9+ hour, 37+ min ago  (888+ words) Unemployment in London is rising significantly faster than the rest of the UK as levels hit a 12-year high in January, according to figures taken from the London Datastore. The capital hit 7. 9% unemployment in January " the highest its been since…...

10+ hour, 48+ min ago  (813+ words) London's Natural History Museum is the most popular free museum in England, according to new figures from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). The Natural History Museum admitted 586, 304 visitors in March, the highest number for any DCMS-funded museum…...

10+ hour, 20+ min ago  (541+ words) Lev Yashin is the only goalkeeper ever to win the Ballon d'Or, an award he claimed in 1963 and one no other player in his position has matched since. More than 60 years on, he is still regarded by many as the…...

10+ hour, 59+ min ago  (832+ words) London boroughs which saw the biggest political shakeups at the May local elections saw an above-average increase in voter turnout. Turnout increased across the entire city " at an average of 6. 3 percentage points " after a slump in 2022, when all councils bar…...

11+ hour, 33+ min ago  (1529+ words) Londoners have the lowest participation in all three national cancer screening programmes, recent data from NHS Digital and NHS England shows. The coverage of breast, cervical and bowel cancer screening across London is only 60-65%, significantly below NHS targets and up…...

17+ hour, 8+ min ago  (855+ words) Women are a third more likely to visit a library than men, with 30% of them walking through library doors in 2024/25, compared to 22% of men. And, whilst women's physical engagement in libraries increased by two percentage points between 2023/24 (28%) and 2024/2025, men's engagement…...

13+ hour, 32+ min ago  (752+ words) A negative split at London Marathon is the running holy grail: and a decade of data proves that 19 in every 20 participants succumb to the fade in the second half. Chip timing from London Marathon Events tracked more than 320, 000 runners" journeys…...

17+ hour, 27+ min ago  (700+ words) ADHD self-reports have risen by more than 40% in 10 years, but official diagnoses have not kept up, according to NHS England data. Data from The Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey shows positive ADHD self-report screenings in adults have rised from one in…...

15+ hour, 21+ min ago  (895+ words) Access to creative education and extracurricular activities has significantly declined over the past decade in some of London's poorest boroughs, new data reveals. A strong indicator of this drop is the fall of GCSE arts-related subjects, including Drama, Music, and…...

17+ hour, 58+ min ago  (1283+ words) More than a third of doctors in the NHS are non-British " recent NHS data has shown " which is over double the amount of those born abroad living in the country. The latest House of Commons statistics show that 16% of the…...