Running hasn’t always been popular. It wasn’t until the mid-late 1970s when a jogging boom took off across the UK. Inspired by trends in the United States, there was a surge in interest in road running as a leisure activity and way of keeping fit and healthy. An estimated one million people now consider themselves...
Britain’s Olympic champion Keely Hodgkinson will return from injury to race in the women’s 800m at this summer’s London Athletics Meet on Saturday 19 July. The 23-year was forced to withdraw from February’s Keely Klassic in Birmingham because of a hamstring injury. At last year’s event at London Stadium, Hodgkinson set a meeting record, national...
Albert Alfonso/Flickr Yostin Mosquera, 34, Albert Alfonso, 62, and Paul Longworth, 71, pictured on a boat in Colombia A man murdered a couple, dismembered their bodies and then froze some of their remains before taking the rest in suitcases to the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol, a court has heard. Yostin Andres Mosquera filmed himself...
A man has been charged with a terrorism offence after allegedly attempting to enter the Israeli embassy in London with a knife on Monday. Abdullah Sabah Albadri, 33, of no fixed address, was charged on Wednesday with preparation of terrorist acts and two counts of possession of a bladed article, the Metropolitan Police has said....
Steven McIntosh Entertainment reporter Getty Images After his murder in 1997, Versace’s sister Donatella took over as the company’s creative director A major exhibition of Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace’s creations is to be staged in London this summer. The show will feature more than 450 original pieces, including outfits worn by Princess Diana, Kate...
The fathers of two girls killed in the Southport attack have completed the London Marathon in an emotional tribute to their daughters. Sergio Aguiar and David Stancombe entered the race to raise money for projects set up in their daughters’ memory. Alice Aguiar, nine, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and Bebe King, six, were killed last...
Two people have been arrested for throwing powder paint on Tower Bridge as the men’s elite runners were passing during the 45th edition of the London Marathon. A group called Youth Demand said two of its supporters jumped over the barriers and threw the substance on the bridge at about 10:35 BST. The Metropolitan Police...
Ethiopia’s Tigst Assefa surged to victory in a world record for a women’s only field in the London Marathon. The Olympic silver medallist burst clear of 2021 winner Joyciline Jepkosgei of Kenya with 10km to go before crossing the line in two hours 15 minutes and 50 seconds. Assefa beat the previous record, set by...
A man from Devon is set to compete in the London Marathon and attempt to break a world record in memory of his two babies who died. James Ashforth, 35, from Axminster, will take on the marathon on Sunday for his children Luca and Leila who were still-born. He has raised more than £6,000 so...
Watch: Starmer delivers message to dads of Southport victims running London Marathon Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has wished luck to two fathers whose daughters were killed in the Southport attack as they prepare to run the London Marathon. Sergio Aguiar and David Stancombe entered the race to raise money for projects set up in...
EPA Hundreds of people rallied in Westminster on Saturday afternoon for Just Stop Oil’s “last day of action” Hundreds of Just Stop Oil (JSO) protesters have marched through London for the group’s “last day of action”. A mass of people wearing JSO’s signature orange vests rallied in Westminster on Saturday afternoon after the group claimed...
FAMILY HANDOUT Lucy will run the London Marathon in memory of her mother, who died of cancer The youngest participant in the 2025 London Marathon will celebrate her 18th birthday on race day. Lucy, from Hull, will run her first marathon on Sunday alongside her dad to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Charity in memory...
Eliud Kipchoge, who became the first athlete to run a marathon in under two hours in 2019 and is widely regarded as the greatest distance runner in history, returns to the London Marathon for the first time since 2020. The record four-time winner is joined in the elite men’s race by defending champion Munyao and...
Diplomats from the UK, France, Germany, Ukraine and the US will hold fresh talks in London on Wednesday aimed at securing a ceasefire in the three-year war between Ukraine and Russia. The talks come amid growing speculation that Russia might be willing to halt its invasion along current front lines in return for significant concessions....
Fifty-nine decommissioned ambulances have been donated to Ukraine by the London Ambulance Service (LAS) since the start of the war in 2022, the service has said. The ambulances, which are helping to provide care for those in warzones or civilians injured, have been handed over to the charity British-Ukrainian Aid. The latest donation of nine...