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Robert Milligan, who made his fortune from the slave trade, will no longer watch over West India Quay. In the immortal words of Sam Cooke, “a change is gonna come” – and in London, it looks like itR...
Statues with links to slavery and oppression will be recommended for removal. As the world continues to grapple with the history and legacy of systemic racism, the UK is considering the role that statues and monuments p...
From Monday, you’ll be able to explore Covent Garden again. With shops around the country permitted to reopen from June 15, we’re about to see the grand return of one of London’s most iconic sites. Hav...
Last week, Londoners stood together in protest. London has a long, proud history of protesting injustice, oppression, and inequality, and we’ve been reminded of that once again this week as thousands took to the s...
The country now has no active cases of coronavirus. There’s been so much depressing, tragic news coming out of the coronavirus pandemic that it sometimes obscures the better news, the little rays of hope that we...
Further lockdown measures could be eased earlier than expected, with English pubs possibly reopening this month. Operation ‘save summer’ looks to be a go, with multiple reports suggesting that government min...
The facial coverings will be handed out at five Tube stations to start with. It’s been just twenty-four hours since we learned that face coverings would become compulsory on public transport in England from June 1...
Maybe we’ll hear some more about the pedestrianisation of Norwich city centre. On the back of the glorious ‘This Time with Alan Partridge’ on the BBC last year, Steve Coogan’s famous character is...
The full moon will glow pink this Friday. Lockdown has been blessed with a number of spectacles already, with supermoons, meteor showers and even sights of Jupiter and Mars gracing our skies. And it looks like the galac...
Face masks on public transport are the next step in fighting the spread of coronavirus. Unless you’re a key worker or are unable to work from home, you’ve probably not been using much public transport recent...