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Londonist (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
In the first of three posts, we focus on individual exhibits and novelties from the collection of our Museum of the Month - the Royal Observatory, Greenwich . The Greenwich time ball is perhaps the most viewed object at the observatory. You can see it perched on Flamsteed House without going anywhere near the hilltop complex. Indeed, that's the point. The ball was constructed...
UK Blog (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
British Summer Time (BST) starts on the last Sunday in March and ends on the last Sunday in October, at 1.00 am Greenwich Mean Time (GMT): in spring the clocks go forward, losing an hour - at 1.00 am GMT the UK moves to 2.00 am BST in autumn the clocks go back, giving an extra hour - at [...]
Reflections (Free subscription) | yesterday
Children's Favourites, Worker's Playtime, Housewives Choice, Mrs. Dales Diary, The Archers, Dick Barton, The Goon Show, Beyond Our Ken, Take it from Here, Life with The Lyons, Listen with Mother, Family Favourites.......and lots more! There were three main BBC Radio stations broadcasting in Britain in the 1950s. The most widely listened-to service, the "Light Programme" , brought us...
Tory Troll (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
The third part of my interview with Greenwich MP Nick Raynsford has just gone live over at Greenwich.co.uk . You can read all three instalments by following the links below: The Greenwich Market Hotel “will be built” says Nick Raynsford Nick Raynsford on the “bogus claims” of Olympic protestors and the “cult of personality” at Greenwich...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
... are working intensively to reach a deal for a successor to the treaty that expired at midnight Greenwich Mean Time, or 7 p.m. EST. In Friday's statement, the two sides also expressed their "firm intention to ensure that a new treaty on strategic arms enters into force at the earliest possible date." The U.S.-Russian pledge would appear to mean the two sides will continue to respect...
The Greenwich Phantom (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
... from office filing to ironing to dog-walking - I was sent details of such a service setting up in Greenwich some time ago but I can't for the life of me find them in the cough 248 cough outstanding emails that I haven't dealt with yet. I'm not proud of my backlog - and I promise that I will get round to dealing with the starred mail in my inbox, guys - but for now, if the service...
The Hotline on Call (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
... and well-funded ex-WWE CEO Linda McMahon (R) competing for the nomination. In an interview with Greenwich Times 12/1 Foley "said that he has spoken with more than 100 people over the weekend about running for governor." Foley: "The response is almost unanimously that I should run for governor, but I still have not made a decision." "Tom is looking at the changed...
XO's Middle Eight (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
I admit I am pretty nervous about this album. I LOVED 5:55, but let's not kid ourselves about her new single Heaven Can Wait. It is a BECK song with some backing vocals from Charlotte Gainsourg. Several songs on the new record have the same clomp clompy sound, like Greenwich Mean Time (ugh). Others that initially sound tres bonne: In The End, Vanities (noir-ish strings) , Time...
