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‘Brain rot’ named Oxford Word of the Year 2024After a public vote involving over 37,000 participants, Oxford Languages has officially named ‘brain rot’ as the Oxford Word of the Year for 2024. This decision reflects the evolvingRead More...
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Final tickets for London’s iconic New Year’s Eve fireworks go on sale MondayThe last chance to secure tickets for the Mayor of London’s renowned New Year’s Eve fireworks display arrives on Monday, 2 December, with sales opening at midday.Read More...
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London's pie and mash makers push for protected status to preserve Cockney traditionRick Poole, who grew up in his family’s pie and mash shop in London, is hopeful that a new campaign to secure protected status for the traditional Cockney dish will ensure its survival forRead More...
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Two Roman mosaics face risk of leaving the UKTwo Roman mosaics, valued at a combined total of £560,000, have been placed under a temporary export bar in an effort to give UK museums, galleries, or institutions the opportunity toRead More...
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UK author Samantha Harvey has won the Booker Prize for her ‘amazing’ space station novel ‘Orbital’Samantha Harvey poses with the prize and her book "Orbital" at the Booker Prize Awards 2024, in London.Read More...
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Wales advances with tourism tax proposalThis month, the Welsh Parliament will begin considering a new law that could introduce a tourism tax for overnight visitors in certain areas of Wales. The proposal would grant local councils theRead More...
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Buckingham Palace to reveal more of Its hidden secrets to visitorsBuckingham Palace is set to reveal even more of its iconic spaces to the public during its traditional summer opening, offering an unprecedented experience for visitors.Read More...
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Book reveals King has cut off Prince Andrew’s fundingPrince Andrew’s financial support from King Charles has been terminated, claims a newly updated royal biography. The Duke of York, who has been facing significant financial challengesRead More...
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Renovation costs for Norwich Castle soar to £27.5mThe cost of a major restoration project at Norwich Castle, which aims to revitalize parts of the 900-year-old landmark, has significantly increased as the project nears completion.Read More...
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London's oldest garden centre with 'top-notch plants' ranked among the UK's bestTwo of London’s beloved garden centres have earned spots on Mail Online’s list of the best in the UK, highlighting popular destinations for both plant enthusiasts and casual visitors alike.Read More...
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UCL staff raise alarms over ‘dismantling’ of University Art MuseumUniversity College London (UCL) staff have expressed strong objections to the institution’s plans to repurpose its historic Art Museum, voicing concerns that the proposal disregards theRead More...
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Discover Ufford: Suffolk's charming village with an award-winning pub and scenic walksSuffolk is known for its charming towns and villages, but this week we’re highlighting Ufford, a village that offers more than just picturesque scenery. With an award-winning pub and plenty ofRead More...
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UK’s National Gallery implements liquid ban following activist attacks on artworksThe National Gallery in London has introduced a ban on liquids in response to a series of activist attacks on its artworks, including Vincent van Gogh's iconic Sunflowers.Read More...
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The Georgian House Hotel has provided for some of its rooms a gothic feel so visitors can imagine they are using a night in Hogwarts.
There are two "Wizard Chamber" rooms that accompany a four-publication, "Muggle-size" cot; elixir jugs; cauldrons and other themed extras.
The rooms are accessible as a component of a bundle that incorporates a "Muggle strolling visit" of London, which takes in taping areas and different places that roused J.k. Rowling.
It is additionally conceivable to consolidate a stay with a Harry Potter studio visit. Visitors can take a Harry Potter visit transport from Victoria Station to the Warner Brothers Studio Tour – The Making of Harry Potter on the edge of Watford.
Super-rich oligarchs are taking their inconceivable assets and putting them in the place of refuge of London property - with more than £600million used in the capital in the previous three years.
A mixture of conventional reasons joined with expanded terrorism and the flare-up of Ebola is said to be behind the sensational deluge of African cash to the capital.
While African purchasers represent 1.5 for every of transactions in the 'ultra prime' London market, they make up five for every penny of offers by quality - up from two for every penny. This is by commonly using in the middle of £15million and £25million on each one home.
The late Ebola pestilence and proceeded with terrorism from gatherings, for example, Boko Haram has brought about an increment in purchasers lately.
Beauchamp Estates, which offers some of London's most extravagant homes, today discharged a report on African purchasers in the capital.
The upmarket home office said the purchasers are originating from six nations - Nigeria, Ghana, Congo, Gabon, Cameroon and Senegal.
Nigel Farage has guaranteed that David Cameron will be compelled to pay out an additional £1.7 billion into the EU plan before one month from now's over in spite of the legislature saying the additional interest was not adequate.
The Ukip pioneer's remarks, which he says is an impression of Britain's feebleness in Europe, will expand the weight on David Cameron after Thursday night's exposure that Britain has been requested to pay the cash in light of the fact that Britain's economy is improving contrasted and other EU economies.
A legislature source said the interest is "not worthy". It stayed misty on Friday morning whether the British government would challenge the EU request in the courts,an choice the Dutch government are purportedly investigating.
On Friday 17th October, Department Managers from Sainsbury’s, Haider Husnain and Roswald Cabral took three trolleys full of drinks and snacks to Acacia Pre-School, where they met the children and teachers at the school.
The children and teachers greeted them with smiles and were shocked by the amount of donations delivered to the school. The teachers then explained who their guests were and how Sainsbury’s Nine Elms Temp had donated snacks and drinks for them.
Only one day after the Scottish choice on autonomy, chairman of London Boris Johnson got his shot. Since the decentralization of force had been made a theme of dialog, he affirmed that it was about time for the administration of the United Kingdom to allow more prominent power to the city of London. Particularly in terms of the era and consumption of assessment salary, Johnson believes that the capital of Britain needs a greater say.
Margaret Hodge, Labor's part of parliament for the London body electorate of Barking, made it clear that she concurs with Johnson. In a sentiment piece distributed in the London Evening Standard, she watched that the leader of New York is permitted to use half of the city charge pay, while the Mayor of London can just keep 7%.
Johnson and Hodge have a point. Considering the steady fight to stay aware of opponent worldwide urban communities and the excessive nature of handling neighborhood issues, London is in frantic need of more self-governance.
Take the eventual fate of London's open transport, for instance. As indicated by London First, a not-revenue driven association speaking to different business stakeholders, monetary devolution would tremendously rearrange the procedure of financing base tasks, for example, Crossrail 2. Plans for the acknowledgment of Crossrail 1 another, somewhat underground line that will join Maidenhead and Heathrow in the west to Shenfield in the east through focal London, because of be finished in 2019—took just about 35 years to happen as intended, halfway as a result of the vulnerabilities over the subsidizing.
A huge number of specialists participated in road challenges through focal London today to highlight the requirent for pay to increment.
Open part specialists, including numerous who have been on strike this week, walked under the TUC pennant Britain Needs A Pay Rise to Hyde Park
Instructors, medical attendants, common servants and clinic cleaners were a percentage of the callings occurring in the gigantic walk which is required to complete at 4pm today.
The principle rally was held in London however dissents are additionally being held in Glasgow and Belfast today.
Birthing assistants went on strike without precedent for their history in challenge at the administration's dubious choice not to pay a proposed 1% expansion to all NHS staff.
Healing facility radiographers and jail officers will make strike move in the nearing week over the same dispute.the TUC said individuals are confronting the greatest press on their salaries since Victorian times, including that normal wages have fallen by £50 a week in genuine terms since 2008.
The biggest ever ship to enter the River Thames has arrived.
The 397m (1,300ft) long, 56m (180ft) wide ship can convey up to 15,500 holders and is the second biggest holder send on the planet.
Called Edith Maersk, it docked at 06:00 BST at London Gateway having cruised from the Far East. It is because of situated cruise again later.
It is the greatest boat to stop at the profound water dock, which opened a year ago after a £1.5bn manufacture.
A monstrous surge in migration is driving the requirement for no less than 42,000 new homes a year to be inherent London, a report cautioned yesterday.
A dooming dossier blamed London Mayor Boris Johnson for 'totally distorting' the purpose behind the capital's constantly climbing populace – a pattern which will prompt uncommon lodging advancement.
In any case an anticipated increment of a million nonnatives through the following 15 years must be matched by the same number of Londoners being "determined" out of the city, or the eager target will be destined to disappointment on the grounds that there will even now be excessively few homes, it cautioned.
Somewhere around 1991 and 2011, the UK-conceived populace of London was static at 5.2million while remote conceived inhabitants multiplied to 3million – an aggregate populace of around 8.2million.
It is anticipated to increment to 10million by 2029, overwhelmingly determined by the entry of 1.1million foreigners and births to existing and future outside families, says the report.in 2012, stand out third of births were to folks who were both UK-conceived, it said.
Britain's lodging costs expanded by 11.7% in the year to August 2014, unaltered from the year to July, as the normal property cost in London surpassed the a large portion of a million pound mark.
As indicated by the Office for National Statistics information, yearly house cost increments in England were determined a 19.6% ascent in property costs in London.
This is gigantic contrasted and the increments in the south east (12.3%) and the east of England (11.6%).
On the off chance that London was prohibited from the general count of UK house value midpoints, the hop would be at 7.8% in the 12 months to August 2014.
The normal UK house cost in August 2014 was at £274,000 (€345,052, $437,283).
LONDON
Timothy Long, the curator of the exhibition 'Sherlock Holmes: The Man Who Never Lived and Will Never Die', poses with a deerstalker hat, smoking pipe and a magnifying glass at the Museum of London in London October 16, 2014.
LONDON (Reuters) - How do you make an exhibition about a man who never existed?
The Museum of London show on Sherlock Holmes, which opens on Oct. 17 after two years of preparation, acknowledges the conundrum with its title, "The Man Who Never Lived and Will Never Die". Visitors enter the show through doors masquerading as bookshelves in a physical embodiment of the engaging blend of reality and fiction that characterises British author Arthur Conan Doyle's tales of the world-famous detective. The displays include everything from the specially designed Belstaff coat worn by Benedict Cumberbatch in the recent BBC series to original manuscripts written in Conan Doyle's careful cursive. The author, who aspired to be an eye doctor before turning to literature, can be seen in a 1930 clip of what is believed to be his only filmed interview. In contrast, his creation has hogged the limelight for over a century. The show's curators say Holmes is the most-filmed character of all time, starring in over 200 adaptations. The earliest film on display is a French version from 1912.