Members phkrause Posted January 23 Author Members Posted January 23 Murdoch’s UK tabloids apologize to Prince Harry and admit intruding on the late Princess Diana LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry claimed a “monumental” victory Wednesday as Rupert Murdoch’s U.K. tabloids made an unprecedented apology for intruding in his life for years, and agreed to pay substantial damages to settle his privacy invasion lawsuit. https://apnews.com/article/prince-harry-hacking-lawsuit-rupert-murdoch-british-tabloid-88c61a08225269014224283c37225bf8? Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60
Members phkrause Posted February 5 Author Members Posted February 5 A historic market has been in the same area of London for 1,000 years. Its moving date has come LONDON (AP) — Norman Gregory is an institution within an institution. He’s been working at the historic Smithfield wholesale meat market in central London since 1961, witnessing first hand the rapid transformation of the capital over the decades. https://apnews.com/article/smithfield-market-meat-closure-london-418af84d3b9b45d7800fcc4a757b2867? Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60
Members phkrause Posted March 9 Author Members Posted March 9 3 Bulgarians convicted of spying for Russia across Europe from base in UK LONDON (AP) — Three Bulgarian nationals based in Britain were convicted Friday by a London jury of spying for Russia on what police said was “an industrial scale.” https://apnews.com/article/bulgaria-spy-russia-uk-britain-70ecdfe510f63e2d1ab2b3d5f3272e79? Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60
Members phkrause Posted March 9 Author Members Posted March 9 A library for Eavan, forever Though it was founded by a woman — Queen Elizabeth I, in fact! — Dublin’s Trinity College is entirely made up of buildings named after men. But this month, after more than 400 years, one of Trinity’s main libraries will be renamed for Eavan Boland, an Irish feminist poet and the first female namesake of a building on Trinity’s campus. The library was formerly named for an 18th-century philosopher who profited from the international slave trade. A Trinity graduate herself, Boland wrote about women in ordinary domestic life, a subject often undervalued in 20th-century poetry, and advocated throughout her life and work for women’s rights. But unlike other high-profile writers who attended the college, she hadn’t received recognition on a building facade like Oscar Wilde and Samuel Beckett. Boland was the perfect choice to replace the name of a supporter of slavery, said assistant professor Philomena Mullen, who teaches Black Studies at Trinity: “(She) was concerned with who gets written into history, and who is left out.” Though she's not alive to receive the honor, Boland’s name will join Beckett’s and Wilde’s as an iconic Irish literary voice who wrote her own way in. Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60
Members phkrause Posted March 11 Author Members Posted March 11 UK police arrest captain of cargo ship on suspicion of manslaughter over North Sea collision LONDON (AP) — British police on Tuesday arrested the captain of a cargo ship on suspicion of manslaughter as they searched for answers about why it hit a tanker transporting jet fuel for the U.S. military off eastern England, setting both vessels ablaze. One sailor was presumed dead in the collision, which sparked fears of significant environmental damage. https://apnews.com/article/ship-collision-north-sea-oil-spill-environment-47b208024d166aece39b66e216c05229? Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60
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