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    Doctors have warned the London Underground could be a hotbed for the spread of the highly-contagious coronavirus. There have been nine confirmed coronavirus cases in the UK confirmed so far, as British hospitals brace themselves for more. The Tube is used by an estimated 2 million people a day, and many more also use rail networks and buses in and around the bustling capital. An estimated 9 million people live in London, but the city's population swells to more than 10 million on an average day - taking into account commuters into the capital for work, tourists and visitors. The extensive transport network and huge population means tracking down potentially infected people is next to impossible to do with any urgency. The warning for Tube riders comes after a Lon...

    A curry house waiter who murdered his wife and daughters before fleeing the country 12 years ago has been jailed for life. Mohammed Abdul Shakur, 46, killed 26-year-old Juli Begum and their children Thanha, six, and Anika, five, leaving them in a bed at their home in Nelson Street, East Ham, on New Year's Day 2007. Shakur, who was 33 at the time of the offence and an illegal immigrant, was found guilty of three counts of murder on October 31 after a 10-day trial at the Old Bailey. His sentencing was adjourned following the guilty verdict to find out how much time he spent in custody in India. At his sentencing at the Old Bailey on Thursday, February 6 it emerged he spent 2,382 days in custody in India and the UK awaiting trial. As a result his concurrent minimum s...

    The tourist stabbed before his £115,000 Breguet Tourbillon watch was wrenched from his wrist in a 'shocking' and violent daylight robbery in London's Mayfair is a property developer from Manchester, MailOnline can reveal today. Bo Khan, 55, was knifed as three men took the timepiece in Berkeley Square in front of his horrified wife Karen, 56, on the final day of their romantic break to the capital on June 9 last year. Mr Khan says police have told him gangs of up to three men have been prowling Mayfair looking for victims - stabbing downwards into a victim's elbow with a razor-sharp knife to cut the tendons so they are paralysed when they grab valuable timepieces from wrists. The Mancunian property developer, who has shared images of his own horrific injuries, reve...

    A man has told Sky News how he helped one of the three people injured in the Streatham terror attack, saying he was bleeding out in a pool of blood. Dave Chawner said he was heading to the cinema when he saw what he thought was a shoplifting taking place with a man running down the street and bumping into someone before they fell to the ground and then got up again. He then heard shouting and what he thought was a car backfiring, followed by two minor explosions. He said he didn’t assume these were gunshots until he saw two police officers pointing a gun at an assailant. Mr Chawner said he saw a man on the other side of the road who was down on the ground and "not lucid". Mr Chawner had a blanket with him for his cinema visit, which was placed over the victim's w...

    Police have launched a desperate search for a mother after a newborn baby boy was found abandoned in a bush on a residential street in London. He was found wearing a grey babygrow and hat on Sandringham Road, Hackney, London, at around 11.40am today. Police were called by a passerby who discovered the little infant wrapped up in a white knitted blanket. Lauren Carter Smith's grandfather discovered the newborn. She wrote on Facebook: 'My grandad has just found a baby abandoned in a bush on Sandringham road hackney e8. If you know anything please contact the police. The baby is ok but might not have been if he wasn’t found! Can’t Imagine what goes through a mother’s head or what her circumstances are to have to come to this decision. She needs to be found. Please s...

    Three Sikh men stabbed to death in east London yesterday have been identified  as builders from India who died after a drunken row over unpaid work turned violent. Narinder Singh, 26, Harinder Kumar, 22, and Baljit Singh, 34, were stabbed to death and found covered in blood near Seven Kings station in Ilford at around 7.30pm on Sunday. One was stabbed in the neck, shoulder and chest, while another was discovered having been smashed in the head with a hammer. Witnesses heard one of the victims shouting: 'They killed me, help me!' as friends and relatives rushed to the devastating scene. A local businessman said the men were knifed to death after a large group of Indian men spilled out of a nearby restaurant, screaming and shouting in a furious drunken argument betw...

    The Queen has summoned senior royals to an emergency summit at her Sandringham estate in Norfolk on Monday to discuss the future of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. The meeting, to be attended by the Queen, Prince of Wales, Duke of Cambridge and Duke of Sussex, will be the first time the four have met since the Sussex crisis exploded on Wednesday. While the Queen has been in Norfolk, Charles has been at Birkhall in Scotland, William at Kensington Palace, and Harry at Windsor. The meeting will be an opportunity for them to discuss proposals, drawn up after a series of consultations between palace officials and representatives of the UK and Canadian governments over how Meghan and Harry can achieve their aim of carving out new “progressive” roles as hybrid royals. Th...

    The opening of London's Crossrail project has been delayed once again as the completion date was pushed back another six months to late 2021. Transport for London confirmed today that the central London section would not open until Autumn 2021 at the earliest, meaning the whole project will be three years behind schedule. The project, Europe's biggest ongoing infrastructure scheme, has been cursed with delays and is now estimated to cost more than £18billion. TfL commissioner Mike Brown told the London Assembly today that more time was needed to test trains before the scheme, to be called the Elizabeth line, could open. Once up and running, the line will run from Reading and Heathrow in the west to Shenfield and Abbey Wood in the east. Stage 4 of the scheme, in w...

    Britain's Big Ben bell in parliament's landmark clock tower will ring at midnight on New Year's Eve, marking the start of a year for the first time since its new face was revealed from under scaffolding halfway through restoration work. The work has seen the 96-metre-tall Elizabeth Tower, one of the most photographed buildings in Britain, enveloped in scaffolding for the last two years as the four clock dials are reglazed, ironwork repainted and intricately carved stonework cleaned and repaired. In March, part of the scaffolding was removed, showing that the clock's once black numerals and hands have been repainted blue, in line with what scientists say was its original colour. Since restoration work began in 2017, Big Ben has been largely silenced, sounding only f...

    Donald Trump is set to touch down in the UK for a whirlwind three-day visit that will bring protests by NHS workers and disruption for Londoners. As impeachment hearings continue in Washington, Trump is making his third visit to the capital as US president, this time for a Nato security summit that includes a reception hosted by the Queen. His visit comes as he faces a fight for his political life back at home and pressure from Prime Minister Boris Johnson not to meddle in the general election campaign. NHS workers are planning a protest outside Buckingham Palace and Londoners have already complained about the thundering noise of US military helicopters flying over the city. Here is everything you need to know about Trump's visit, which also comes just days after ...