Stirling Moss: Rally Driver by Vic Quayle
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1 DAY AGO - He was one of the greatest racing drivers the world has ever seen, and he died earlier last year at the age of ninety. He was so famous in the 1950s and 1960s, that when traffic cops pulled over a ‘boy racer’ for some speeding indiscretion, the admonition would usually...
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Calls for greater protection for TfL staff as deaths mount
7 DAYS AGO - A leading transport workers union has called for greater protection for TfL staff following the Expand
7 DAYS AGO - A leading transport workers union has called for greater protection for TfL staff following the deaths of three TfL employees due to Covid-19 in recent days. The RMT union has written to the Mayor of London and TfL demanding “urgent action” to protect those working on London’s transport network as...
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TfL needs £125 million to keep free travel
07/01/2021 - Transport for London needs up to £125 million to keep providing concessionary fares such as free Expand
07/01/2021 - Transport for London needs up to £125 million to keep providing concessionary fares such as free travel for under-18s and over-60s, according to London Mayor Sadiq Khan. Under the terms of an emergency funding deal for TfL agreed in October, the Government will no longer cover the cost of 60+...
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A quarter of Londoners don’t want coronavirus vaccine
04/01/2021 - A quarter of Londoners don’t want a coronavirus vaccine or are unlikely to get one, according to a Expand
04/01/2021 - A quarter of Londoners don’t want a coronavirus vaccine or are unlikely to get one, according to a new survey. Almost half of Londoners who might choose to not get a coronavirus vaccine either do not trust Government advice or drug companies, the Assembly found. The online poll of more...
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December/January 2020
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Broken Trusts: Big Tech’s fight against regulation
27/12/2020 - In a political landscape that could only be further polarised by the addition of penguins and an Expand
27/12/2020 - In a political landscape that could only be further polarised by the addition of penguins and an iceberg, it’s not a controversial statement to say that there are very few genuinely bi-partisan issues. One of the few that does reach across the aisle is that tech giants are becoming a...
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Memorial for London’s COVID victims announced
21/12/2020 - Londoners who lost their lives in the Covid-19 pandemic will be commemorated with a new garden of Expand
21/12/2020 - Londoners who lost their lives in the Covid-19 pandemic will be commemorated with a new garden of blossoming trees in the east of the city, the Mayor has announced. The memorial garden, near the 2012 Olympic stadium in Newham, will remember the thousands who have died and the capital’s shared...
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Success in Crisis
16/12/2020 - Why a recession is great for start-ups What do AirBnB, Uber and Groupon have in common? They were Expand
16/12/2020 - Why a recession is great for start-ups What do AirBnB, Uber and Groupon have in common? They were all founded during the 2008 banking crisis. In fact, it was Andrew Wolstenholme who coined the phrase “Never Waste a Good Crisis” in his visionary report on the future of the construction...
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December – January Sports Fixtures
16/12/2020 - Proofed by Phil Sports fixtures London Home Football December 16 Arsenal v Southampton, 18:00, Expand
16/12/2020 - Proofed by Phil Sports fixtures London Home Football December 16 Arsenal v Southampton, 18:00, Fulham 16 v Brighton & Hove Albion, 20:00 December 20 Tottenham v Leicester City, 14:15 December 21 Chelsea v West Ham, 20:00 December 22 Arsenal v Man City, 20:00 December 26 Arsenal v Chelsea, 17:30, Arsenal...
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London council tax hike to plug Khan’s COVID budget
3 DAYS AGO - Council tax will rise 9.5% in April 2021 as Sadiq Khan tries to make up the budget shortfall left Expand
3 DAYS AGO - Council tax will rise 9.5% in April 2021 as Sadiq Khan tries to make up the budget shortfall left by COVID-19. Khan announced the increased tax will be used to fund the police, free transport for pensioners and schoolchildren, as well as provide support to the London Fire Brigade to...
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We Remember….
11/01/2021 - A personal list of notable people that we have lost in the last decade. 2011 It is always Expand
11/01/2021 - A personal list of notable people that we have lost in the last decade. 2011 It is always surprising at the end of each year, usually published in a colour supplement, to find how many of the notable people who have died in the previous twelve months one had forgotten...
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Met Police release details of winter crackdown
07/01/2021 - Metropolitan Police officers arrested more than 1,800 people over a five-week period as part of a Expand
07/01/2021 - Metropolitan Police officers arrested more than 1,800 people over a five-week period as part of a crackdown on violence in London. Operation Winter Nights took place from November 30 to January 3 and saw officers from across the Met working with communities to prevent robberies and violent crime. The operation...
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Armenia and Azerbaijan: History written in blood
04/01/2021 - As September 2020 shuddered to a close, the news cycle slalomed between Donald Trump’s Expand
04/01/2021 - As September 2020 shuddered to a close, the news cycle slalomed between Donald Trump’s pre-election belligerence and the ever-present spectre of COVID in a frenzy. As the global press corps breathlessly reported on every bit of mangled syntax the 45th president of the USA splattered across the political discourse, you’d...
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The Cartoon Museum and British Cartoonists’ Association announces winners of Young Cartoonist of the Year 2020.
30/12/2020 - We are delighted to announce the winners of the 25th Young Cartoonist of the Year competition. Expand
30/12/2020 - We are delighted to announce the winners of the 25th Young Cartoonist of the Year competition. Over 150 entries were received from all over the UK, with winners decided by a panel of judges comprised of luminaries of British newspaper and comic cartooning. The winners are: Under 30s – Fergus...
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Aston Martin & Maserati enter supercar game
23/12/2020 - By Fahad Redha Of all the new cars coming in the next couple of years, two of the most exciting Expand
23/12/2020 - By Fahad Redha Of all the new cars coming in the next couple of years, two of the most exciting have to be the Aston Martin’s new Vanquish and the Maserati MC20. Both of these cars are set to take on the Lamborghini Huracan (or its successor by the time...
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Christmas compared: how Brits feel about this year’s festive season
21/12/2020 - As we approach the festive season – a time when connection, togetherness and quality time are at Expand
21/12/2020 - As we approach the festive season – a time when connection, togetherness and quality time are at the forefront – there’s no denying it’s currently underscored by unprecedented uncertainty, worry and isolation. A Christmas ago, no one could have predicted the despair looming over this year’s festive period. With the...
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Making your Future Work
16/12/2020 - Work and University – Do I need to do both? Students are hoping to be home at Christmas. Many Expand
16/12/2020 - Work and University – Do I need to do both? Students are hoping to be home at Christmas. Many will be disappointed by positive Covid tests. Some will fear they won’t be able to return if Lockdown 2.0 becomes Lockdown 2.1. Summer vacation, 2021, seems a long way to go...
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All I need is the air I breath
14/12/2020 - It was Tuesday October 27th and I had been taken into the Ben Muir Intensive Care Unit (ICU) for Expand
14/12/2020 - It was Tuesday October 27th and I had been taken into the Ben Muir Intensive Care Unit (ICU) for Covid 19, at St George’s Hospital, Tooting. Having taken every possible precaution against exposure to the pandemic, we received a call on the 17th October stating that one of the parties...
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5 DAYS AGO - Some things are just really hard to love, even though you’re supposed to. Most turn up at Expand
5 DAYS AGO - Some things are just really hard to love, even though you’re supposed to. Most turn up at Christmas. Racist relatives, scented soaps, the Queen’s speech, Brussels sprouts. And then, especially in January, the hardest thing to love is your reflection. I f we were happy narcissists, in love with our...
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Statement from Royal Parks
11/01/2021 - During this new lockdown, the parks will continue to remain open as they have done throughout the Expand
11/01/2021 - During this new lockdown, the parks will continue to remain open as they have done throughout the pandemic, and the opening and closing times remain as advertised on our website. The parks provide vital green spaces where local visitors can get some fresh air, enjoy the natural environment and do...
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Time to be Optimistic
07/01/2021 - For reasons which probably stretch back to the way the Romans ran their military and their Expand
07/01/2021 - For reasons which probably stretch back to the way the Romans ran their military and their civilian administration, the numbers 10 and 100 have had a special significance in our Western lives for the past two thousand years or so. And at our esteemed, loved and highly rated local monthly...
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Best films of the past decade
31/12/2020 - Every decade has its gems but some of the cinema produced in the ten years KCW London has been Expand
31/12/2020 - Every decade has its gems but some of the cinema produced in the ten years KCW London has been reviewing truly makes the head and soul ring. As the Christmas break is upon us, we’ve collected some of our favourites below for you to enjoy and look back on. To...
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The plug soon to be cheaper than the pump
27/12/2020 - The government has announced that its ban on the sale of petrol and diesel cars will be brought Expand
27/12/2020 - The government has announced that its ban on the sale of petrol and diesel cars will be brought forward to 2030, just ten years away. The first thing to get out of the way is that this covers only the sale of brand-new cars, so if you’re shopping for a...
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Arctic: Culture and Climate
21/12/2020 - Nearly 400,000 Indigenous Peoples live within the shrinking Circumpolar region, divided between Expand
21/12/2020 - Nearly 400,000 Indigenous Peoples live within the shrinking Circumpolar region, divided between eight nations, including the United States, Canada, Russia, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland and Greenland (which is a Realm of Denmark). They comprise forty different ethnic groups in the Circumpolar North, including Inuit, Aleut, Alutit, Sakha and Sámi, and...
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Theories of Conspiracy
18/12/2020 - In the world we inhabit, what used to be called ‘myths’, once long in the growing, have morphed Expand
18/12/2020 - In the world we inhabit, what used to be called ‘myths’, once long in the growing, have morphed into swiftly manufactured ‘conspiracy theories’, and in the same way that religious myths can engender unquestioning belief in non-facts, so these invented conspiracies can influence followers of a political idea. This phenomenon...
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Extreme E brings battery power to off-road racing
16/12/2020 - By Fahad Redha From the World Rally Championship (WRC) to the Paris-Dakar, off road racing is Expand
16/12/2020 - By Fahad Redha From the World Rally Championship (WRC) to the Paris-Dakar, off road racing is among the most exciting of all. And now Extreme E brings a green twist to the sport. The race will see a range of all-electric cars racing across five remote locations, helping to raise...
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