SouthWest train from London Victoria to Croydon hit a wheelchair which fell on the track at Battersea Park station. All trains between London Victoria and Clapham Junction on 1st December 2021, at 9:55am. Luckily nobody was injured.
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Jack Dorsey, the co-founder of Twitter, stepped down, as CEO on Monday, replaced by chief technology officer Parag Agrawal as his successor. Dorsey. 45, said the company was “ready to move on from its founder” and in an email to staff he said he had a “bone deep” trust in Agrawal, who joined Twitter 10…
“Theory” into “Practice” makes the world shake on its axis. Does anybody out there give a damn? Does anybody out there actually care? Is this “paranoia” regarded as just a sham? And that I will say what I think. Yes I dare! “Conspiracy theories” are two most welcome words Yes – those who are…
Archaeologists at a funerary structure east of Lima in Peru found a mummy which could be up to 1, 200 years old, pre-Inca period. The underground structure where the mummy was found and offerings which were excavated with it. The mummy’s body was tied up by ropes and the hands were covering the face, which…
Sarah Moss’s The Fell, gripping and funny, in which actor Emma Lowndes gives voice to four characters Kate, a woman quarantining in her Peak District house, wide open space tantalisingly close, her teenage son, Matt, their older neighbour, Alice, balancing loneliness with her need to shield herself, and the mountain rescuer dispatched when disaster…
Mali’s Santa Christmas Card Exhibition 1994 – 2021 in Ealing Now! Where? At the Grapevine Bar, The Questors Theatre, 12 Mattock Lane, Ealing W5 5RQ. When? 22 Nov – 8 Dec 2021 Mon to Sat 7.00 pm to 10.30 pm. Sun evening – closed. How Much? Completely free though you may like to buy a…
London’s Zenith was the era of Georgian town squares, during 1700-1800, an imperial city which finds itself at the centre of world’s trade, empire, finance and manufacture. Andrew Saint, an architectural historian, conveys the excitement, diversity and richness of London at a time when the city was at the height of its power, uniqueness and…
Dubliner Vincent Keaveny (56) has been sworn in as the 693rd Lord Mayor of City of London. Mr Keaveny becomes first Irishman to hold the office in his first public engagement, led the Lord Mayor’s show from the Guildhall to the Royal Courts of Justice on Saturday November 13, where he swore allegiance to the…
4 by Six presents Break in Emergency 2 J/M Gallery, 230 Portobello Road till Sunday with all proceeds going to the homeless. Works pictured include Fear Less and Love More by Peter Tunney. All works done on sections of scrap double decker buses from a scrapyard in Barnsley, South Yorkshire. This exhibition uses recycled London…
Amitav Ghosh finds the origins of our contemporary climate crisis in Western colonialism’s violent exploitation of human life and the natural environment. The Nutmeg’s Curse, traces our contemporary planetary crisis back to the discovery of the New World and the sea route to the Indian Ocean. He argues that the dynamics of climate change today…