Given the first sign of good weather, London s parks - including Hyde Park, Kensington Gardens and Green Park - will be packed. However, there are also more private gardens to discover.
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It s hard to believe that there could be any secrets left to discover in London. After all, it s teeming with 10million people and is one of the most visited cities in the world.
But this mesmerising metropolis hides plenty of unexpected treasures, as new book Abandoned London (www.amberbooks.co.uk) reveals.
Written by Katie Wignall - a London Blue Badge tourist guide and founder of the Look Up London history blog and walking tour company - the tome features images and detailed historical descriptions of more than 200 sites left to ruin. In it you can read about the subterranean Finsbury Park underground reservoir, a space capable of holding five million gallons of water and today used as an occasional movie location; the remnants of Highgate s overground steam railway station, now a protected bat habitat, and the Haggerston public baths, part of an early 20th century building programme devised to improve London s hygiene.
Was Diana âinveigledâ into the BBC Panorama interview?
This week, minister Robert Buckland used the word to describe Martin Bashirâs interview â and the royal family do have a long history of being âblindedâ by others
Diana, Princess of Wales was persuaded to appear on Panorama by lies and forged documents. Photograph: Lajos Soos/EPA
Diana, Princess of Wales was persuaded to appear on Panorama by lies and forged documents. Photograph: Lajos Soos/EPA
Thu 27 May 2021 01.00 EDT
The BBC needed to restore trust in itself, said the British government (in which public trust is immaculate), after an inquiry found that Diana, Princess of Wales had been persuaded to appear on
12 May 2021
The Queen is pleased to appoint Mr Gawn William Rowan Hamilton DL as Her Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant for County Down to succeed Mr David Lindsay, who is due to retire on 25th September.
Background
Gawn Rowan Hamilton was educated at Eton College and Cambridge. An accountant by training, he has worked for Ernst & Young and Schroders plc and was CFO and Co-founder of Mergermarket Ltd until 2009. He has been an investor in 15 start-up companies ranging from expert networks to technology-led bio-engineering businesses. He was Co-founder and CFO with Taskmaestro Ltd and is currently a Non-Executive Director of Eagle Alpha, an alternative data business in Dublin.
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Appointment of Lord-Lieutenant for County Down 12 May 2021
The Queen is pleased to appoint Mr Gawn William Rowan Hamilton DL as Her Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant for County Down to succeed Mr David Lindsay, who is due to retire on 25th September.
Background
Gawn Rowan Hamilton was educated at Eton College and Cambridge. An accountant by training, he has worked for Ernst & Young and Schroders plc and was CFO and Co-founder of Mergermarket Ltd until 2009. He has been an investor in 15 start-up companies ranging from expert networks to technology-led bio-engineering businesses. He was Co-founder and CFO with Taskmaestro Ltd and is currently a Non-Executive Director of Eagle Alpha, an alternative data business in Dublin.