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Smoke And Fly

Image courtesy of drome under a Creative Commons Attribution licence From stories of air crew heroism to tales of a very different type. 15 members of a South African Airways flight crew were arrested at Heathrow yesterday after customs discovered a whacking £310,000 worth of …

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Book Review: London Lore by Steve Roud

Ravens in the Tower, Gog and Magog, London Stone, the Lord Mayor’s Show, the sound of Bow Bells…all are dispatched within the opening chapter of this 400 page compendium of London folklore. Hold on to your maypole for a breathtaking ride through the centuries, with …

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Confusing T5 Design Causes Immigration Free-for-All

Of all the problems Heathrow’s colicky baby T5 has been having in its first few months, we’ve mostly heard about masses of lost baggage and inconveniently cancelled flights. But now there’s a whole new reason to be alarmed, or at least freshly disappointed, at the …