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[createstreets @createstreets]

Croydon. Suburb of modernist megastructures? Well, yes. But scratch behind & there’s a rich array of late Victorian& Edwardian architecture capable of redefining the town. These could …

[CLIVE POWER @ClivePower]

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Mcr couple pay £14K to heat pump installer who fitted wrong cylinder and other errors. Company was certified for the work, went bust & compulsory insurance refused to pay.

May explain why UK distant worst in Europe for heat pumps. Gov got to get it right

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River Roding rubbish being cleared at Ilford by Paul Powlesland & others from River Roding Trust over Environment Agency objections.

River Roding is London's third longest river & plagued by weeds & illegal sewage outlets into it in Little Ilford & Ilford https://t.co/uwDm0tjgNy

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Canary Wharf from Greenwich Peninsula - tonight

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'Reformation' - display in Tate Britain

[Modernism in Metroland @mod_in_metro]

We are pleased to announce our latest mini guide, Lubetkin in London. It explores the work in the capital by the legendary modernist architect Berthold Lubetkin, who worked in London between 1933 and 1966. https://t.co/oO2I3pD5NY

[CLIVE POWER @ClivePower]

The only means of communications between the American and North Korean governments is a phone line. Pyongyang doesn't usually answer. They also return unopened letters that the USA put under their door at the UN in New York.

North Korea has about 60 nukes & USA has about 5,000.

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Detail from my favourite painting - Brighton Pierrots (1915) by Walter Sickert - in Tate Britain today.

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'London Stadium back in spotlight after West Ham’s Premier League exit' https://t.co/7VCZr7Keg5

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Subject to detail - excellent! Hope new @NewhamLondon don't help lose this as they did 21.5K-seat Sphere London also in Stratford (site now coach park).

Bad news for GLA's rival London Stadium whose hemorrhaging cash will also rise if West Ham relegated. https://t.co/8pp1OhJe0b

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One of those with a doctorate in Cybernetics making minimum wage in a cafe, or with no qualifications working cash-in-hand in a market?

Reinvent yourself. Become an artist. No skill needed.

But you need a story - capable of withstanding a little prodding - to sell the art.

[CLIVE POWER @ClivePower]

With an ad for a tricycle made in Coventry. The first modern bicycle was invented in the city in 1885 and which had the largest bicycle industry in the world by the 1890s. This also led to its large car industry. https://t.co/BjetiDT6zu

[The British Newspaper Archive @BNArchive]

Published at a time when Britain was producing more tricycles than bicycles, our new title this week The Tricyclist captures the popularity of the tricycling world. Its editor, George Lacy Hillier, was a famed British cyclist. Discover more https://t.co/GmtdqFJrNd #CyclingHistory

[NewhamPoetryGrp @NewhamPoetryGrp]

2006-2026 10 years of building a poetry movement in Newham 🙏🏼🙏🏼

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Fulham FC 2 v Newcastle United 0 at Craven Cottage today in last day of the Premier League. #FFC v #NUFC

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'How England’s vulnerable children became a gold mine for investors' https://t.co/kEV9nq0wKU

'Providers charge the state an average of £384,020 per child per year, a huge rise from a decade ago'.

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'Ilegal children’s homes used as recruiting grounds for criminal gangs.

New report cites police, council and charity workers describing the acute dangers faced by children."

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'Musk, SpaceX and Muscovite fever dreams' https://t.co/NEyCZE8cPy