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It has been 40 years since the release of The Long Good Friday, a gangster film still revered as one of the best British movies of all time. Shot in London in the late 1970s and starring the late Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren, it told the story of an underworld boss trying desperately to stop the IRA from dismantling his empire.
The backdrop for the film was the London Docklands, then mostly undeveloped. With corrupt city planners in his pocket, Hoskins’ character – the pugnacious, barrel-chested Harold Shand – attempts to woo the New York mafia into a partnership to transform the area, selling the idea to them with a speech during a trip up the Thames on his yacht. “Our country is not an island any more,” he snarls. “We’re a leading European state. And I believe this is the decade in which London
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This boat was one of several that were involved in the search for 69-year-old Rosa Couch of London. Rain and fog on the Cumberland River posed challenges to rescue squads participating in Friday s search.Â
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Boat ramps near London Dock served as posts for rescue squad members involved in the ongoing search for Rosa Couch, who has been missing since Feb. 17.
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Several rescue teams were on hand Friday - as they have been since the search for Rosa Couch of London was launched last month after she was reported missing.
Trust s report detailed links between 93 properties and slavery and colonialism
Winston Churchill s former home, Chartwell, in Kent, was on the list
Move prompted a fierce backlash and the trust faced accusations of wokeism
But Charity Commission today cleared it of breaking charity law
Brexiteer Nigel Farage said he had become increasingly appalled by the trust
Historian Simon Heffer said he was astonished the trust had not been censured
Servers affected include those used by ESA, Villarreal football club, and some misused by malware miscreants
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Updated Customers of European cloud hosting provider OVH have been told it plans to restart three data centres on its French campus in Strasbourg next week, following a massive fire on site this morning that destroyed one bit barn.
The SBG1 and SBG4 data centres are scheduled to reopen by Monday 15 March and the SBG3 DC by Friday next week. SBG2 was wiped out by the blaze but fortunately no one was hurt in the incident.
The fire caused serious disruption across European websites, with, according to Netcraft, 3.6 million websites across 464,000 distinct domains. taken offline.
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