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Poems on the Underground

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If you’ve travelled on the tube at all in the last few years you’re sure to have noticed the Poems on the Underground project.

Back in 1986 writer Judith Chernaik had an idea. She wanted to bring poetry to the masses and what better way to do it than in the dead time when they were [...]

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Bye bye bendy buses

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Much to the dismay of fare dodgers everywhere, Boris Johnson has taken the first steps towards undoing one of the most notorious legacies of his predecessor.
At 00:32 on Saturday, the last no. 507 bendy bus let its passengers off at Waterloo station then went gently into that good night.
And by 2011 all of [...]

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