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| | | | | Great Smog by The Ovi Team December 4th, 1952; deadly smog created by the smoke soot and sulphur dioxide from the factories, cars and coal fires in local homes begins to hover over London, England, which continues for four days, leading to the deaths of at least 12,000 p | | | Compromising England: Big Ben's 150th Birthday by Dr. Binoy Kampmark Big Ben turned 150 on Saturday to the music of composer Benjamin Till, but confusion still exists as to what the birthday is actually for. Tourists travel to London convinced they are seeing the tower and the fabled clock of ‘Big Ben. | | | Raindancing with the Best of Independent Cinema by Vesa Kuosmanen The sold out screenings of the 16th Raindance Film Festival in London proved that low-to-no budget filmmaking is well, and more entertaining and thrilling than ever. Raindance, like (and unlike) its more famous U.S. equivalent Sundance, is not a f | |
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| | Keep On Running by Tony Butcher I finished my first 10km back in February and felt great that I had beaten my target of 60 minutes. It's not the fastest time the world has ever seen, especially as the winner was closer to 30 minutes but it was the furthest I had ever run in | | | Just Four Years to Go by Clint Wayne As the immensely encapsulating Beijing Olympics draw to a close there is a real sense of anticipation and feelgood factor presently sweeping Great Britain as the 2012 London Games become a step nearer. This current excitement | | | Recording Britain: The 20th Century Landscape by The Ovi Team : The Twentieth Century Landscape | | | My William Blake by Thanos Kalamidas I think it was March 1978 the first time I stepped inside the Tate Gallery in London and for me it was a thrilling experience that I had dreamed of long before ever arriving inside the gallery’s yard. Everything was there, Dali, Matisse, Pic | | | Sofia's Letters from London #9 by Sofia Gkiousou Well it’s been some time now since the smoking ban kicked in and London is coping with the withdrawal symptoms. Tobacco sales seem to be going down but statistics as a science seem to be going the way of th | | |
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