London News
News stories that pop up from around the capital.
London News 09.17
* Surfing centre planned for East London. BBCNews
* Only 4 in 10 Britons motivated to exercise more to improve chances of a longer life. Metro
* NHS doctors to be banned from wearing white coats, watches, jewellery and ties to try and stop the spread of the MRSA superbug in hospitals. Reuters
Date: September 17th, 2007 |
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London restaurant prices
Interesting article in The Guardian today about London being the world’s most expensive city for dining out in. The figures come from the new Zagat’s restaurant guide which says that a three course meal with one glass of wine in the average London restuarant now costs £39.09 ($79.59). By comparison the same average meal would cost £35.37 in Paris, £35.10 in Tokyo, £19.30 in New York and £15.63 in Los Angeles.
Date: September 12th, 2007 |
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London News 09.10
* New 3 in 1 Oyster card to be launched.(BBCNews)
* All skilled immigrants to Britain from outside the EU to be made to prove they can speak English.(Reuters)
* References to the Queen to be removed from British passports and replaced with inscriptions about the EU Constitution to try and make people feel more pro European Union.(Telegraph)
Date: September 10th, 2007 |
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London News 09.03
* Three day strike by London Underground workers to go ahead this week.(Metro)
* Ten British police forces get Taser stun guns to trial for a year.(ITVNews)
* Elderly drivers may face new test at 70.(Times)
Date: September 3rd, 2007 |
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London News 08.29
* Nelson Mandela sees statue of himself unveiled in Parliament Square.(BBCNews)
* BAA (British Airports Authority) forced to drop false advertising about competitive prices at its airport shops and bars.(EveningStandard)
* Gordon Ramsay knocked off the top spot in London restaurant guide.(TheIndependent)
Date: August 29th, 2007 |
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London News 09.12
* Man pleads guilty to punching Manchester United Manager Sir Alex Ferguson at Euston Station on Monday afternoon. BBCNews
* Led Zeppelin to reform for one-off gig at London’s O2 Arena. Telegraph
* Demographers say Leicester will become the first city in Britain with a minority white population in 12 years time. TheIndependent
Date: September 12th, 2007 |
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European Union throws in the towel over making Britain metric
The European Union looks like its given up on its decades old campaign to get Britain to completely adopt the metric system. The EU seems to have been on a mission to change Britain’s way of calculating things but it looks as though visitors will find a combined weights and measures system for many years to come.
Britain teaches the metric system in schools, the currency went metric in the early 1970s and slowly over the last three decades since the UK’s been in the EU, imperial measurements have been phased out of every day activities such as buying vegetables and meat or filling the car up at the petrol station.
Date: September 11th, 2007 |
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London News 09.05
* Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich trading in his Boeing 767 for a $300million Airbus A380 superjumbo which can seat 555 passengers or 800 ‘backpackers’ all sitting in economy.(Guardian)
* Underground strike called off but delays on the Tube continue.(BBCNews)
* Senior government minister and top judge call for every person in Britain and every visitor to the country to have their DNA taken and stored on police databases.(DailyMail)
Date: September 5th, 2007 |
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Warning messages from Westminster Council
Westminster Council is to start a new service aimed at stopping tourists and naive Londoners from getting ripped off in the seamier parts of Soho. They’re going to send a Bluetooth text to any phone that comes within 100ft of unlicenced hostess bars in the Soho area with the message saying ‘£5 to get in, £500 to get out. Criminals operate some of the hostess bars in Soho.’
Date: August 31st, 2007 |
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London News 08.25
* Porsche driver faces jail time after being clocked doing 172mph down the A420 near Oxford.(DailyMail)
* Ryanair to charge passengers £2 to check-in from next month.(Guardian)
* Playboy store to open on Oxford Street in mid-September.(Reuters)
Date: August 25th, 2007 |
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