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• Year of the Whores
  on Feb 3, 2014 in BBC China Chinese Chinese New Year Leicester Square London London Chinatown Trafalgar Square UK Wong Kei Year of the Horse Year of the Whores 恭喜發財
  Friday saw the start of the Chinese new year, with this being the year of the horse. Unfortunately, we have all had problems with predictive text but how much worse was it that the BBC News’ subtitle system logic didn’t cope with the phrase and i...
• Pete Seeger
  on Jan 28, 2014 in Almanac Singers Arlo Guthrie Civil Rights Clearwater Foundation Folk Music Hudson River New York Obit Pacifism Peggy Seeger Pete Seeger Political activism The Weavers Woody Guthrie
  In memory of the great Pete Seeger who has died at the age of 94. A great Pacifist, a great Humanitarian and a Great American.In a career that’s spanned over 70 years Pete Seeger has embodied the idealism that once defined the American spirit. A ti...
• The World's finest Police: An Update
  on Jan 8, 2014 in G20 protests Ian Tomlinson IPCC Jean Charles de Menezes London Manslaughter Mark Duggan Metropolitan Police policing Riot Scotland Yard Sean Rigg Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe UK
  Rioting in Tottenham, London in August 2011 after Mark Duggan was shot nearbyThe inquest on the shooting dead of Mark Duggan in London in August 2011 has concluded that he was lawfully killed by the Police. His family have said they will fight for ju...
• Marina Ginestà - “No pasarán!”
  on Jan 7, 2014 in 1936 Barcelona Dolores Ibárruri Fascism Francisco Franco Hotel Colon Juan Guzmán La Pasionaria Marina Ginestà No pasarán Spain Spanish Civil War
  Anti-fascist fighter Marina Ginestà, age 17, on the roof of Hotel Colon, Barcelona, July 1936. Anti-fascist fighter Marina Ginestà (29 January 1919 – 6 January 2014) who died yesterday aged 94 was a French veteran of the Spanish Ci...
• Best Newspaper Headline of 2013
  on Jan 4, 2014 in 2013 Brighton and Hove Brighton Argus Brighton Council Conservatives Councillors Green Party headlines Lib Dems Media Newpapers The Argus UK
  My nomination for best Newspaper Headline of 2013 is .......The Argus is the paper for Brighton & Hove where the majority on the Council are Green Party and Conservative. Just saying! This is a bitter disappointment to me as I assumed the headlin...
• Fares Up, Wages Flat
  on Jan 3, 2014 in Commuters Consumer affairs Cost of Living Crisis Rail fares Rail Privatisation Rail transport Rip Off Britain RMT Transport Transport policy TUC UK
  The Great British Rail Rip Off continues as 2014 Rail fares in the UK went up yesterday. Strange timing as some season tickets are now so expensive it's enough to make even Santa weep. A Reading to London season ticket, a journey of 43 miles, now cos...
• Sherlock's mysterious Underground
  on Jan 2, 2014 in 221b Baker Street BBC Benedict Cumberbatch Dr. John Watson London London Underground Martin Freeman Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Empty Hearse UK
  Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes and Martin Freeman as Dr. Watson in front of  221B, Baker StreetSherlock Holmes adventures have been reworked for the 21st Century in the in the first episode of  "The Empty Hearse" which aired on New...
• Busking Bono
  on Dec 26, 2013 in Bono Busking Dublin Glen Hansard Grafton Street Ireland Liam Ó Maonlaí Lisa Hanigan Music Once Paul Hewson Simon Community Sinéad O'Connor U2 Xmas Eve 2013
    Bono and Glen Hansard continued their Christmas Eve tradition of singing on the streets of Dublin to raise money to help Dublin's homeless. This video was recorded on Christmas Eve 2013 in Grafton Street in Dublin's City Centre. Dublin’s fas...
• Christmas 2013 at Castle Caldwell
  on Dec 24, 2013 in Aylesbury Aylesbury Vale Buckinghamshire Castle Caldwell Chiltern Escarpment Chiltern Hills Daithaic Elves Macareindeer Stoke Mandeville Wendover Xmas Xmas 2013
  Jo, David and Billy (The Cat) are wish you a Jolly Holly and a Cool Yule and all the best in 2014. Inspired by a certain TV programme we have put together our own Macarena Dance routine – Have a look, we can’t imagine you won’t be impressed! He...
• Bigging up Ronnie Biggs
  on Dec 18, 2013 in Aylesbury Bruce Reynolds Buckinghamshire Cheddington Crime Extradition Great Train Robbery Jack Mills policing Rio de Janeiro UK WCML
  The 1963 robbery which took place near where I live at Cheddington in Buckinghamshire has become known as "The Great Train Robbery"  and was tried at Aylesbury Crown Court where the members of the gang received what were thought of as draconian...

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