La Maritxu has announced a fourth site in Coal Drops Yard, behind King's Cross station, expanding from its original location in Connaught Village. Founded in 2021, the shop has gained popularity for its rich and creamy Basque cheesecakes, baked in the traditional Bilbao style to achieve a distinctive dark exterior and silky center.
Three teenagers who posed for selfies after killing a 51-year-old homeless man outside King's Cross station have been sentenced to a combined 23 years in prison. Mia Campos-Jorge, 19, Eymaiyah Lee Bradshaw-McKoy, 18, and Jaidee Bingham, 18, repeatedly kicked Anthony Marks, beat him with a gin bottle and hit him with a car bonnet in August 2024 in a county lines retribution attack.
I'm thrilled to be opening our new venue in King's Cross. Our goal is to bring the freshness, vibrancy, and natural goodness of Vietnamese food to even more people. HOP was born from my love of Vietnam and its food culture, and we want every dish to feel authentic, nourishing, and fast-perfect for busy Londoners who don't want to compromise on taste.
Once a London district made up of neon-lit sex shops and late-night clubs, King's Cross has been polished by regeneration, yet here, the curators draw on the history of the space to choreograph a dialogue between art, architecture, and the city, attempting to explore how contemporary artistic practices might inhabit, and even provoke, the residues of urban change and regeneration.
Deep in the grimy, dimly lit back roads of King's Cross is a pub, a boozer in the truest sense of the word. McGlynn's, it's called, and when its landlord Jerry died in 2023, the pub died with him; it became just another ex-pub in a city full of ex-pubs. It was a special, unique place, a surviving slice of pre-gentrification London where you could still get a round in without taking out a mortgage,
A man protesting about freedom in Iran has scaled the King's Cross clock tower while holding a dog. The activist, wearing a black T-shirt with the slogan no to war, has unfurled a banner featuring the words Freedom for Iran and Iran belongs to its people. Bizarrely, he performed the stunt on Tuesday morning while holding a dog which was spotted with him at the top of the station structure.
Kings Cross station is experiencing major disruption due to multiple signal faults around Peterborough, with specific services facing cancellations and delays of up to an hour.
