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Tube strike: largest walkout in 13 years causes severe disruption in London
London

Tube strike: largest walkout in 13 years causes severe disruption in London

    Metropolitan police managing crowds of people queuing for buses at Stratford station in London during the tube strike. Londoners have had to deal with severe disruption to their morning commute during the biggest strike on the London Underground for 13 years. Commuters faced lengthy and difficult trips to work on Thursday after the 24-hour industrial action, which began at 6.30pm on Wednesday, forced the entire tube network to close for the first time since 2002. Some rail and bus services were reported to be full before 6am, and most cabs were booked up from Wednesday night. Some commuters walked to work in bright sunshine. One traveller said police had been called to a bus stop after the driver refused to move the bus because it was too full. Writing on Twitter, th...
Tube strike: London braced for worst disruption in a decade after talks break down
London

Tube strike: London braced for worst disruption in a decade after talks break down

    The biggest London Underground strike in more than a decade will start on Wednesday, after last-minute talks between tube bosses and unions ended in acrimony. Almost 20,000 tube workers will walk out from 6.30pm, crippling tube services until Friday morning and causing travel chaos across the capital. Last minute talks at the conciliation service, Acas, aimed at settling the dispute - over pay and the new 'Night Tube' service - broke down late on Tuesday. The boss of London Underground (LU) accused of unions of not acting in a "fair and reasonable" manner over an improved pay offer, while transport chiefs were accused of "foolish games of brinkmanship". Tubes will start running down from 5pm, with all 11 lines shut for all of Thursday. Disruption could carry on until ...
7/7 survivor: We brought London bombings on ourselves and we have not learned from them
London

7/7 survivor: We brought London bombings on ourselves and we have not learned from them

    Professor John Tulloch became a symbol of the terrorist atrocity after being photographed in bloody bandages emerging from Edgeware Road tube station One of the survivors of the 7/7 bombings who became a symbol of the atrocity of the terrorist attack has claimed the UK government brought the attack on itself. Professor John Tulloch, was photographed in bloody bandages emerging from Edgeware Road tube station, on the day 52 people were killed and 700 injured. A decade after he sat feet away from bomber Mohammed Sidique Khan when he detonated his rucksack bomb on a Circle Line train, the academic says he still feels lucky to have survived when people around him lost their lives or limbs. Horror: John exits Edgware Road station following the devestating attack But Prof ...
7/7 Victims Remembered At Memorial Service
London

7/7 Victims Remembered At Memorial Service

    July 7, 2015 marks the tenth anniversary of the London bombings, which killed 52 people and injured more than 700. Three explosions targeted the Underground and a bus service during the morning rush-hour. Memorial services are being held to commemorate those who lost their lives, and a minute’s silence will be observed throughout the country at 11:30 am BST. People embrace outside Edgware Road tube station, London, as Britain remembers the July 7 attacks amid a welter of warnings about the enduring and changing threat from terrorism a decade on. London Mayor Boris Johnson (toward camera) and British Prime Minister David Cameron place wreathes at the July 7 memorial in Hyde Park, London, as Britain remembers the July 7 attacks. London Mayor Boris Johnson (left) and Br...
Calais Chaos: Migrants Enter Channel Tunnel
ENGLISH, Europe

Calais Chaos: Migrants Enter Channel Tunnel

    Traffic along the Channel Tunnel has been disrupted overnight after migrants tried to enter restricted areas in Calais, according to reports. "From 10.30pm (local time), around 150 migrants attempted to enter the platforms," an official for the Pas-de-Calais prefecture told the AFP news agency. The spokesman said traffic was interrupted with long queues of lorries and cars forming, but an AFP journalist said the incident was resumed a few hours later. However, the disruption has had a knock-on effect on traffic. Police in Kent say they have put into action what is known as phase two of Operation Stack - where freight traffic is queued on sections of the M20 - closing parts of the road to other traffic. Last week, lorry drivers faced days of misery as they were held ...
Found The Bethnal Green school girls who ran away to Syria
ENGLISH, London

Found The Bethnal Green school girls who ran away to Syria

    Runaway ISIS school girls 'under close watch in a compound for widows  The three British schoolgirls who ran away from home to join the Islamic State group in Syria were kept under close watch in a compound for widows and would-be jihadi brides while their loyalty to the movement was tested, The Telegraph has learned. Shamima Begum, 15, Kadiza Sultana, 16, and Amira Abase, 15, who ran away from home in February, spent their first months in Isil’s caliphate under lock and key in an apartment in the jihadists’ stronghold city of Raqqa. The schoolgirls, from Bethnal Green, east London, were put in the care of a woman handler known as Um Laith – “Mother of the Lion” – tasked with “purifying their Western minds” by instilling the practices of Isil’s hardline version of sha...
Has Two Jobs John written off £1m that Mayor Lutfur Rahman tried to retrieve
ENGLISH, London

Has Two Jobs John written off £1m that Mayor Lutfur Rahman tried to retrieve

    John Biggs is reported to have written off a £850,000 loan made to the Rich Mix (an organisation which styles itself East London’s independent arts venue). Independent councillors have implemented the call in” process which means that the decision will now be reviewed by a representative mix of councillors before it is implemented. The decision is fraught with controversy, as it centres around: •whether a semi-commercial arts venue will be given up to £850,000 of Council Tax-payers’ money without the usual processes being followed; •whether court proceedings to protect the Council’s right to secure repayment of a loan will be ditched; •the Labour Party’s involvement in what is supposed to be the decision of a public repre-sentative. Background The loan was made to ...
Hundreds of immigrants to be freed from detention centres BEFORE being granted asylum
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Hundreds of immigrants to be freed from detention centres BEFORE being granted asylum

    Immigration campaigners are furious amid fears that hundreds of asylum seekers will be freed because of human rights. Immigration minister James Brokenshire suspended the system over human rights fears The Government has suspended the asylum fast track system over fears it could be slammed by judges, meaning that a group of over 100 immigrants will be immediately freed from detention centres. The "detained fast track" policy was drawn up by Labour over a decade ago to deter bogus migrants from trying to claim asylum in Britain. It is applied in cases where economic migrants who sneak into the UK and attempt to claim asylum after they are caught. Many immigrants in this category will now be put into the main asylum system, where it can take years to resolve cases and ...
10 tourist traps you should avoid in Italy and where to go instead
ENGLISH, Europe

10 tourist traps you should avoid in Italy and where to go instead

    San Gimignano Ask almost anyone and they'll tell you that Italy is on their bucket list: the art, the culture, and the food is world famous for a reason. But Italy is big, and it can be overwhelming for first timers, who inevitably, bowled over by choice, fall into overpriced tourist traps. Here are the places you should avoid, and the often cheaper, always more authentic alternatives you should hit instead.  1. Instead of getting disappointed by the Leaning Tower of Pisa, check out the medieval towers in the town of San Gimignano. If we told you to go see a tilting old tower that wasn't Pisa would you? Probably not, and you should avoid the surprisingly small and devastatingly disappointing Leaning Tower of Pisa too. Want to see old towers? Visit San Gimignano, a mo...
We are no longer poor
Bangladesh, ENGLISH

We are no longer poor

    Prime minister’s son and her ICT Adviser Sajeeb Ahmed Wazed Joy has thanked the Awami League government for its hard work to turn Bangladesh into a lower-middle-income country. Reiterating her mother’s new target, he hoped Bangladesh would become a higher-middle-income economy by the end of the government’s current tenure. In a Facebook post, he wrote, “Bangladesh is no longer a poor country. It is now officially a middle-income country. “Per capita income has more than doubled during the past six years of our government, poverty level almost halved, tremendous development has taken place in all socio-economic sectors.” Attributing the progress to the efforts of the government, he said, “All thanks to the hard work of our Awami League government.” World Bank on Wedne...