London Love Stories with Katie Strick: Richard Curtis special
A special festive edition of London Love Stories with Katie Strick for The Standard podcast. Legendary British filmmaker Richard Curtis discusses his love affair with the capital and how it inspired h...
27 Dec 202323min
Thank you, London! Standard’s Winter Survival Appeal hits £2.4million
The total raised by the Evening Standard’s Winter Survival Appeal in partnership with Comic Relief has swelled to £2.4 million - thanks to a final surge in public donations to £200,000.With one millio...
22 Dec 202312min
‘Nightmare’ Hyde Park Corner overcrowding & Tube strike pledge
It was a “nightmare” before Christmas at Hyde Park Corner tube station with “unsafe” scenes caused by train delays and “staggering levels of criminal and antisocial behaviour” from some people apparen...
21 Dec 202311min
Medics strike as London A&Es swamped in party season
NHS bosses are warning London hospitals are under “extraordinary pressure” due to a “high volume of sick people” as junior doctors began their 26th day of strike action.Members of the British Medical ...
20 Dec 202310min
Deadly China earthquake & Iceland volcano emergency
Two emergencies are unfolding in China and Iceland.At least 126 people were reportedly killed in a magnitude 6.2 earthquake in a freezing, mountainous region of north-western China, on the Tibetan Pla...
19 Dec 202310min
Can Baroness Mone’s peerage survive Covid PPE scandal?
Baroness Mone has admitted that she stands to profit from a contract between the Government and PPE firm Medpro, but insisted that she and her husband Doug Barrowman have “no case to answer”.The Conse...
18 Dec 202310min
Bernadette Peters & Lea Salonga on Sondheim’s Old Friends
Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga sit down with our Deputy Culture Editor, Nick Clark backstage at the Gielgud Theatre. The West End and Broadway legends are currently starring in Stephen Sondheim's O...
16 Dec 202310min
Alex Batty: The incredible story of a missing boy found after 6 years
How Alex Batty was found after six years. The British boy went missing in October 2017 when he was 11 years old. This week, the now teenager was picked up by a lorry driver after 'walking in the Frenc...
15 Dec 202310min
