How Achebe and Marley inspired a London teenager
As an African-American teen growing up in inner city London, I feted Chinua Achebe and Bob Marley for similar reasons, says Channel 4 News’ Keme Nzerem.
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JP Morgan is punished for a failure of oversight, after a British employee known as the London Whale was allowed to make risky bets for years, and cover up the losses.
The death of a young intern at banking firm Merrill Lynch is blamed on overwork. But why is the culture of long hours so endemic? Is it ambition – or pressure from the top?
It’s enough to make your stomach churn, but this 15-tonne blockage of congealed fat, found underneath Kingston, is said to be the biggest ever removed from a London sewer.
A trophy for the best, a mop and bucket for the worst – campaigners go to Whitehall to expose which departments are paying workers a London living wage.
London Mayor Boris Johnson withdraws his support for expansion of Gatwick airport and instead backs a new estuary airport or Stansted expansion to boost London’s aviation capacity.
Police in riot gear clash with protesters on the streets of London and demonstrations against the forthcoming G8 summit begin.
Supporters of the far-right English Defence League march through central London, closely followed by anti-fascist protesters, after the murder of soldier Lee Rigby in Woolwich on Wednesday.
The royal will give out prizes to winners at the race this weekend amid a review of the security arrangements following the Boston bomb attack.
As an African-American teen growing up in inner city London, I feted Chinua Achebe and Bob Marley for similar reasons, says Channel 4 News’ Keme Nzerem.
Officers seize four primed mortars minutes before dissident republicans planned to blitz a police station in Northern Ireland, according to detectives.
North Londoners are campaigning against the clock for a local Banksy mural to be returned to the wall of a Poundland shop after it mysteriously disappeared and then popped up at a Miami auction house.
Transport for London warns “significant disruption” is likely on the tube due to a Boxing day strike by train drivers’ union Aslef over holiday working conditions and pay.
New population data shows a more ethnically diverse England and Wales, with four in five residents now describing themselves as white British and a rise in mixed race households to 12 per cent.
England’s regions can no longer rely on handouts from tax receipts collected in the City of London, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg will say later today.
Why, 15 months after pupils and teachers submitted allegations of widespread cheating at a Dulwich academy school, have exam boards failed to conclude their inquiries?