Croydon (3,214) had the highest number of “violence with injuries” (ranging from actual bodily harm to life-threatening assaults) in year to June 2025, followed by Westminster (3,006), Lambeth (2,788), Newham 2,671), Brent 2,592, Greenwich (2,588), Lewisham (2,546), Southwark (2,532), Ealing (2,529) and Tower Hamlets (2,516).

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LONDON (AP) — British counterterrorism police arrested three men in London on Thursday on suspicion of spying for Russia.

British authorities on Thursday arrested three men suspected of spying for Russia, according to London's Metropolitan Police.

A London man has been arrested and charged in connection with an Oxford Street stabbing on Wednesday morning, police said. London police said a 28-year-old man was arrested at a home near Carlyle Drive and Speight Crescent in the east end of the city on Wednesday afternoon, hours after a man had been taken to hospital with serious injuries.

A British judge on Friday sentenced five men for their roles in an arson attack in London that authorities say was masterminded by Russian intelligence as part of a wider campaign of sabotage and disruption.

A 28-year-old London man is facing multiple charges after police allege he broke into two homes on Sunday morning, stole a vehicle, and later drove it into a marked police cruiser.

London police were asking the public for information after a man was seriously injured in a stabbing Wednesday morning. Emergency crews were called at around 5 a.m. to the area of Wharncliffe Road and Oxford Street, where a man with stab wounds was taken to hospital with serious injuries, police said.

NEW LONDON - The operator of a dirt bike was injured Friday after a crash involving a motor vehicle in the area of Broad and Corner streets, according to police. The crash occurred at about 7:30 p.m., according to New London Police Chief Brian M. Wright.

London police are investigating after a serious two-vehicle collision sent seven people to hospital early Saturday morning, three with life-threatening injuries.