To get the latest news from the capital visit Metro.co.uk's London news hub. But it’s a less than perfect solution for Tom ...

Habicht said he focused on kids in London’s impoverished East End (“Now high rises are there and nothing probably remains of the slums in London”) before venturing out into the rest of the city.

The true identity of Jack the Ripper, whose grisly murders terrorized east London in 1888, has been a mystery ever since.

The true identity of Jack the Ripper, whose grisly murders terrorized the murky slums of Whitechapel in east London in 1888, has been a mystery ever since. He is believed to have killed at least ...

Again teamed up with director J. Lee Thompson, his No Trees in the Street plays out a seamy slice of life in a London slum 20 years ago. Film is played on a violently strident note. Willis hammers ...

Waterloo Road Played against the drab, bomb-shattered background of a London slum, story is the familiar triangle theme with use of the flashback technique not adding to its originality. But it's ...

London in the 1880s, you see, was booming, but it was also bursting with people far more desperate than Howard. The slums where the Ripper trolled for victims were beyond appalling. "Every room in ...

Edited by Nicolas Bentley—British Book Centre ($2.25). Out of the murk of the London slums, as he tells it himself, arose a “bloody bookworm” named Fred Bason. At 15, Fred already had his ...

Chaplin’s life was full of contrasts, from his poverty-stricken childhood in the London slums, right through to his millionaire status as one of the first great celebrities of Hollywood. The treasured ...