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By the mid-Seventies, the first pensioners had got their Freedom Passes (initially only for buses). They offered significant savings: by 1980, a two-and-a-half-mile journey on a bus run by the London ...
A recent YouGov poll found that the word that Americans most associate with the middle ages is “violent”. Medieval towns may ...
One of London's eight Royal Parks, St. James's Park is nearly 57 acres. It's surrounded by three palaces: its namesake St.
With roots as far back as 1733, from east to west, the original town of Westminster went from Manchester Road to Court Street ...
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Discover how Diego Galdino, a Brazilian vigilante, became a social media sensation by filming and disrupting pickpockets in London, fighting theft and winning millions of views ...
Broadcaster Selina Scott has said she blames the mayor of London for her mugging by a gang in London’s West End.
On a recent weekday, Diego Galdino was on the hunt for pickpockets in central London, patrolling tourist hotspots for familiar suspects and telltale signs of those about to commit thefts.
I hunt phone thieves professionally – I was still targeted on Oxford Street Former detective turned private investigator warns some London areas have become ‘lawless’ ...
From streets to cells: New book explores Black Country crime in the 1800s Crime in the Victorian Black Country - a new title by Pen & Sword Books.