

3 Zodiac Signs Who Are Two-Faced

More than 100 cannabis plants have been seized from a property and will be destroyed, said police. Essex Police found the cannabis plants in a house in Mallows Green, Harlow, Essex, at about 06:00 BST on Monday. A spokesperson from the force said the property had a "sophisticated" set up...

More than 100 cannabis plants found in Essex home

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A BRITISH woman gang-raped on the streets of Paris after a music festival may have been filmed by her attackers, investigators fear. The tourist was found sobbing in the street in the early hours of Saturday morning after she was assaulted by a gang of hooded men. It follows similar attacks at the event in […]

Brit tourist ‘gang-raped in street by hooded men who filmed attack on their phones as she walked home’ in lawless Paris

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The FBI has seen a rise in scams targeting timeshare owners. In this kind of scam, criminals con these part-time property owners into shelling out hefty sums of cash, all under false pretenses related to their timeshare properties.

FBI warns that Mexican cartels are targeting Americans with timeshare scams

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Beavers have been found to be living on the River Stour in Dorset in the latest sign of a comeback by the dam-making mammal.Dorset Wildlife Trust has confirmed that a recently planted tree had been felled by a beaver although it was unable to determine how many were living in the area.A spokesman said: “Recent evidence indicates that beavers are now living on the River Stour in Dorset.“Beaver feeding signs have been discovered in several areas along the Stour and are a clear sign that beavers are present along the river, but in unknown numbers and distribution.“One discovery by a...

Signs of beavers living by Dorset river confirmed by wildlife trust

A mum whose son was killed after being stabbed said the response to a sculpture highlighting knife crime has been "overwhelming". The Knife Angel, which is made from 100,000 seized blades and knives, will leave Sunderland on Friday after a month-long stay. Tanya Brown, who helped bring the sculpture to...

Family 'overwhelmed' by Knife Angel response

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Almost 12,000 rough sleepers were seen by outreach workers in 2023-24, a 19% increase on the previous year

Rough sleeping in London hits highest level in a decade

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Nine drug dealers who exploited a 16-year-old boy to sell crack cocaine and heroin in north London have been sentenced. Chris Moran, Terell Prescott and Shaquille Allen’s gang even blackmailed the teenager over a debt to sell drugs for them to users in Camden and Islington. The youngster, who has now been safeguarded by Metropolitan Police officers, was arrested along with two other males during Operation Mackerel.Detectives linked the trio to a wider network operating in the N1 postcode.Dawn raids were carried out in Islington, Hackney, Haringey and the Hertfordshire towns of London Colney and Welwyn Garden City in October...

Crack cocaine gang blackmailed boy, 16, and inflicted ‘misery’ on Islington and Camden

A man and a woman have been jailed for modern slavery offences after a “dishevelled” boy was found with heroin at London Bridge station.The British Transport Police found the vulnerable 15-year-old at the station on September 22, who claimed he had been staying with a friend.Safeguarding procedures were immediately implemented and the child admitted to be carrying heroin.Days later, officers raided an address and arrested Karen Seddon, 38, and Peace Bello, 21, for being concerned in the supply of Class A drugs and human trafficking and modern slavery offences.Bello was found to be in possession of a county line drugs...

Pair jailed for modern slavery offences after 'dishevelled' boy found with heroin at London Bridge station

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Strap into your skates and get roller-disco ready, because there’s a free roller rink in Kendall Square all summer long—with a beer garden and more. Rollerama at Kendall Common, a pop-up roller rink and social space, opens Friday, June 28, at the corner of Third and Broadway near Kendall/MIT on the Red Line. Located in Cambridge’s Innovation District, it’s produced by MIT’s real estate group, which is developing the 10-acre site of a former national transportation systems center over the next few years, to include commercial and residential buildings as well as four parks and a community center. This is the first summer of programming from the newly dubbed Kendall Common.

A free roller rink pops up this summer in Kendall Square

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 As the desperate search for missing British teenager Jay Slater continues, The Independent’s Holly Evans has travelled to Tenerife to bring readers the latest in the ongoing investigation.The 19-year-old from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, disappeared in Tenerife over a week ago following an attempt to walk back to his accommodation after missing a bus.He had attended the NRG music festival on the island with two friends before his disappearance.The location where Mr Slater’s phone pinged last Monday (17 June) is in an area of difficult terrain, with a narrow path and dramatic drops into the mountains.Today (25 June), four police cars can be seen in the background.      Read More               Former police chief constable hits out at Jay Slater armchair detectivesCarol Vorderman backlash as presenter links own ‘disappearance’ to missing Jay SlaterJay Slater searchers narrow efforts to outbuildings near where phone last pinged      

‘There isn’t much here’: Exploring the isolated Tenerife landscape of Jay Slater’s last known location

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(Colorado) Colorado has many gems - Pikes Peak, Rocky Mountain National Park, Maroon Bells, and two of Thomas Dambo's wooden trolls. Dambo is a Danish artist, and his trolls are worldwide. Each troll serves as a unique tribute to the place they inhabit, honoring the history and culture of the location.

"Rita the Rock Planter" should be on your Colorado summer bucket list

In news that will surprise no Sydneysider who has brought up the cost-of-living crisis in the last convo they had (so, pretty much all of us): Sydney has fallen in the global rankings of “most liveable cities”. After all, it was just confirmed we’re living in the second most expensive place in all of the world to buy a home. What may surprise you, though, is that our city has also maintained its status within the top-ten most liveable cities, comparative to other places throughout the world. Last year, Sydney placed fourth in the world in this same Index – and this year, we’ve dropped down to equal seventh with Vancouver (another city with a drop-dead gorgeous harbour), due to a decreased infrastructure score.

Sydney has dropped in the global liveable cities rankings (but the results may surprise you)

Police raiding an east London drugs factory discovered a firearm and 300 rounds of ammunition.Officers had Thompson Caninhas, 30, under surveillance when he was observed lugging a large number of heavy packages. They arrested Caninhas as he took a suspicious bag filled with drugs out of his car.Detectives then conducted a search of a property on Downs Road, Hackney in July last year. A room inside had been dedicated to the preparation and packaging of heroin and cocaine.The setup, controlled by the gangster, included a ten tonne drug press, bags of brown powder and blocks of various substances and kitchen...

'Dangerous' gangster jailed for storing gun at drugs factory in Hackney

A Metropolitan police officer is facing a criminal charge of misconduct after allegedly stealing money from the body of a man who had died in the street. PC Craig Carter, 51, has been charged with misconduct in public office over the alleged incident in September 2022. The officer, who lives in Harlow in Essex, appeared at Westminster magistrates court in central London on Friday to face the allegation for the first time. It is alleged PC Carter “willfully and without reasonable excuse or justification misconducted yourself in a way which amounted to an abuse of the public's trust in the...

Metropolitan Police officer accused of stealing money from a dead man

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East London is getting a new skyscraper

The City of London’s eastern fringe has been blessed - or cursed, depending on your tastes - with an iconic collection of towers which is still...

East London is getting a new skyscraper

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