London's Heathrow airport says airlines are using more giant wide-body super jumbos to escape the constraints of capacity curbs.

Comedian Russell Brand is considering running as London Mayor - despite saying that voting is a waste of time.

Thousands of passengers at Britain's biggest airport Heathrow face severe delays and cancelled flights due to stormy weather.

The recent detailed analysis of DNA collected from a shawl, allegedly of one of Jack the Ripper's first victims, appears to carry a fundamental maths error.

Australian DJ Mel Greig has attacked those who bullied her after 2DayFM's infamous 2012 prank phone call to the hospital treating Kate Middleton.

London police are refusing to comment on a claim they'd previously searched an area where the main suspect in the killing of a teenage girl was found hanged.

The British govt plans to criminalise the manipulation of more benchmarks to revive confidence in the integrity of London as a financial centre.

Daryl Tuffey and Mel Cairns will not face charges after being questioned in relation to the impending Chris Cairns perjury trial.

A show at London Fashion Week went ahead yesterday despite being interrupted by a builder crashing through the roof and falling about 9 metres to the ground.

A tiny house where residents have to climb on the kitchen units to reach a mezzanine bed is on the market in London.

Police have named the 82-year-old woman who was beheaded by machete in her back garden, as the motivation for the attack remains unclear.

An electronic, auction-based mechanism will replace a ritualised negotiation for silver pricing that's been in place for 117 years.

Personal stories distinguish this war museum, which has reopened on London's South Bank following an $80 million refurbishment. Its showpiece, the display in the new World War I Galleries, was completed just in time for the centenary of the century-defining conflict.

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The Herald's Geoff Cumming and Greg Bowker visit London's Imperial War Museum to mark the centenary of World War One's outbreak.

Police have released CCTV images showing the moment a child in a buggy on a London Underground platform was blown onto the track by a gust of wind.

Former motorsport boss Max Mosley may serve an injunction on Google over the continued publication of images of him taken at an orgy.

Years of history lie under the hallowed ground of one of the world's most famous cricket venues. But the best bit is the tea and scones ritual, writes Kevin Pilley.

The BBC explains why it won't investigate Rolf Harris's career at the corporation.

Rolf Harris' lawyer has told a court in the closing arguments of his sex trial that his client has been punished for his infidelity by public humiliation.

A friend of a New Zealander killed by a falling tree branch at the world-famous Kew Gardens in England has recounted the horrifying ordeal at an inquest.

Portuguese police sources have confirmed to a British newspaper that a number of suspects identified by Scotland Yard detectives will be arrested "in the very near future".

The mother and sister of a NZ man killed in London are ready to go there as soon as his body is released to the family.

One baby has died and 14 others are fighting for their lives after being poisoned in NHS neonatal care units in the UK.

Bruce Holmes traces the gruesome footsteps of London's most notorious serial killer, Jack the Ripper.

An Australian woman says she stopped eating and became a 'shell' of her former self after Rolf Harris assaulted her at a London pub.

The housing crisis in London is seeing home prices spiral to records and prompting a developer to build discounted homes for those shut out of the boom.

A band of foreign snakes that are said to be capable of crushing small children to death are on the loose in North London.

It's a London few have seen before. Data sets about people, property, burgeoning banker numbers and haemorrhaging of hedgehogs have been mapped and brought alive.