environment

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Plane Tree Very Special

That certain night, the night we met, There was magic abroad in the air. There were angels dining at the Ritz And a nightingale sang in Berk’ley Square Ah, the romance! Vera Lynn immortalised the posh, garden square back in the 1920s but today it’s …

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Rare Seahorses Found in the Thames

Something surprising is happening in our fair river: Conservationists have found seahorses among the muck in the Thames. More exciting, the seahorses are a rare short-snouted breed — Hippocampus hippocampus, for you bio fiends out there — that usually live around the Canary Islands and …

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Extra, Extra

Harrygate escalates: Prince pulled out of Afghanistan, whilst the media whip selves into frenzy over involvement in the news blackout/leak. Winegate averted (for now): Winehouse will not face charges in connection with husband’s alleged attempts to pervert justice. Guess which city is the world’s museum …

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Gas Guzzlers In Marylebone

Despite Londoners being inveigled mere days ago to report any suspicious activity to the police, people in Marylebone are now being advised to, er, do the opposite. The reason? A Home Office-run project is to simulate a dirty bomb attack on the capital. The trials, …

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Switched On London: Better Illuminations

Tonight the area between London Bridge and Tower Bridge is going to look a little different. HMS Belfast will be camouflaged and the old London Bridge post office building on Borough High St will look like a post box. You won’t be tripping out but …

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It’s Quite Easy Being Green, Actually

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Are You Rubbish At Recycling?

Are you an unreconstructed, consumerist, couch potato with no social conscience? Excellent. Read on. Because the Rubbish Game wants you. We went to the Rubbish Game this week and, if only we hadn’t got distracted drinking wine, we might have won it. Through 3 punishing …

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London Wins Sustainable Transport Award

Us and Paris have won an award for “visionary achievements in sustainable transportation and urban livability”. Yes, such an award could only come from the US of A and it is courtesy of their Institute for Transportation and Development Policy that we are sharing such …

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Extra, Extra

Office shag sees uniformed officer sacked even though he kept in touch with his colleagues by phone and radio whilst he enjoyed his internet date Rumblings in the House over transport security and funding for the Olympics. De Menezes inquest may take months The faithful …

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The Rubbish Game: Not Rubbish At All

What stops you recycling? Are you lazy? Don’t know where to start? Does your rubbish overwhelm you? The Rubbish Game wants to know. Then it wants to turn your rubbish around, with the help of the Binman of Love. It could get filthy. The Rubbish …

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Recycle Your Christmas

We don’t just mean bring out the same old decorations next year and put that box of bath salts away to give to your ageing aunty as you’ll be vastly allergic to them. We mean don’t let Christmas excess go to waste. Recycle your poor …