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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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Social media giant Meta has agreed to a $18bn (£13.3bn) settlement with US states and territories to resolve claims that Facebook and Instagram harmed children.
A California judge approved the settlement, which Meta must pay to 48 states, plus the District of Columbia and three US territories, marking the company’s largest payment over child safety litigation to date.
Meta will also implement a host of changes aimed at better protecting kids online, which the states had demanded, including default daily time limits and night-time blocks.
Meta has denied any wrongdoing as part of the settlement and said on Wednesday that the payment it agreed to “will be distributed in annual instalments over a 10-year period”.
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Convicted Bosnian Serb war criminal Ratko Mladić has died in a UN prison at The Hague aged 84.
He was jailed for life in 2017 for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity during the wars in the former Yugoslavia in 1992-95.
BBC News explores the details of who Ratko Mladić was, what his crimes were, and what unfolded at his trial.
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Prime Minister Andy Burnham has told the BBC that PC Andrew Harper’s killers will remain behind bars as he announces changes to the early release scheme aimed at easing prison overcrowding.
In an exclusive interview with BBC Breakfast, Burnham said anyone convicted of manslaughter will be excluded from changes brought in under the Sentencing Act, which would have made the killers eligible for early release.
Burnham said extra prison spaces would be created by deporting “hundreds” of foreign prisoners and releasing some inmates serving indefinite sentences.
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Twenty-seven people have been killed and almost 400 evacuated after a Russian strike hit a warehouse near Kyiv, triggering a fire and a series of explosions.
Regional governor Tymur Tkachenko said a further 42 people, including four children, were injured after the Russian drone strike in the Bucha district.
An investigation has been launched into whether ammunition was being stored at the site, where search and rescue operations were ongoing early on Saturday.
Russia’s Ministry of Defence said in a statement that its forces had targeted “an ammunition depot” in the Kyiv region village of Myla, which stores “components and launch boosters for FP-1/FP-2 long-range unmanned aerial vehicles”.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky expressed his condolences to the families of the victims of the strike, saying that more than 300 emergency respondents had been deployed to the strike area.
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Norway’s King Harald V has died at the age of 89, after he was taken to hospital last week for treatment for a rare blood condition.
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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