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Solo female travellers on visiting London - safety, cost and what to do

“If I had listened to others who said I should wait until I had a group of people to travel with, wait until I was married, or wait until the world was a safer place, I would never have left my home town." While the onus shouldn’t be on women to change their behaviour to ensure their safety - but rather on society - we find ourselves taking precautions when walking alone in London. "Text me when you get home!”, nestling keys into gripped fists and avoiding badly lit areas have become autopilot
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Mudlarking and the treasures found on the shores of the Thames

'Mudlarking' is an activity where enthusiasts search riverbeds for historical treasures - and with thousands licensed in London you are likely to have seen them down by the Thames. A spokesperson for the museum said the “tiny, intricately carved” bone rosary bead shows the face of a young woman on one side, possibly representing the Virgin Mary, and a skull on the other. Caroline said in an Instagram post: “It really is highly unlikely I’ll ever find anything else this significant, but like al

Tides of change

Nicola White is an artist and Thames mudlark — someone who scavenges along the river mud looking for valuable or interesting objects. She runs a documenting her findings and sharing her 'tideline art' made of recycled plastic, glass and metal to 162,000 subscribers. But Nicola says the mudlark community are being confronted with a 'blanket ban' imposed by the Port of London Authority (PLA) on the sale of art containing items collected from the Thames and its foreshores. Mudlarking permits, is
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Meet the Elizabeth line MBE worker at Paddington station who saved 29 lives

Paddington station Elizabeth line worker Rizwan Javed has been appointed an MBE and is launching a mental health podcast. He told LondonWorld: “I want to talk about my story to encourage people to speak about their own mental health so that anyone going through a similar situation can relate to it and know that it’s okay not to be okay.” “Untangled represents the determination to solve these problems,” he said. “Coming from an Asian background, it’s not so easy to speak about mental health iss
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Trains services from London to Edinburgh could take just four hours

Currently only one train service does the London to Edinburgh journey in four hours. Train journeys between London and Edinburgh could be cut to just four hours when timetables change in December 2024, London North Eastern Railway (LNER) has said. Currently, only the 5.40am ‘Flying Scotsman’ service makes the 331-mile journey in this time, calling only at Newcastle between the English and Scottish capitals. The train operator said it wants to attract 60% of people travelling between London an
South West Londoner •

German ambassador hopes to further language promotion as A-Level entries plummet

The German ambassador to the UK has expressed a keen interest to “cast the net even wider” in strengthening German language learning after A-Level entries in the subject have almost halved in the past decade. Miguel Berger raised concerns to first minister of Scotland Humza Yousaf in November that the number of Scottish pupils studying German is “dramatically low” and in the same month hosted a forum entitled “making the case for German” at the German Embassy in London. Berger said he would li
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Jewish Museum London awarded £231,000 National Lottery grant to continue educational work

The Jewish Museum London has moved out of it Camden base, but it has ambitious plans for the future. The Jewish Museum London has been awarded almost a quarter of a million pounds to continue its outreach and educational work as it looks for a new permanent home. A £231,000 grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund will support a new model for the museum to run its Jewish Museum London On The Move project to London schools and the wider community while it relocates. The "museum without wa
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'The scenes are desperate': London aid worker returns from Gaza border

During the visit, Kalam heard of the death of his colleague Eman Abu Saeid, who worked for the Tamer Institute for Community Education, a non-governmental organisation and partner of Muslim Aid UK, based in Palestine. She was killed with 22 members of her family, including husband Iyad and two children Judy and Ziad. Saeid had provided support to children and families across the Gaza Strip and was planning a project to take orphans and children to the beach to teach them about the sea and make
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London’s National Theatre appoints first female artistic director

Indhu Rubasingham, who has run the Kiln theatre in north London for the past decade, will replace current director Rufus Norris in 2025. The National Theatre has appointed its first female artistic director in the theatre’s 60-year history. Indhu Rubasingham, who has run the Kiln theatre in north London for the past decade, will replace current director Rufus Norris in 2025. She will become both the first woman and person of colour to take up the post since the theatre was founded by Sir Laure
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WATCH: Brazilian jiu-jitsu empowers women in Twickenham

Women at a martial arts centre in south west London say they are finding empowerment through Brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ), a self-defence martial art and combat sport. BJJ is focused on grappling with an opponent on the ground, and women training at the Bu’sen studio in Twickenham say it has played a vital role in both their physical and mental strength. Zinmar Win, a BJJ blue belt, was born in Myanmar and said she originally turned to the sport for mental clarity during the country’s military co
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Fashion college joins 'new culture and education powerhouse' in east London

V&A East will host The Music Is Black: A British Story in 2025. Sadiq Khan visited East Bank for the launch of the new London College of Fashion and the announcement of the first major V&A East exhibition at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park today (November 1). Sadiq Khan told LondonWorld: "Five years ago we embarked on our vision for an East Bank as one of the legacies for the Olympics, and what this was about is having some of the world's finest institutions here in the East End.” The new London
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Putney pub worker completes 127-kilometre charity cycle from Cheltenham to Twickenham

A Putney pub worker has completed a 127-kilometre cycle ride from Cheltenham to Twickenham in aid of a children’s charity. Phil Atkinson, 32, who programmes the music diary at The Half Moon pub on Lower Richmond Road in Putney, completed the journey on Tuesday 17 October. He has since raised more than £300 for Wooden Spoon, a charity which uses rugby initiatives to support disabled and disadvantaged young people. The pub has hosted live music acts for 60 years, including The Rolling Stones, T
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Campaigners demand Lloyd's rules out insuring fossil fuel projects

Christian Climate Action was seen displaying a banner reading “your greed is killing our humanity” at the London sit-in. The demonstrations, which began at Standard Bank, were organised to call on Lloyd's to refuse insuring the West Cumbria coal mine in England and the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP). Today’s protesters were doing so in solidarity with Fossil Free London’s “Oily Money Out” mass action, at which Greta Thunberg was arrested yesterday, and Extinction Rebellion Gauteng in
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Abseilers descend from Twickenham stadium in aid of homelessness charity

A group of 100 abseilers descended from Twickenham stadium last week in aid of a charity helping homeless people to rebuild their lives. The team made the 100ft descent on Thursday 12 October to raise money for Change Please, a coffee enterprise that donates 100% of its profits to supporting the homeless through a ‘jobs first’ approach, providing barista training, living wage employment, secure housing and a bank account. The challenge was part of the charity’s ‘Ten Days for Change’ fundraiser
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‘Is he right, is he wrong?’ South Londoners split on ULEZ - one month in

The ULEZ was extended beyond the North and South Circular roads by Sadiq Khan on August 29, a move the mayor says is essential to clean up London’s toxic air. They say that, according to official data, more than 90% of cars seen driven in outer London on an average day were already compliant ahead of the zone’s extension. Critics have pushed back on the move in the midst of a cost-of-living crisis, with some querying the extent to which it will clean up the air in London’s outer boroughs. Raj
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Oxford venues react to £1.57 billion rescue package for the arts – The Oxford Student

The UK government will provide a £1.57 billion rescue package to help cultural, arts and heritage institutions through the detrimental financial impact of the coronavirus, Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak announced in a tweet on Sunday evening. The news of the “world-leading” lifeline comes as a relief for Britain’s struggling arts sector and marks the largest ever one-off investment in UK culture. Britain’s museums, galleries, theatres, independent cinemas, heritage sites and music venue
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Campaigners call for permanent closure of Peckham hair shop as protests continue

Campaigners are demanding that Southwark Council permanently close a hair shop on Rye Lane in Peckham after an altercation between the shop owner and a customer. A viral video of the incident at Peckham Hair & Cosmetics last Monday between owner Sohail Sindho, 45, and a 31-year-old black woman appears to show Sindho grabbing the woman by the neck. She then appears to hit him with a shopping basket. In the video, the woman is seen trying to get away from the shop owner and can be heard saying:
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Just Stop Oil protestors stage banner drop at Torpids

Student supporters of Just Stop Oil staged a banner drop on the final day of the Torpids boat race to draw attention to the escalating global energy crisis and climate emergency. At approximately 1pm on Saturday 25th February, a large orange banner with the Just Stop Oil logo was hung from a bridge next to the racecourse. The student protestors are demanding that the government commit to ending all new oil and gas projects in the UK, and are also keen for the University and its members to join
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“Strengths, successes and solidarity”: Oxford International Women’s Festival announces 2023 programme

The Oxford International Women’s Festival is set to return for another year of celebrating and uplifting women’s voices from all over the world. It will be held from 25th February to 12th March, encapsulating International Women’s Day on 8th March, and will offer a wide range of events around the city to celebrate women’s strengths, successes and solidarity. Since the annual celebration began in 1989, the festival has covered a range of topics from the arts to the sciences, as well as creative
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