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London Live was a local television channel in London, England, [1] which aired local news, current affairs, sports, arts, events, and entertainment. The channel launched in 2014 to serve the London area under the legislation for local television , and broadcasts on Freeview and Sky .
The Boat Races 2017 (also known as The Cancer Research UK Boat Races for the purposes of sponsorship) took place on 2 April 2017. Held annually, the Boat Race is a side-by-side rowing race between crews from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge along a 4.2-mile (6.8 km) tidal stretch of the River Thames in south-west London.
It was the subject of the world's first webcam, created by Quentin Stafford-Fraser and Paul Jardetzky in 1991. To save people working in the building the disappointment of finding the coffee machine empty after making the trip to the room, a camera was set up providing a live picture of the coffee pot to all desktop computers on the office network.
Yellow warnings currently in place as blustering winds and flooding wreak havoc across UK Storm Debi – live: London weather warning extended as Met Office warns of lightning damage to buildings ...
[26] [110] Based on a small sample in Putney High Street, McCahill and Norris extrapolated the number of surveillance cameras in Greater London to be around 500,000 and the total number of cameras in the UK to be around 4.2M. According to their estimate the UK has one camera for every 14 people.
In 2009, the City of London accounted for 2.4% of UK GDP. [14] London's foreign exchange market has been described by Reuters as 'the crown jewel of London's financial sector'. [82] Of the $3.98 trillion daily global turnover, as measured in 2009, trading in London accounted for around $1.85 trillion, or 46.7% of the total. [14]
London is an ancient name, attested in the first century AD, usually in the Latinised form Londinium. [36] Modern scientific analyses of the name must account for the origins of the different forms found in early sources: Latin (usually Londinium), Old English (usually Lunden), and Welsh (usually Llundein), with reference to the known developments over time of sounds in those different languages.
In January 2024 the piano was the subject of a public dispute involving UK YouTuber Brendan Kavanagh, who is known as Dr. K and for his public piano performances.During a live-streaming session of him playing the piano, a Chinese group, apparently part of a television crew, approached him.