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This coming Sunday morning (15th Dec) will see the UK’s second highest chimney demolished – right next to the Dartford Crossing.
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In genteel Pimlico can be found a statue of the Greek god, Priapus, protector of gardens, fruit plants, livestock… and male genitals.
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This year marks the 600th anniversary of the earliest known reference to a Christmas tree. Maybe.
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1843 was an important year in the history of Christmas, and a new exhibition at the Charles Dickens Museum is bringing them together for the first time.
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After the movie a concise panel will occur. Television is a significant source of entertainment. The library is simplistically beautiful, which can be very calming and might help you focus.
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It’s 40 years since The Clash’s third album ‘London Calling’ was released, and an exhibition has pulled together a host of memorabilia for that iconic album.
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Jules Verne’s character Phileas Fogg traveled by steamer, train, elephant and horse around the world to demonstrate it was possible to do so. It took eighty days.
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On a very small side street near Kings Road is a modern yet older looking Catholic Church with a very long name.
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For the first time ever, three famous paintings of Queen Elizabeth I, the Armada Portraits, are going on display together in the same place, at Queen’s House in Greenwich.
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In the British Museum at the moment is an exhibition about a period of German history that’s both well known, and hardly known at all – the hyperinflation of the world war periods.
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A part of a major rebuilding project, the National Portrait Gallery has announced that it will be closing for three years, from the end of June 2020.
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The Saatchi gallery, founded by the masters of spin has secured the big prize in blockbuster exhibitions with the master of bling paying his last visit to London.
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Last week we released our interim report in providing advice to government on recycling and resource recovery.
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Decorations are starting to go up, pubs are advertising xmas lunches, and someone in the office is wearing a garish jumper, so here’s a selection of 20 gifts that would look exceptionally good in my, I mean, your living room.
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There is a story that does the rounds, that the site currently occupied by Buckingham Palace was once a gay brothel.
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Archeologists carrying out an excavation inside the Tower of London have uncovered the body of two skeletons, of an adult female and a young child.
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If you’ve been reading the major newspapers in recent weeks, you’ll have noticed a steady stream of opinion pieces pondering — and sometimes cheering for — the downfall of the Melbourne Cup.
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The recent award of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to pioneers in the field of Lithium-ion batteries was a great day for all of us seeking to reduce pollution and combat Climate Change through electric vehicle technology.
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October 31 is World Cities Day, promoting better cities and better lives.
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There’s a new gallery at the Science Museum that shows off an awful lot of wood, brass and books.
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The largest ever Bronze Age hoard to be discovered in London, and the third largest of its kind in the UK, has been unearthed in Havering.
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For one week, there’s a chance for Star Wars fans to buy Stormtrooper based goodies, designed by the prop-maker who created the original Stormtrooper for the first Star Wars Movie in 1976.
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Deep under a central London office block can be found a warren of shops — all selling silverware in small rooms behind a bank vault of an entrance.
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It is with great sadness that we have to report the death on October 14 of Richard Hope, at the age of 85, following several years of ill health.
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Shadow Treasurer Jim Chalmers says Prime Minister Scott Morrison is "kidding himself" on the economy as the International Monetary Fund slashes its global growth outlook to the lowest level in a decade.
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