2015年12月26日 星期六

The death and life of the great British pub... Are these England's most beautiful pubs? Teddy Hall, University of Oxford



The best of the Guardian 2015: British pubs are being shuttered at an alarming rate – scooped up by developers and ransacked for profit – changing the face of neighbourhoods and turning our beloved locals into estate agents, betting shops, and luxury flats. This is the story of one pub that fought back.

Across the UK, pubs are being shuttered at an alarming rate – scooped up by developers and ransacked for profit – changing the face of neighbourhoods and turning our beloved locals into estate agents, betting shops, and luxury flats. This is the story of how one pub fought back


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The long read: Across the country, pubs are being shuttered at an alarming rate – scooped up by developers and ransacked for profit – changing the face of neighbourhoods and turning our beloved locals into estate agents, betting shops, and luxury flats. This is the story of how one pub fought back
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The beautiful St Edmund Hall lays claim to being the oldest college. The exact date it was founded is uncertain, but it is likely to be the late 13th century.
Teddy Hall students enjoy fantastic college buildings, from the 12th-century church which now houses the college library to the 17th-century chapel decorated with stained glass by Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris.
Notable alumni include comedians Al Murray, Stewart Lee and Terry Jones.



Some of the latest pubs across England to be granted listed status.


From BBC News Magazine.
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2015年12月22日 星期二

2015年12月20日 星期日

Britain's busiest and quietest stations:Shippea Hill railway station

Shippea Hill: the railway station that saw just 22 journeys in ...

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4 days ago - So if Shippea Hill is the quietest station in the country, what's the busiest? London Waterloo, which had 99m passenger entries and exits last ...

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    Shippea Hill railway station is in Cambridgeshire, England. It was opened in 1845 as Mildenhall Road. In 1885, its name was changed to Burnt Fen, and about 1904 to Shippea Hill. Shippea Hill is on the line between Ely and Norwich. Wikipedia
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英國鐵路公路局公佈全國最忙和最閑火車站。‪#‎uk‬
最繁忙的火車站是倫敦滑鐵盧車站(Waterloo),去年共有9920萬人次進出車站。
最清閒的是劍橋郡的西皮山(Shippea Hill)全年僅22人次進出。
全英國十大最忙和最閑火車站排名,來看看吧。你去過哪幾個?
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2015年12月14日 星期一

英國政府對留學生築起高牆


【對留學生築起高牆的英國政府】

今年 7 月英國政府通過新移民與留學生條例。商務大臣 Sajid Javid 表示:「國際學生應該來這裡唸書,然後打包離開。」

新政策也讓非歐盟大學學生的生活費學費雙雙提高,簽證年限縮短。從各種新規定中,不難看出英國政府對非歐盟英國學生的不友善,意在言外地強調一個訊息:「拜託學位拿了,就快點滾回你的國家去吧!」

【英國觀察】

在講求族群平等與融合的現代社會,英國政府卻訂定法條保護「自己人」。是歧視,還是對國人權益的保障呢?

「非歐盟學生的學費是本地學生的 3 倍,高學費也是英國政府拿來抵制越來越多國際學生的方法之一。英國經濟的繁榮,我想,國際學生貢獻良多」

2015年12月12日 星期六

dream of social solidarity is chiselled away to nothing.


"So the refusal to allow councils to build replacements for the homes they were forced to sell back in the 1980s, and now the madness (for all except the lucky tenants) of selling housing association homes, comes full circle, with the ban on long-term tenancies. Council housing will increasingly be for the neediest, the most dysfunctional or the desperate. And so another part of the 20th century dream of social solidarity is chiselled away to nothing."
The government’s new policy of reviewing council tenancies every five years will pitch thousands of people into an uncertain future
THEGUARDIAN.COM|由 ANNE PERKINS 上傳

2015年12月6日 星期日

The end of deep coal mining in Britain: ‘They’ve knocked us down’

The closure of the Kellingley colliery heralds the end of the British coal mining industry. Taking with it decades of camaraderie and history, this local tragedy is shrouding Yorkshire in sadness

After surviving Margaret Thatcher and myriad strikes, but deep coal…
THEGUARDIAN.COM|由 SUSANNA RUSTIN 上傳