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Hyde Park visitors covertly tracked via mobile phone data
Visitors to Hyde Park, one of London’s most famous tourist spots, were covertly tracked via their mobile phone signals in a trial undertaken by the Royal Parks to analyse footfall amid drastic funding cuts. Officials were able to retrospectively locate park-goers for 12 months using anonymised mobile phone data provided by the network operator EE via a third party.
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Couple found guilty of 7/7 anniversary London bomb plot
A would-be suicide bomber and his wife have been found guilty of planning an attack in London to coincide with the 10th anniversary of the 7 July 2005 suicide attacks. Mohammed Rehman, 25, who secretly wed Sana Ahmed Khan, 24, intended to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the 7/7 atrocities with blasts that would have inflicted mass casualties in either Westfield shopping centre, west London, or the London Underground, the Old Bailey was told.
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“London Fog,” a study of the great city’s legendary atmosphere
Christine L. Corton reminds us that England’s capital “has always been susceptible to mist and murk.” By Michael Dirda. (Nov. 16)
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Black and White Photographs Capture Everyday Life in London in the 1930s
Bill Brandt was a British photographer and photojournalist. Although born in Germany, Brandt moved to London in 1933 and began documenting all levels of British society. This kind of documentary was uncommon at that time.
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Forgotten Heritage: Subterranean Cisterns of Victorian England
The word "cistern" conjures a rather humble image: toilet tank. But to residents of Victorian England, the term had another, much more majestic definition.
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The names to watch this London Collections: Men
New year, new man. Here are five menswear designers to put on your radar this season
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The tube at a standstill: why TfL stopped people walking up the escalators
It’s British lore: on escalators, you stand on the right and walk on the left. So why did the London Underground ask grumpy commuters to stand on both sides? And could it help avert a looming congestion crisis? On 4 December last year, the London Underground ingested 4,821,000 passengers and spat them out at their destinations, and in doing so set a new record for a single day. If you paused to contemplate this for a moment, you might think...
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Places You Can No Longer Go: The London Necropolis Railway
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Woman assaulted by PC who lost his job found dead in Holloway cell
A woman whose assault at the hands of police was caught on camera and led to a constable losing his job was found dead last month in her prison cell, it has emerged. Sarah Reed, 32, was on remand at Holloway prison in London awaiting trial for assault. She was arrested after an altercation while detained in a hospital in south London. The family say she was acting in self-defence.
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New Law In London Would Fine Homeless £1,000 For Sleeping Outside Or "Loitering"
The homeless people in Hackney, London are facing expulsion from the street due to a new law will allow the police to give out fines and other legal penalties to homeless people who are found loitering, begging and sleeping in commercial places. This “Public Space Protection Order” which was introduced by the council of Hackney will place a fine of £1000 on homeless activities. The order has been met with numerous criticisms...
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Street Food - Bagels and curryhouses: London's Brick Lane
In the 19th century, London became the biggest city in the world thanks to immigration. Food has played a crucial role in integrating these communities into British society: Migrants may lose their language, their customs, and even their religion, but rarely will they lose their food. One street in the East End - Brick Lane - above all tells this story.
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Deserted London: Photos by Genaro Bardy
A series of photos entitled Desert in London by French photographer Genaro Bardy that portrays the city as a ghost town—without any tourists or commuters in sight.
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Thousands March in Central London to Oppose Nuclear Arms
Thousands have marched through London to oppose the renewal of Britain's Trident nuclear weapons system in what demonstrators describe as the biggest such rally in a generation. Waving placards and banners, the protesters offered their opposition Saturday ahead of a final government decision on whether to replace the current generation of submarines that carry the nuclear warheads.
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‘Slimy rimes’
Donne’s Contagious London. By Alison Bumke.
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Early photojournalism captures life on the streets of Victorian London
Photographer John Thomson and journalist Adolphe Smith created some of the very first socially concerned documentary photography.
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Woman raises thousands for homeless man who helped her after she was stranded in London
A woman who was helped by a homeless man after missing her last train home has raised thousands of pounds for him on a crowdfunding site.
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Sand Sculptor Transforms Construction Site into Anti-Gentrification Cat Art
On Saturday afternoon, sand sculptor Zara Gaze came upon a pile of sand at a construction site in her rapidly gentrifying south London neighborhood of Brockley.
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The octopus that ruled London
For Victorians the octopus inspired terror and apocalyptic visions. By Justin Parkinson.
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Thousands of children moved to illegal Jewish faith schools and evidence destroyed
A London council’s education authority destroyed evidence of children being educated in illegal faith schools at the request of religious institutions, The Independent can reveal. The Department for Education has been aware of the problem since 2010 but does not appear to have taken any steps to act against the destruction of these records.
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The Last Spitalfields Market Cat
Blackie was no pet, she was a working animal who earned her keep killing rats.
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