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King’s Coronation: The last lamplighters of London – BBC News
More than 25,000 lamplighters used to roam the streets of London, lighting up the streets of the capital, now there are just five.
Their job is a unique one and still very relevant today.
Ahead of the coronation of King Charles, the remaining lamplighters had a special task, to turn one lamp into a shining jewel in its own right.
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Keith Biddlecombe was jailed for being homosexual after being caught with another man, 61 years ago.
He was freed – only to be told of a new tragedy he has had to bear his entire life since.
Here, the Isle of Wight native – who now lives in Brighton – speaks about what it was like to be gay, before homosexuality was partially decriminalised 50 years ago on 27 July 1967.
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Ukraine accuses Putin of breaking promise to Trump with airstrikes on infrastructure | BBC News
Russia and Ukraine launched air attacks that damaged each other’s infrastructure, just hours after Vladimir Putin said Russia would stop targeting Ukrainian energy sites.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia’s targets included hospitals. He said the Russian leader had in effect rejected a comprehensive ceasefire in his phone talks with US President Donald Trump.
Putin told Trump a full ceasefire would only work if Ukraine’s allies stopped giving military assistance – a condition Ukraine’s European allies have previously rejected.
Officials in the southern Russian region of Krasnodar said that a Ukrainian drone attack sparked a small fire at an oil depot. Within hours of Putin agreeing to halt attacks on energy infrastructure, Zelensky said there had been “hits, specifically on civilian infrastructure”, including a hospital in Sumy.
The region’s government posted footage of the destruction, in which smoke can be seen rising from the caved-in hospital wing. Officials have since said that there had been no casualties.
Russian state media has reported the Trump-Putin phone call as a victory for their country, with President Putin rejecting calls for a 30-day ceasefire and restating previous conditions.
Clive Myrie presents BBC News at Ten reporting by James Landale in Kyiv and Steve Rosenberg in Moscow.
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One hundred years ago today women finally won the right to vote. The Representation of the People Act meant that women over 30 who owned property could at last have their say. It was a right that was fought for and won by the suffragette movement. It was a movement that began in Manchester. Its leader was Emmeline Pankhurst. Our Correspondent Elaine Dunkley looks back at her legacy.
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At least 13 people have reportedly been killed in air strikes across Gaza overnight, after Israel said it was resuming combat operations in the Palestinian territory.
Two civilians were killed and five others injured when an Israeli drone hit a tent near the al-Mawasi humanitarian zone, the Palestinian Wafa news agency reports, citing Red Crescent medics.
Israel’s army said it had targeted what it called a Hamas military site from where the group was preparing to fire into Israel. Vessels controlled by Hamas were also hit, the army said.
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The Hamas-run civil defence agency has said at least 55 Palestinians have been killed in overnight Israeli air strikes in Gaza.
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@yamyam2987
January 27, 2024 at 8:00 am
Sherlock Holmes vibes
@nintendolover114
January 27, 2024 at 8:00 am
London is so rich in history it's ridiculous
@gpaderx6105
January 27, 2024 at 8:00 am
I'm just thinking about Lin Manuel Miranda's song about Lamplighters in Mary Poppins Returns
@jeffreydeanfong8480
January 27, 2024 at 8:00 am
I’m wondering why the crown is a Scottish crown.
@GoldSpot-pf1yb
January 27, 2024 at 8:00 am
Nice.
Meanwhile our politicians are gaslighting the public. Ha ha.
@callumnineninenine6886
January 27, 2024 at 8:00 am
Doesn't seem that authentic when you walk up to a bloke lighting the lamp and realizing he has a British gas jumper on 😂😂
@ianhambozi1531
January 27, 2024 at 8:00 am
Have the bulbs been modernised over the years.
@bigboy5428
January 27, 2024 at 8:00 am
Love British history what a country with amazing history 🇬🇧👍
@welshmanjasonpatrick8607
January 27, 2024 at 8:00 am
Gas lamps are still going in London say about 5 are ther today are ther any still going to round UK
@TheEvilpot
January 27, 2024 at 8:00 am
Amazing to see Bruce Willis start this new line of work.
@BigPinkJohn
January 27, 2024 at 8:00 am
I didn't know there where any gas lamps left in london. Is there a map of them all ?
@jamescraven5001
January 27, 2024 at 8:00 am
Keep this old tradition going for years to come
@kathryncarter6143
January 27, 2024 at 8:00 am
Good except for the very annoying snapping of fingers at the beginning.
@robnewman6101
January 27, 2024 at 8:00 am
Future Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland.
@robnewman6101
January 27, 2024 at 8:00 am
GOD SAVE THE KING.
LONG LIVE THE KING.
@faithlesshound5621
January 27, 2024 at 8:00 am
I remember when electric lighting was introduced to the residential streets of Edinburgh in the late 1950's, the soft greenish glow of the gas lamps was replaced by a bright yellow glare from what I understood to be "sodium lamps" which were painful to look at directly. Those were replaced in their turn.
@malcolmjawohowelll2892
January 27, 2024 at 8:00 am
this is a fantastic trip back in time …how far we have travelled its wonderful to see all these specialist roles performed by working people ,,,when everthing required a man or womans labour to get things done
@a.t.c.3862
January 27, 2024 at 8:00 am
Wonderful, magical. 🙏
@frankparsons1629
January 27, 2024 at 8:00 am
Let there be light.
@lachlangriffiths9434
January 27, 2024 at 8:00 am
“And then the lighting of the lamps” TS Eliot