London headlines of the day only. May be too many to list (UK). 17/June/2025
*Oxford Street report here: https://youtu.be/Q2DON2a_slU
a woman found fatally stabbed after a gas explosion at her home is named as 46-year-old charity worker annabelle rook i didn’t hear anything because like it i slept through it but i was woken up at like 7:00 by my dad being like “you hear the explosion?” because yeah but it’s i don’t know it’s just kind of insane a man’s been arrested on suspicion of murder we’ll have the latest also tonight pushing ahead with the pedestrianization of oxford street the mayor says urgent action is needed to give it a new lease of life we’ve been speaking to businesses on roads surrounding oxford street to find out if that pedestrianization does go ahead and traffic measures are changed what that could mean for them plus three weeks to find a new school for their kids the challenge facing some parents in southeast london we’ll explain and [Music] on a mission to retrieve dinosaur dna we chat to some of the stars of the latest jurassic world film a london-based people smuggling ring has been found guilty following a six-week trial the national crime agency said north african migrants were brought to the uk on tourist visas and then loaded into lries to france and charged up to £1,200 for the trip videos found showed people screaming for help in the back of a locked trailer more than £30,000 in fines for abandoned ebikes have been issued to lime and forest since the policy was introduced last year transport for london says it’s given 333 penalty notices to both companies forest said there was more work to do and lime said it took the issue very seriously and a new housing block in actton is to be a uk first in providing homes exclusively for women eling council says brook house will provide a lifeline to women and survivors of domestic abuse struggling to find a home and once completed will provide 102 genuinely affordable social rented flats