Kieran Kelly

LBC • 1st November 2022

Boris Johnson confirms he will attend COP27 piling more pressure on Rishi Sunak

Boris Johnson confirms he will attend COP27 piling more pressure on Rishi Sunak to attend

Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson has confirmed he will be attending Cop27 in Egypt as calls for current PM Rishi Sunak to reverse his decision to skip the conference continue to grow.

Mr Johnson said he was attending after being "invited by the Egyptians", where the climate conference is being hosted. Speaking to Sky News, he added that he was "very happy to" after the UK hosted the Cop26 summit in Gla

LBC • 1st November 2022

'Senseless': Migos rapper Takeoff shot dead in Texas

American rapper Takeoff has reportedly been shot to death in Houston at the age of 28.

The 28-year-old rapper and third member of rap group Migos, alongside Quavo and Offset, was fatally shot inside a bowling alley in Houston, TMZ has reported.

The rapper, whose real name is Kirshnik Khari Ball, was with Quavo at the time. The pair had been playing dice until the early hours of this morning. Takeoff was pronounced dead at the scene, while Quavo left the scene unharmed.

Officers from Houston's

LBC • 1st November 2022

Royal Mail suffers data breach as customers 'can see each other's orders'

Royal Mail suffers data breach as customers 'can see each other's orders'

Royal Mail's Click and Drop website has been disabled as technicians work to fix a data breach that has allowed some customers to see other people's orders.

Royal Mail took the decision to temporarily suspend the website at 2pm as a "protective measure".

A statement on the Click and Drop website reads: "Royal Mail has temporarily suspended its Click and Drop website as a precautionary measure following reports that a li

LBC • 1st November 2022

Former MP Lembit Öpik says public will 'punish' Matt Hancock on I'm a Celeb

Former MP Lembit Öpik says public will 'punish' Matt Hancock on I'm a Celeb

Ex-MP and I'm a Celeb contestant Lembit Öpik has said the public will "punish" former health secretary Matt Hancock by voting for him to do gruesome trials on the show.

Mr Hancock was announced as the game show's twelfth contestant, causing him to be stripped of the Tory whip. His decision to appear on the ITV gameshow has prompted a furious backlash and his friend Öpik said the public will now vote for him to do grues

MyLondon • 1st November 2022

Deliveroo driver who died in 'shooting' was due to go home to Brazil in a month

A man who died after a 'shooting' in Brixton has been named for the first time as Guilherme Mesias da Silva - a 21-year-old Deliveroo driver from Brazil. According to Paolo, one of Guilherme's friends at the crime scene, he had 'no family here' and it was his 'last week working in the UK before he planned to go back to Brazil'.

Paolo told MyLondon: “I knew him for 2 years. He was a good boy, hard working.” Guilherme was driving his moped along Railton Road shortly before 8pm on Sunday, October

MyLondon • 31st October 2022

Man shot dead in Brixton named as police reveal Deliveroo driver died in crash

A man shot dead in Brixton has been named as a popular UK drill artist. Rapper Perm was gunned down on Railton Road on Sunday night (October 30), with the car he is believed to have been in crashing into a Deliveroo driver on his moped who also died at the scene. A cordon is currently in place on Railton Road, where local residents have described 12 shots being fired between "a pair on a moped and people in a car" just before 8pm earlier this evening. The Met Police confirmed this afternoon: "At

MyLondon • 31st October 2022

Brother and sister spend £2,000 transforming West London home for Halloween

A family has spent around £2,000 putting together a haunted Halloween display on their driveway at their home in West London. Adam and Kayleigh Cloke, who are brother and sister, have been putting together a Halloween display for the community ever since they were kids.

The haunted display, put together under a gazebo connected to their house on Willow Avenue, West Drayton, featured a range of Halloween classics, from fresh pumpkins and nasty witches to scary spiders and a grim reaper.

Adam, 3

MyLondon • 28th October 2022

'My café has lost half of customers due to roadworks & the council doesn't care'

A woman is worried for the future of her business as ongoing roadworks have caused customer levels to drop by more than 50 per cent. Ruken Taylan is one of the sisters who owns Parlé Pantry, a vegan café on the corner of Cranbrook Road and Chiswick High Road in Hounslow, West London.

Ruken and her sister Dee have been running the café for four years, coming through a pandemic and struggling with the ongoing cost of living crisis. The roadworks, which have been in place since the start of the m

MyLondon • 28th October 2022

'I was jailed for 2 months for blocking the M25 - I would do it all over again'

An activist who spent two months in prison after blocking the M25 in a climate protest said he would do it all over again, adding that the threat of climate change is "too great". Tim Speers, 36, hadn't always thought this way. In fact, just five years ago, Tim was living in his 'own little world' as a professional poker player in Walthamstow, East London.

"I went from being from involved in absolutely nothing to being quite radicalised," Tim reflected. "It was a journey. I used to be a profess

MyLondon • 27th October 2022

Victims of Ilford shooting named for the first time as killer still on loose

The victims of a double shooting in Ilford which took place in the early hours of Tuesday morning (October, 25) have been named for the first time. Saydi Abu Sheikh, 23, and Zakariya Jeilani Mohamed, 32, who were both from Ilford, died from gunshot wounds after '20 shots' were fired.

Police rushed to the scene in Henley Road shortly after midnight on Tuesday, where they found Sheikh and Mohamed with gunshot wounds. Both died at the scene. A third victim, in his 30s, was rushed to hospital, wher