A passenger who was caught on video pulling an emergency lever on a London Tube during a furious row claims she did it because she was being racially abused.

Piers Morgan (pictured) told the singer to 'stick a cork in it' after he claimed there was a 'cover up' over the incident in central London, despite police insisting today that there were no gunshots fired.

The 24-year-old was attacked after speaking to friends in Spanish on a Central Line train from Liverpool Street to Stratford last week, leaving her with an injured scalp and cuts to her face.

The offensive message was written on a whiteboard at Blackhorse Road tube station in North London on Saturday. Baker Michael Hawkes spotted it and shared it on Twitter.

A leading industrialist cheated death after he was allegedly pushed in front of a train by another man. Sir Robert Malpas, 90, was left lying on the tracks after the apparently unprovoked attack.

Shocking footage shows the Transport for London worker (pictured) threatening the other man, who is sat in a van, as they shout at each other on a busy main road in the capital.

Many commuters could travel faster by donkey than if they take the number 15H bus that runs between Tower Hill and Trafalgar Square via Fleet Street in London.

The shocking clip was recorded by a commuter earlier this month, outside a tube station in south London.

Commuters cooked in 97F heat inside crammed Tube carriages tonight on their way home from work. They wiped sweat from their brows and undone their shirts ahead of the sticky, stuffy journey.

Commuters have been suffering in recent weeks as the capital battles through a heatwave that has seen temperatures approach 104F (40C) on the Underground.

The rather morbid cremation advert was spotted on what appeared to be the Circle Line by Spanish comedian Ignacio Lopez, who lives in Wales, whose tweet about it quickly went viral.

Workers on London Underground’s Central Line are to go on strike on the weekend before Christmas in a dispute over industrial relations, the RMT union announced.

The adverts which appeared on the side of London's buses this week state: ‘Facts don’t lie. People do.’ They are accompanied by a photo of Jackson, who died at the age of 50 in 2009.

Commuters and young children on the No 42 bus were left gagging as clouds of diesel fumes poured in from outside through the doors shortly after 8am today in south east London.

Buses in London were strewn with anti-social mess including vomit, urine and blood thousands of times last year. Several bus routes had vehicles soiled on average more than twice per week.

London's North Circular was closed in both directions early this morning, following a fire at a commercial building (pictured). The westbound route has now reopened with traffic remaining slow.

British Transport Police have released shocking CCTV footage of an attack that took place on a member of TFL in Bounds Green station after he challenged a man dodging the fare..

Jemima Kelly tapped in on a London bus in October using Apple Pay on her phone to pay for the £1.50 ticket between zone one and two. Her phone died and she was charged £476.

Network Rail has announced 386 projects across the UK, with the worst-hit areas being London, the south-east of England and Liverpool during the festive period.

Passengers endured disruption between London Paddington and Slough this evening after the victim was struck by a service at Hayes and Harlington station in West London.

In shocking scenes set to air tonight in Channel 5's Fare Dodgers: At War with the Law, the officers Karen and Peter work with British Transport Police in a sting operation at East Ham station.

TfL has implemented the stringent cleaning measures across the Underground and bus network in the Capital in a bid to cope with the increasing threat posed by coronavirus.

The former Love Island star, 26, was seen making her way out of the terminal at the English capital's Heathrow Airport as she sported the blue protective item on Thursday.

The £18 billion Crossrail project, which is already three years behind schedule, has been delayed again to help stop the spread of coronavirus, according to Transport for London.

Transport for London will place 7,000 staff on furlough from Monday to save an estimated £15.8million every four weeks, as a result of a huge reduction in passenger numbers.

The return of Serena Williams to the US Open promises to be barely less dramatic than her departure from it last year. She now finds herself with a first-round tie against Maria Sharapova.

American tennis legend Serena Williams, 37, has all but confirmed she is ready to take on Maria Sharapova at next week's American Open starter, after suffering a back injury.

MIKE DICKSON IN NEW YORK: The umpire at the centre of last year's US Open final storm involving Serena Williams storm has been formally told he will be kept away from her matches.

MIKE DICKSON IN NEW YORK: According to her coach, Serena Williams's meltdown during her defeat in last year's US Open final was 'the best moment in tennis for the last ten years.'

Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian nwas accused of making a thinly-veiled dig at Maria Sharapova after eagle-eyed Twitter users spotted him wearing an anti drug t-shirt in the stands of the US Open.

Alec and Hilaria Baldwin enjoyed each other's company while embracing and kissing court side at the 2019 US Open in New York as they watched Serena Williams take on Maria Sharapova.

The celebrity couple were snapped in the stands at Arthur Ashe Stadium at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens, New York.

An Australian Open wildcard is set to cheer up Maria Sharapova after a shock Brisbane International first-round loss compounded a horror grand slam build-up.

The loss came after Barty had to wait until Thursday to begin her Australian summer, with the men's ATP Cup having a mortgage on centre court earlier in the week.

Maria Sharapova and Eugenie Bouchard saw their matches on Tuesday overshadowed by health concerns caused by 'hazardous' levels of smoke in the air from nearby bushfires.

Novak Djokovic, says the Australian Open in Melbourne may need to be postponed as players continue to struggle to compete due to the smoke-filled air.

I have several powder blushers but they are a bit dry looking on my skin and sometimes show up fine lines. Do you know of one that looks dewy? Or should I try cream blush?

My formerly normal-sized lips seem to be shrinking a bit and there are visible vertical lines on the lips rather than just on my upper lip

Richard Eyre's take on La Traviata celebrates its 25th birthday with performances through until late March, with four different Alfredos seducing five different Violettas.

Historically, the list of great British pianists is a sadly short one.

John Wilson's hobby is creating orchestras. He began at college with a small jazz ensemble, which became the John Wilson Orchestra, specialising in music from Hollywood musicals.

Hats off to Deutsche Grammophon. Not only is it the producer of the finest complete Beethoven set in this, his 250th anniversary year.

Georges Bizet was 17, and a student working on a piano reduction of Charles Gounod's symphonies, when he wrote his own solitary Symphony.

We don't see much of Berlin-based Daniel Hope these days, but an album like this shows us what we are missing.

The leaked email reveals how Brian Fallon, Clinton's spokesman, told Huma Abedin, her right-hand aide, that the Department of Justice had told him about a court date related to the scandal.

Two new national polls that dropped today tell different tales, with Donald Trump nipping at Hillary Clinton's heels in one – and her running away with the race in another.

Donald Trump has slipped further in the polls, a survey showed Monday, as he battles to dismiss a series of sexual assault allegations by claiming that the election is rigged against him.

Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump by an average of 5.5 percent. But an election forecaster is advising voters to 'hold off on trusting poll-driven proclamations of a Clinton victory just yet.'

Assailing Trump, Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook said, 'This is what losers do. And we're not even going to give it any credit by amplifying it. It's not true. The system is not rigged.'

The CBS News poll found that 47 per cent of likely voters support or lean towards Hillary Clinton while 38 per cent support Donald Trump.