Filed from the London desk — including multi-city pieces that also ran elsewhere.
Entertainment · 21 September 2026
Sharon Horgan’s latest half‑hour comedy, ‘Youth’, lampoons the trials of the sandwich generation with a book‑agent heroine whose love life is as tangled as the Underground at rush hour.
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Finance · 20 September 2026
Chiltern Railways, the operator that ferries commuters between London Marylebone and Birmingham, has slipped into public ownership as part of Labour’s push to re‑brand the nation’s rail network. The move raises fre…
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World · 20 September 2026
A suspicious fire at the Grand Burstin Hotel in Folkestone forced around 280 guests and nearby residents to flee, turning the seaside resort into a midnight corridor of bewildered evacuees and cold tea.
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Entertainment · 20 September 2026
The latest video‑game‑to‑screen conversion has provoked a surprising wave of aristocratic outrage, with the film’s director finding himself the unwitting centre of a polite yet fervent protest in the capital’s…
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Sports · 20 September 2026
Rory McIlroy starts the final day two shots off the leaders after a wobbling round, as Italy’s Manuel Elvira and Filippo Celli sit side‑by‑side at the top of the BMW PGA Championship leaderboard.
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World · 20 September 2026
As Germans head to the polls, Chancellor Friedrich Merz faces a cascade of state contests that could reshape his government, while his advisers scramble over stale tea and policy drafts.
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World · 20 September 2026
Earl Spencer has publicly accused King Charles of psychological manipulation, citing a gaslit treatment that mirrors the media’s assault on Princess Diana. The royal family’s private corridors are now the subject of…
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Sports · 20 September 2026
After a quarter‑century of empty Premier League trophies, Coventry City’s 1‑0 win over Nottingham Forest was decided by a disallowed goal and a single, well‑timed strike from Jay Dasilva, turning the match into a…
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Finance · 20 September 2026
For the sixth straight meeting, the Bank of England kept rates flat while quietly warning that a persistent energy‑price boom could push it to lift the peg again. City brass now wonder if their coffee will ever taste l…
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