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Time frozen at iconic London Hospital

  Tower Hamlets Council marked the next stage of building works to transform one of London’s most famous buildings into a new town hall by capturing a moment in time in its foundations. On Friday 20 September, a time capsule was deposited inside the former Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel to mark the significance of the council’s ambitious project and ...

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Tower Hamlets hosts London in Bloom Awards 2019

London’s top gardeners recognised at annual awards ceremony at the Mile End Arts Pavilion. More than 300 of the best horticulturists from across the London boroughs gathered at the Arts Pavilion in Mile End on Friday 20 September for the annual London in Bloom (LiB) Awards. The awards recognise the individuals and community groups who do most to improve the natural ...

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THE MEMORIES THAT CAN NEVER BE FORGOTTEN

F R Chowdhury:   I belong to the first batch of the Juldia Marine Academy. It is with us that Marine Academy started its journey in 1962. A year later I joined sea as a Deck Cadet with the Pan-Islamic Steamship. I continued my career with the same company until 1971 when I had to leave because of political uncertainty. ...

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Supreme Court: Suspending Parliament was unlawful, judges rule

Boris Johnson’s decision to suspend Parliament was unlawful, the Supreme Court has ruled. Mr Johnson suspended – or prorogued – Parliament for five weeks earlier this month, but the court said it was wrong to stop MPs carrying out duties in the run-up to Brexit on 31 October. Supreme Court president Lady Hale said “the effect on the fundamentals of ...

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UK working on technology to tackle violent online videos

New York, Sep 23 : British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says scientists are working on technology to stop violent attacks from being broadcast live on the internet as part of an international call to curb online extremism. The United Kingdom is among almost 20 countries backing the “Christchurch call,” an appeal to world leaders and tech companies launched after 51 ...

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Facebook to appoint representative in Bangladesh

The government on Monday said Facebook, most popular social media platform of the world, has consented to appoint a representative in Bangladesh and pay tax and VAT as per the local law. The verbal consent of the Facebook came at a high level meeting with Posts and Telecommunications Minister Mustafa Jabbar at BTRC auditorium today, according to a press release ...

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Thomas Cook customers to fly home after firm collapses

The first of 155,000 British tourists are being flown back home after travel agent Thomas Cook collapsed on Monday. The UK’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) is co-ordinating the repatriation, the biggest in peacetime, after the tour operator “ceased trading with immediate effect”. Thomas Cook’s administration puts 22,000 jobs at risk worldwide, including 9,000 in the UK. Boss Peter Fankhauser said ...

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Labour: Jeremy Corbyn faces battle with members over Brexit policy

Jeremy Corbyn faces a battle over Labour’s Brexit policy later as members choose between two competing strategies at the party’s annual conference. They will decide whether Labour should explicitly back Remain in any future referendum, or adopt Mr Corbyn’s stance of staying neutral until a later date. Unison has broken ranks with other unions to back the Remain motion. The ...

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Body implants and holograms are the future of communication, survey says

Letters and Post-it notes will be replaced by body implants and hologram technology as ways people communicate in the future, a new online survey for Barnardo’s reveals. Polling firm YouGov asked 3,262 children and adults across Britain how they used to communicate, how they do now and how they think young people will talk to each other in 30 years’ ...

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