Breaking news
TfL is urged to rename Maryland station because of ‘links to local slave owner with plantations in America’ despite doubts about name’s origin Newham councillors called for review of Maryland station amid alleged slave link But academics argued the name’s origin is from Old English word for boundary If approved, the name change could lead … Read more
More than 200 statues, streets and buildings in Wales named after historic Britons have been identified as having connections to the slave trade, according to a Welsh government-ordered audit. The review was ordered by First Minister Mark Drakeford following the death of George Floyd in the US and the toppling of the statue of Edward … Read more
A quirky narrow house lived in by the same 83-year-old man for nearly all his life which is ‘like a museum’ and filled with retro fittings has gone up for sale. The narrow house, on Millbrook Road East, in Southampton, Hampshire, somehow crams in three bedrooms, and four reception rooms across three floors and is … Read more
Exposed: Dominic Cummings’s links with two of the four companies detailed in damning PPE report National Audit Office said officials signed contracts for thousands of facemasks But masks turned out to be unusable – wasting hundreds of millions of pounds NAO looked at 8,600 contracts awarded by Government from January to July Cummings has links … Read more
Marie Stopes abortion charity changes its name to MSI Reproductive Choices to distance itself from its founder’s links to eugenics Charity is dropping name of woman who created Britain’s first birth control clinic The charity will instead be known as MSI Reproductive Choices from today Stopes was advocate for sterilisation of people considered unfit for … Read more
National Trust for Scotland will carry out review into historic properties with links to slavery including Culzean Castle which featured in horror film the Wicker Man Volunteers will look at history of properties in a review named ‘Facing Our Past’ Culzean Castle in Ayrshire and the Glenfinnan Monument will both be reviewed Audiences are ‘demanding … Read more
Helena Bonham Carter, 53, links arms with toyboy Rye Dag Holmboe, 32, as the couple are joined by her son Billy, 17, for a dog walk in London By Ellie Phillips For Mailonline Published: 13:17 GMT, 16 November 2020 | Updated: 13:17 GMT, 16 November 2020 They’ve been inseparable since first being linked in October … Read more
Scotland’s first black professor will lead review of controversial statues and street names in Edinburgh with links to slavery in wake of BLM protests Sir Geoff Palmer, 80, will lead steering group, which will meet before end of year Human rights activist said it was an ‘honour’ to be asked to work with the group Group … Read more
Statue at University of Cambridge of 17th century royal adviser who helped its library buy their first books could be removed over his links to slave trade Tobias Rustat, adviser to Charles II, was first benefactor of Cambridge University library in 1667 He gave library an endowment of £1,000 – about £240,000 in today’s money … Read more
A Russian woman identified as a key source in the dossier by British counterintelligence specialist Christopher Steele dossier is a former employee of Kremlin-owned state media. Steele’s infamous report was leaked weeks before Trump’s inauguration, alleging Russian influence over him and contained salacious information about his reported conduct in a Moscow hotel room during the … Read more