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No record of authorization for the March 2020 delivery exists, and nearly a year later, the city remains coy about who approved it.
The material was dumped in huge mounds and alongside roads not far from the park entrance in what seemed a haphazard fashion to some. The activists claimed that the material contained residue of petrochemicals, but city officials deny it s contaminated.
City leaders consider the case closed. The Parks and Recreation Department said through a spokesperson that the delivery from Maracay had been long-planned, that the material was clean, and that by now it has all been dispersed throughout the park and used for building erosion-control structures.
BYGONES: Strike as 400 Birch Hill homes left without water A STRIKE by GMWU members in 1983 was beginning to cause water supply issues in the Bracknell area, as it continued into its second week. Over 400 homes in the Birch Hill area were without water, leaving residents queuing at road side standpipes to get water, and three local schools had been forced to close. Previously, 700 houses in Great Hollands were cut off when an 18-inch water main burst, the water authority then took the view that: ‘the size of the leak had increased the risk to public health to an unacceptable level’.
Body of man pulled from Hampstead Heath ponds Barney Davis
The body of a man has been pulled from a fishing pond in Hampstead Heath.
Police were called to Lake 2, opposite the mixed bathing area, after receiving reports of a body floating in the water.
The victim, aged in his 20s, was pulled out by emergency services but he was declared dead at the scene.
A forensic tent has been erected next to the beauty spot which is popular with dogs and anglers.
A cordon was established on the path running between No 2 and No 1 ponds towards South Hill Park Gardens.
âEmpirical evidenceâ: Empireland â How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain
Sathnam Sangheraâs timely new book invites Britain to take a good, long look at itself, writes Harry Taylor
04 February, 2021 â By Harry Taylor
Sathnam Sanghera
ABOUT 40 years ago dozens of Sikh families hid in a temple in Wolverhampton as a far-right mob laid waste nearby in a rampage that wasnât a rarity in 1970s Britain, whether in the former âworkshop of the worldâ or elsewhere.
The reason? Race. Enoch Powellâs infamous ârivers of bloodâ speech was within recent memory as part of the country shifted not just uncomfortably, but angrily in its seat in the face of immigration.