Tim Stokes

BBC online journalist (of sorts) and occasional history obsessive

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The London borough of Lewisham has 17 officers who patrol the streets hunting down people who fly-tip.
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Inside the century-old building standing above 400,000 gold bars https://t.co/ITe1q2bgtE

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'I bunked off school aged 14 to see Bob Marley - and became his photographer' https://t.co/c21UShiUnT

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While rock legends filled Wembley for Live Aid, grassroots reggae artists brought thousands to Shoreditch Park for a charity show of their own
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What is the weirdest thing in the universe? Boffins from Exhibition Road's world famous museums come together for a festival this weekend hoping to answer this eternal question.
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Peace may have been declared 80 years ago but reminders of the war remain across London.
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The bombed London church that was reborn in the USA https://t.co/1V5Wjk3k88

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Andy Vella's career in design has seen him work with various musicians and authors over the years, but it is his work with acclaimed goth rockers The Cure for which he is best known.
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Her dad never spoke about his life in Berlin - now she knows why https://t.co/aaMsKasBte

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A giant cat and a dead bird: London's alternative animal trail https://t.co/82oot096Kk

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"We've already made a start on Christmas 2026"

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'It's another London tradition that will go' https://t.co/GLIdMFnCAR

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Up on the fifth floor of London's County Hall, an enormous space which for decades echoed with the flapping wings of roosting pigeons is bustling with people meeting over cups of coffee and tapping away at laptops.

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Alistair King is the 696th person to be appointed as the lord mayor of the City of London.
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Bernadine Evaristo's award-winning 2013 novel Mr Loverman has been turned into an eight-part BBC drama.
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The man who left Bowie with mismatched eyes https://t.co/Ux0QOVRTS5

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The woman who left Britain to parachute into Nazi-occupied Poland https://t.co/Pl0aisLVDc

[Tim Stokes @timstks]

'Why I'm photographing every London Chinese takeaway' https://t.co/iOsCiZnCn4

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"I can just remember the excitement and the hope" (and the giant butter sculptures):
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Edith Thompson: CCRC told to revisit hanged woman's pardon case https://t.co/LdmrXzAFed