Hundreds gathered on the greenspace in London’s Old South on Saturday for Wortley Pride, an annual event celebrating 2SLGBTQIA+ communities. The festival featured music, performances, food trucks and art displays and vendors. The gathering also drew a small group of protesters. More than a dozen police officers kept watch on the sign-carrying demonstrators and a […]
London police responded faster to calls last year after five years of steady increases the chief called “totally unacceptable,” new figures show.
An 18-storey residential tower will rise, after all, from what’s now an open pit on Ridout Street after the developer struck a deal with city hall avoiding legal action. Tricar Group had sued the city over delays in development permits, but a changing of the guard in the city’s planning department has resulted in speedier […]
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More than two years after a reported theft of 45,000 chicks from a Huron County farm, OPP have laid charges – against the farmer who reported the theft. Huron OPP said Wednesday a 41-year-old South Huron man is charged with fraud over $5,000 and public mischief in a case one farmer described as “mind-boggling” when […]
From speakeasies and cocktail bars to independent breweries and restaurants, London has no shortage of spots to grab a drink far outside downtown's cluster of watering holes.
A 56-year-old is charged after London police say a man assaulted a couple he knew before forcibly taking their dog. It was about 11:30 a.m. on Thursday when city police say a man and woman were walking their dog in the 300 block of Wellington Road – just north of Base Line Road East, and […]
Here’s your primer on the five London-area races and ridings and the contests in the wider five-riding region for Monday’s federal election. LONDON CENTRE The riding: It’s sort of a new kid on the block this time with a new name — it had been London-North-Centre — and new boundaries that leave out the northernmost […]
The 18th annual London Heritage Awards were handed out Wednesday evening at Museum London
The reconstruction of a much-loved Old South coffee shop and bakery destroyed by fire two years ago has begun, with its owners eyeing a fall opening. The new Black Walnut Bakery and Cafe, at the corner of Wortley Road and Craig Street in London’s Wortley Village neighbourhood, is beginning to take shape as construction […]
