On the west London estate where Chloe Kelly grew up

On the west London estate where Chloe Kelly grew up

There was no mistaking the family home of Chloe Kelly when she scored the penalty yesterday which sent the Lionesses through to the quarter-finals of the women’s world cup. St George’s flags... Read more »
Student, 21, who was carried by Jonny Bairstow in Just Stop Oil’s protest grew up in £5.2m house

Student, 21, who was carried by Jonny Bairstow in Just Stop Oil’s protest grew up in £5.2m house

The Just Stop Oil eco-nut carried off the Lord’s pitch by Jonny Bairstow is the super-privileged son of multi-millionaire parents and grew up in a £5.2million mansion in an exclusive north London... Read more »
El Shafee Elsheikh: The ISIS Beatle known as ‘Ringo’, who grew up in west London and went to Syria | World News

El Shafee Elsheikh: The ISIS Beatle known as ‘Ringo’, who grew up in west London and went to Syria | World News

El Shafee Elsheikh, known to his victims as “Ringo”, grew up in White City, west London, after his family arrived from Sudan in 1993 when he was five. His father was a... Read more »
‘I grew yam on my veranda’: inside London’s little-known Windrush gardens | Gardens

‘I grew yam on my veranda’: inside London’s little-known Windrush gardens | Gardens

From yams to chocho to ackee, a new exhibition is shining a light on south London’s Caribbean gardens, created by the Windrush generation who moved to Britain after the second world war.... Read more »
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‘I grew up watching friends die – now I dedicate my life to getting knives off the streets’

London is a city which has long been gripped by the devastating effects of knife crime. One man who knows this better than most is Ryan Biddiss, 26, who grew up in... Read more »
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Singer Adele’s modest Tottenham home where she grew up and all the stunning houses she now owns

Famous singer-songwriter Adele has built up an impressive collection of houses which spreads across the Atlantic. She has several houses and estates in the USA as well as the UK. But she... Read more »
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‘I grew up in care since I was 4 months old never knew my dad – 19 years later I met him by chance’

Thousands of children across London live in care homes and grow up not knowing who their parents or family members are. Kids of all ages from different boroughs across the capital are... Read more »
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Friends who grew up on West London council estates now rising stars in the UK fashion industry

“The industry wouldn’t make an area for individuals like us, so we made an area for ourselves.” This house has since change into widespread YouTube channel Wears My TV (WMTV). Launched in... Read more »
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How Britain’s first Black radio station began on a Brixton estate and grew to be one of the largest in the UK

When it was first arrange in a little studio on a Brixton housing estate in the Nineteen Nineties as Britain’s first black radio station, few imagined the success that Choice FM would... Read more »
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How London grew its green spaces

For metropolis dwellers who can not get out to the countryside, one answer is to convey the countryside into the town. In the first-century AD, the Roman poet Martial coined the phrase... Read more »