Author: Danica Kirka
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Rain, rain go away: A London slog for Olympics?
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save LONDON — After a sodden spring, is Britain heading for a summer washout? It’s lurched from the cold, wet drizzle that dampened the queen’s Diamond Jubilee flotilla on the Thames to a sea of mud…
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Rain, rain go away: A London slog for Olympics?
LONDON — After a sodden spring, is Britain heading for a summer washout? It’s lurched from the cold, wet drizzle that dampened the queen’s Diamond Jubilee flotilla on the Thames to a sea of mud at the Isle of Wight music festival to frequent delays at Wimbledon, where even the retractable roof couldn’t make the…
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London tries tripling police presence to end riots
LONDON — London began nearly tripling the number of police on its streets Tuesday to try to end Britain’s worst rioting in a generation — three nights of looting and burning by poor, diverse and brazen crowds of young people. Scenes of ransacked stores, torched cars and blackened buildings frightened and outraged Britons just a…
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For one U.K. officer, a time to stand and be counted
LONDON — For more than a decade, he had prepared for that moment.Lt. Cmdr. Craig Jones climbed the staircase into the captain’s cabin, with its porthole overlooking the sea and its matched pictures of Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh. The captain paused in a conversation with his executive officer and took a…