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Sir Mick Jagger steps out with fiancée Melanie Hamrick at V&A Summer Party after teasing Rolling Stones tour return

The Rolling Stones frontman, 82, looked in high spirits as he posed with Hamrick, 38, at the annual fundraiser held at the V&A Museum in South Kensington

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Small boat asylum seeker guilty of raping woman at London hostel

Iraqi asylum seeker Yousif Al-Maliki, 30, carried out the attack on a woman he had just met while staying at a hostel in South Kensington

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Transformation of one of London's busiest Tube stations takes major step forward

South Kensington Tube Station will get step-free access to the District and Circle line platforms and the Piccadilly line

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Four police officers injured and 14 arrested after ‘violent’ clashes outside Iran’s London embassy

The London Ambulance Service was called to the unrest in South Kensington at 8.45pm

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Four police officers injured in violent clashes outside Iranian embassy in London

Missiles were thrown at officers and 14 people arrested as violence erupted outside the embassy in South Kensington

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Asylum seeker denies raping woman in London hostel after arriving in the UK illegally

Yousif Al-Maliki, 31, is accused of raping and sexually assaulting the woman at the Astor Hostel in South Kensington on August 1

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Asylum seeker denies raping and sexually assaulting woman in London hostel

Iraqi national Yousif Al-Maliki is accused of attacking the woman at the Astor Hostel in South Kensington on August 1.

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Moment shoplifters caught stealing baby clothes worth £800 from boutique popular with Princess of Wales

Metropolitan Police officers appeal for information over theft on Walton Street, South Kensington

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Black student alleges years of racist abuse at £17,000-a-year French school in London

A sixth-former at the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle in South Kensington alleged that she had been called a ‘monkey’

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OPINION - Tanni Grey-Thompson: It is shocking that a Tube station like South Kensington is still not step-free

This summer, the VA Museum opens its doors to a new exhibition Design and Disability, which aims to celebrate the creative force of Disabled, Deaf and neurodivergent people across design, art and culture. Described as “both a celebration and a call to action”, the exhibition will highlight the many ways…

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Council offers £12m to revamp overcrowded and inaccessible 'tourist hotspot' Tube station

South Kensington is gateway to Natural History Museum, Science Museum and V&A but has no step-free access

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More than 100 evacuated and nearly a dozen injured after fire in South Kensington

Eleven people treated for smoke inhalation after fire breaks out in residential building in London

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South Kensington fire: 11 people rushed to hospital and five rescued after blaze breaks out in five-storey building

Five people rescued from five-storey building as 15 fire engines and about 100 firefighters tackle blaze

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South Kensington balcony listed for £50,000 finds new owner - who wants it for its parking permit

The third floor balcony on Stanhope Gardens, near Gloucester Road, was listed for £50,000 in July. It is in the process of being sold for £35,000

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Builder who gambled South Kensington resident's money instead of completing £700,000 home refurbishment jailed

Jimmy Lee spent a 'substantial' amount of money he was given in casinos

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Thousands of lost property items unclaimed every week, TfL says

The transport authority moved its lost property office from South Kensington to West Ham to accommodate the rising number of objects being stored.

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Naomi Campbell: British supermodel’s career to be honoured in new V&A exhibition

‘NAOMI’ marks first time the South Kensington museum has held an exhibition focusing on the career of a fashion model

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Gourmet menu for Rishi Sunak's daughter as 4m pupils go hungry in free school meals row

The PM's girl Anoushka, 10, attends £22,000-a-year Glendower Prep in South Kensington, London – where pupils enjoy a menu that bosses boast 'can’t be bettered'

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Hero SAS soldier who helped rescue hostages in 1980 Iranian Embassy siege dies

Mel Parry, who reportedly died yesterday from a "very long illness", was involved in the mission to rescue dozens of hostages from armed Arab separatists who stormed the embassy in South Kensington in 1980

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London Craft Week 2023: What is happening and when in the capital

Events will take place all over London, from Soho to South Kensington, Hammersmith to Hackney

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What fans could see at London’s new Star Wars exhibition

The Fans Strike Back is coming to South Kensington.

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Largest ever dinosaur to be shown at South Kensington’s Natural History Museum - if it will fit

The skeleton will arrive on loan from Argentina‘s Museo Paleontológico Egidio Feruglio

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72-foot space rocket coming to Kensington next week

If you’re a fan of spacecrafts, then this will be just your thing in South Kensington

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Billionaire closes main road in South Kensington for gardening work

Ivy owner Richard Caring wins council permission to close part of Onslow Square, a busy ambulance and bus route, for two weeks

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Multidisciplinary artist celebrates Pakistani roots through ‘beautiful’ art

The exhibit is open until September 25 at the V&A in South Kensington, London.

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