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Demos from different groups of Muslims and the EDL at the American Embassy.

An open-air pavilion dedicated to the memory of Bomber Command has been criticised by an environmental group. The memorial, set for Green Park, would necessitate the felling of nine trees, say Trees for Cities, who want the structure shifted somewhere else. No one wants to …

Head down to the Tube for a mural about the Cross. The deliciously sculpted Eleanor’s Cross outside Charing Cross station today sees the light of day after almost a year’s renovation and five years in scaffolding. The Cross, actually a steeple-like structure, was erected in …

Five years ago today, 52 people lost their lives during London’s worst terrorist incident. At midday, a ceremony and minute’s silence will be held at the Hyde Park memorial (right). A separate service will take place at Chatham House in St James Square followed by …

A service was held at Bethnal Green Tube Station yesterday to mark the 67th anniversary of the civilian disaster that saw 173 people die as folk stampeded underground, following an air raid siren. The campaign to put a permanent memorial on the site, where currently …

Four and a half years after Jean Charles de Menezes was shot and killed by armed police, a permanent memorial will be placed for him at Stockwell tube station where he died. The confirmation of permission for the memorial to be erected came yesterday, which …

There’s a new memorial on South Bank, unveiled yesterday – but who is it? What’s it a memorial for? Who is the determined-looking woman facing the Thames so boldly? It’s Violette Szabo. Yeah, who? You may not have heard of her before, but that’s because …

Ellen Donovan died, her plaque tells us, because she ‘rushed into a burning house to save a neighbour’s children and perished in the flames’. She is just one of the everyday heroes commemorated in the Watts Memorial, which lies in Postman’s Park north of St …

Portrait in the NPG As another dead white military man moves into Traf Square it’s satisfying that a black female nurse is the subject of a memorial appeal and competition. Mary Seacole was voted The Greatest Black Briton in a contemporary poll. She had the …