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El alcalde de Londres, Sadiq Khan, se ha comprometido a conseguir que el río Támesis, notoriamente contaminado, sea apto para el baño dentro de una década. Es una buena noticia para los londinenses que miran con envidia a otras ciudades europeas como París, donde las autoridades se apresuran a limpiar el Sena lo suficiente para las pruebas olímpicas de natación de este verano. Sadiq Khan anunció al periódico 'The Sunday Times' su "plan lunar" para limpiar el río. "No lo haremos de la noche a la mañana. Nos llevará unos cuantos años, pero lo mejor es que los londinenses y los activistas están d...
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London’s mayor has vowed to make the notoriously polluted River Thames swimmable within a decade. It’s welcome news for Londoners looking enviously across the Channel to Paris - where authorities are racing to get the Seine clean enough for Olympic swimming events this summer. Sadiq Khan announced his “moonshot plan” to clear up the “national embarrassment” to The Sunday Times newspaper. “We won’t do this overnight,” he said. “It will take us a few years to do - but the great thing is there’s an appetite from Londoners and campaigners.” Here’s how London could reverse the fortunes of its belov...
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London’s underground rail system is arguably one of the most iconic in Europe, if not the world - and now there’s a significant change to the well-known map. Transport for London (TfL) have announced they are rejigging - and renaming - the routes that run over rather than underground lines into six distinctive specific routes. All named after parts of the capital city’s heritage, the new designations have prompted mixed reactions from Londonders. What do we know about the changes to the Overground line?TfL announced last year that the aim of the renaming was to give the routes distinct identit...
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TikTok ‘frenzies’ fuelling anti-social behaviour are putting a strain on over-stretched public services, police and teachers’ union leaders are warning. The frenzies – where TikTok drives disproportionate amounts of engagement to potentially disturbing topics – are said to have led to obsessions with the murder of four students in the US state of Idaho that led to innocent people being falsely accused. There has also been the suggestion TikTok fanned the flames of recent riots and looting in France and London. Chief Constable Pippa Mills, the National Police Chiefs’ Council’s communications ch...
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King Charles III has thanked his late mother Queen Elizabeth for her life of service and said he hopes “flights of angels” will sing to his “darling Mama” as she makes her “last great journey”. He paid tribute to the British monarch on Friday (09.09.22) just after the start of a packed thanksgiving ceremony in her memory at St Paul’s Cathedral, London. It started at 6pm, almost 24 hours after it was announced by Buckingham Palace Her Majesty had died “peacefully” aged 96 at her home in Balmoral. The King, 73, pre-recorded a televised speech in the Blue Drawing Room of Buckingham Palace. It was...
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A rousing rendition of ‘God Save the King’ rounded off the packed ‘Service of Prayer and Reflection for Queen Elizabeth’ at St Paul's Cathedral in London. Members of the public who had spent hours on Friday (09.09.22) afternoon queueing for wristbands sat with VIPs, including the new UK Prime Minister Liz Truss and Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, from the start of the ceremony at 6pm. The reworded British National Anthem, written in 1745, rang out for the first time in 70 years as King Charles III ascended to the throne after his late mother’s death on Thursday (08.09.22) aged 96 at her home in Ba...
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Queen Elizabeth made a surprise appearance at the official opening of the Elizabeth Line. The 96-year-old monarch smiled broadly as she joined her youngest son, Prince Edward, at Paddington Station on Tuesday (17.05.22) to mark the completion of the London Crossrail line named in her honour, marking her third public outing in just five days, following two visits to the Royal Windsor Horse Show on Friday (13.05.22) and Sunday (15.05.22). The queen - who has been suffering from mobility issues in recent months - was not scheduled to attend the event but was keen to be there and felt well enough ...
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The number of e-scooter collisions jumped significantly in London during 2021. 258 collisions were recorded in the UK's capital in the first six months of the year, compared with 266 throughout the whole of 2020. The large increase continues a yearly trend, as only 38 incidents were recorded during 2019 and just nine the year before that. The information was revealed in a written question to London mayor Sadiq Khan. The Metropolitan Police also seized more than 3,000 privately owned e-scooters during 2021. Privately-owned e-scooters are forbidden on public land in Britain, but a rental scheme ...
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Prince William has announced details of the first Earthshot Prize awards ceremony. The Duke of Cambridge has revealed the inaugural event will take place at London's Alexandra Palace on 17 October and will celebrate those trying to "solve the world's greatest environmental challenges". The ceremony will celebrate all of the global finalists before handing out the first five winners of the Earthshot Prize, with the recipients receiving £1 million to scale their solutions to the environmental challenges facing the planet. William said: “By hosting the COP26 conference in Glasgow just weeks after...
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Prince William has announced details of the first Earthshot Prize awards ceremony. The Duke of Cambridge has revealed the inaugural event will take place at London's Alexandra Palace on 17 October and will celebrate those trying to "solve the world's greatest environmental challenges". The ceremony will celebrate all of the global finalists before handing out the first five winners of the Earthshot Prize, with the recipients receiving £1 million to scale their solutions to the environmental challenges facing the planet. William said: “By hosting the COP26 conference in Glasgow just weeks after...
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