Sarah Panitzke, 48, from York, went missing in 2013 while on trial for her part in a £1bn mobile phone tax scam. She became the UK’s most wanted woman after fleeing to Spain while on trial for money laundering and has been jailed for eight years after she appeared at Kingston Crown Court in…
In 1990 China was a “Bicycle Kingdom” where over 670 million people owned pushbikes when they were following the lead of Deng Xiaoping, who defined prosperity as a “Flying Pigeon bicycle in every household”. China today has 8-lane motorways as most lower and middle-income megacities around the world have ditched the bike. The world had…
Bronze Lion Heads with mooring rings in their mouth line the Victoria Embankment, on the northern bank of river Thames, was created for Bazalgette’s new embankments in 1868, with a Mystic rhyme “ accessible via Temple ( Circle and District line), When the Lions drink, London will sink. When it’s up to their manes, we’ll…
www.londonfestivalofarchitects.com A CITY FOR EVERYONE. A beginner’s Guide to Urbanism. Talk at the Czech Embassy Notting Hill. A talk featuring Osamu Okamura and Manijeh Verghese chaired by Peter Smisek happened at the Czech Centre London on Monday 6 June – part of the London Festival of Architects Events. How do we relate to something…
Make a difference for this WorldOceanDay and use your voice for our ocean. Urge World leaders to protect at least 30 per cent of our planet’s lands, waters, and ocean by 2030. Celebrate World Ocean Day on June 8. What do we know about our ocean? The covers Ocean covers 70 per cent of…
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Conservative MPs voted in favour of Boris Johnson remaining as PM by 211 votes to 148 and survived the confidence vote brought by his own party, following Sue Gray’s report detailing lockdown rule-breaking in Downing Street. Boris Johnson beat off a substantial rebellion by his own members of parliament and said “ The government can…
Sergey Brin, Google co-founder, build a massive electric airship which his Lighter Than Air (LTA) Research firm incorporated in 2014, and is preparing to launch new research later this year. Brin is hiring hundreds of aeronautical engineers in Silicon Valley and at a location in Akron, Ohio known for its Goodyear blimps, to build airships…
Thousands of travellers are thought to be stuck abroad after flight cancellations over the Jubilee weekend. The disruption is being driven by staff shortages across the aviation industry. Advantage Travel Partnership, a network of travel agents said 30 per cent of calls to its members were from people worried about future bookings. Julia Lo…