Caroline Knowles delves into London’s plutocrat’s paradise with more resident billionaires than New York, Hong Kong, or Moscow. Far from trickling down, their wealth is burning up the environment and swallowing up the city. Knowles walks the streets of London from the City to suburban Surrey Via Kensington, Notting Hill, Mayfair, and elsewhere. Her walks…
Justin Bieber has had to postpone three of his Bieber’s Justice World Tour shows which began in February due to facial paralysis, a Ramsay Hunt syndrome, which shingles outbreak affects the facial nerve near someone’s ears. The 28-year-old Canadian-born singer said in a three-minute Instagram video “As you can see this eye is not blinking.…
Cornwall Wildlife Trust is doing the sea search driving project, a partnership between the Marine Conservation Society and other organisations, which collets species and habitat information from all around the UK and sees seagrass for the first time. And their critical importance to human health and wellbeing. Seagrasses are marine flowering plants, located in shallow,…
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…
Juniper network’s innovative AI-driven insight and automation can transform your infrastructure, operations, and services and improve your networking and help your business stay agile, competitive, and secure in the cloud era and changing economy. Juniper Networks a leader in secure Ai-driven networks, and Dragos, a global leader in cybersecurity for Industrial Control Systems and Operational…