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Powerful gusts of wind ripped down trees and foliage in north London, while videos shared across social media saw flash flooding completely submerge pavements and some roads in Peckham.
TOM UTLEY: How many of us can put our hands on our hearts and swear that we've never been guilty of offering imaginative excuses for the inexcusable? I certainly can't
London movers have driven up prices in some commuter belt villages by 10pc year-on-year The pandemic has revolutionised homebuyers' priorities. In this new series, we have found the best places to relocate to for a hybrid commute, working between home and a London office. First, we looked at where to buy with a budget of £300,000, £500,000 and £700,000. Now, here's what you can get for £1m Clive Moon, of Savills estate agents in Farnham, Surrey, said: "The higher the value of the property, the more likely the buyer is to be London-based." Savills has analysed property prices in villa...
An 'ordinary bloke': Leonard Rossiter as Reginald Perrin Credit: BBC “Mother rang – she wants to know if we’re going to see her on Sunday.” Cue the image of a hippopotamus trotting through the mud. The best-remembered gag from The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin is – almost 45 years since it first aired – still very funny. Sure, that hippo trots right into the category of standard Seventies mother-in-law material, but there’s really nothing standard about The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, which is now being repeated on BBC Four after being absent from our screens for decade...
RAIL passengers on South Western Railway services across the south west, including the Weymouth to London Waterloo line, are being warned of major disruption today. There is currently a severely reduced South Western Railway service running between Woking and Surbiton, due to a power surge in the track circuit system earlier today. Services that would normally run from Weymouth to London Waterloo have been affected, with services only going as far as Southampton and then back to Weymouth. That service has since been resumed, SWR said, with trains now running the full journey. Across...