A young woman is due to appear in court charged with failing to stop after a road traffic collision, using a vehicle without insurance and driving not in accordance with a licence. A spokesperson for the Metropolitan Police told T-VINE that Yasmin Mustafa, aged 18 (21.12.2001) of Hoppers Road, Pa...
A London businessman received a nice surprise when he went to pay the bill at a hotel bar and found that a stranger had already paid it. On Friday afternoon Nural Ezel went to the Hyatt Regency – The Churchill Hotel in central London to meet a friend visiting from Istanbul. Catching up on each ot...
Turkey has been added to the UK’s quarantine list. The change, announced by the Secretary of State for Transport Grant Shapps earlier today, means Brits who are returning from Turkey after 4am on Saturday 3rd October will be required to self-isolate for 14 days. Three other countries also lose th...
A menacing 60-second message from Ali Melin to his staff at Melin restaurant in Chigwell, Essex, telling them, “you take money from me, I’ll take something from you” has gone viral, prompting a huge backlash. The restaurant owner warned his staff that they were not entitled to keep any tips for t...
The suspected car involved in a hit-and-run accident that seriously injured a postman working in Edmonton on Saturday afternoon has been identified. The driver, thought to be a female, sped off without stopping, leaving postman Necati Mehmet lying in the road. Mr Mehmet’s family were sent CCTV...
The family of a man who was seriously injured after being struck by a white vehicle in Edmonton on Saturday afternoon are offering a reward to help find the driver who sped off without stopping. The incident occurred at around 2:30 pm on the busy Hertford Road by the junction with Cuckoo Hall Lan...
The British government has responded negatively to a petition on the UK Parliament website calling for direct flights to the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus (TRNC). The response, penned by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), said the “UK Government has no plans to authorise...
Demand for a holiday in Turkey has continued to rise as it becomes one of a dozen holiday destinations Britons can travel to without Covid restrictions in either direction. Earlier today, the UK government announced that arrivals from Denmark, Iceland, Slovakia and the Dutch Caribbean island of C...
An artist of Turkish heritage living and working in Hackney needs help from the Turkish community in Hackney, East London, for his new project exploring the power of songs that reconnect us to our roots. Kadir Karababa, or Kad for short, will be recording a series of short films of members of mig...
Welcome to the first in a series of articles T-VINE is publishing in conjunction with the TRNC London Consular team to help people in Britain understand the criteria and processes to obtaining key consular services, such as a new passport or identity card, known as a ‘kimlik’ in Turkish. Some of...
