Prime Minister Gordon Brown has joined other world leaders in taking up running as part of a new exercise regime.The Prime Minister, who is 58, can be seen slogging it out in the genteel surroundings of St James's Park, Green Park and Hyde Park each morning to the surprise of dog walkers, reports The Telegraph.He has been following the strict regime for a couple of months, according to senior Whitehall...
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One of London's most original Victorian toilets was transformed into a cesspit complete with slurry and live maggots to raise awareness of poor sanitation in the Third World.Development charity WaterAid festooned the lavatory in Hyde Park, central London, with rubbish.A stagnant stream was lovingly installed, while the insalubrious surroundings also boasted a "unique toilet scent".Andrew Mitchell,...
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man has died after being trapped under a bus following a crash in central London in the early hours of the morning.Officers were called to Knightsbridge near Hyde Park at about 0340 GMT where they found the man. Firefighters freed him but he died shortly afterwards.Another male pedestrian was taken to hospital by ambulance crews after suffering serious head injuries.This...
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new Speakers' Corner has been proposed for the east London borough of Waltham Forest in a bid to improve local democracy.The stage in Walthamstow's Stoneydown Park is inspired by the central London Hyde Park spot where Karl Marx, George Orwell and Lenin addressed crowds.It is the idea of teachers from four local schools who are working on the idea with the Speakers' Corner Trust.Two meetings took place...
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Ergonomics shapes the products we use every day, from mobiles to motors. Now, the Design Museum is celebrating this fascinating science. By Caroline RouxThe 02 Cocoon only survived for a year in the competitive mobile phone marketplaceOn 14 June 2007, O2 launched a new phone, the Cocoon, with all the usual no-expense-spared festivities that accompany the introduction of new gadgets however small. Champagne...
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Over 200,000 people across the globe are all set to enter the Guinness Book of Records as they try to break and make strange new records to achieve fame.Turkey plans to break the most concrete blocks in a single stack while Northern Ireland will try and make the largest human mattress dominoes.Texas wants to make a record of the largest number of lassoing simultaneously and Finland is going to make...
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Cricket legend Ian Botham has launched his 25th anniversary hike to aid cancer research along with two brave children fighting leukaemia."If you want to know why I keep doing these walks, look no further than these two," The Mirror quoted Botham, as saying.Bradley Smith, 6, has one year left to finish his three-year chemotherapy course, while Molly Shelley, 7, has been in remission since last year.Botham's...
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Over 200,000 people across the globe are all set to enter the Guinness Book of Records as they try to break and make strange new records to achieve fame.Turkey plans to break the most concrete blocks in a single stack while Northern Ireland will try and make the largest human mattress dominoes.Texas wants to make a record of the largest number of lassoing simultaneously and Finland is going to make...
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Over 200,000 people across the globe are all set to enter the Guinness Book of Records as they try to break and make strange new records to achieve fame.Turkey plans to break the most concrete blocks in a single stack while Northern Ireland will try and make the largest human mattress dominoes.Texas wants to make a record of the largest number of lassoing simultaneously and Finland is going to make...
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Students in Leeds are taking part in a clean-up to rid their streets of mounting rubbish left uncollected by the city's long-running bin strike.Dozens of students in the Hyde Park and Headingley areas have been hit by the dispute which is its tenth week.The event has been organised by Leeds Student Radio, with teams of cleaners due to be out until the afternoon.Talks between the council and unions...
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