Eels

Eel be dead, then.

Thames Eel Population Plummets

Eel be dead, then. The number of eels in the Thames and its tributaries has dropped by 98% in five years, say scientists from the Zoological Society of London. The quantity caught in special test traps (and later released) nosedived from 1500 in 2005 to …

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Art Preview: A Net of Eels @ The Wapping Project

Now here’s something a bit different. An art exhibition entirely devoted to eels. This is a bi-lateral project – Japanese Kyoichi Tsuzuki, an acclaimed photographer, and Londoner Jake Tilson, artist-author-cook, have teamed up to celebrate this most peculiar of fish and its cultural significance in …

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The Saturday Strangeness

Image courtesy of Dan Hershman under the Creative Commons Attribution licence. 99. Fountain of Eels! Whilst trawling through several old, decrepit and dusty books for research, I happened upon Buckland’s Curiosities of Natural History from the late 1800s. In it he mentions a tale that …

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What’s for Lunch? M Manzes

Londonist asks that most pressing of daily concerns: where to go on your lunch break. M Manzes 87 Tower Bridge Road SE1 4TW 020 7407 2985 Nearest Tube: Borough Mon: 11am – 2pm Tue-Thurs: 10.30am – 2pm Fri: 10am – 2.30pm Sat: 10am – 2.45pm …

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Extra, Extra

Al Fayed and his Royal Ghouls conspiracy – Macca, Mills and the millions – enough already!! Science Museum specialists to strike over pay… Unsurprising since London’s streets may as well be paved with gold Junior suffrage in action as Young Mayor of Tower Hamlets elected …