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  • November 21st. Westminster. Demonstration organised by National Union of Students (NUS) against education cuts. A group of students stand shouting in front of Big Ben with placards saying ' Demo 2012. Educate. Employ. Empower' and 'Get the Tories Out'.
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  • November 21st. Westminster. Demonstration organised by National Union of Students (NUS) against education cuts. Students from Sussex University hold placards saying 'F**k fees' and 'Demo2012. Educate, Employ, Empower'.
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  • November 21st. Westminster. Demonstration organised by National Union of Students (NUS) against education cuts. A young woman has a sticker on her cheek  saying ' Demo 2012. Educate. Employ. Empower'.
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  • Row of buildings, mostly empty, stands in a baijiu liquor distillery city, made in imitation of a traditional Chinese city,  in Liulin, Shanxi province, China, on Thursday, May 19, 2016. Shanxi is facing a challenge shared by a sweeping region across Chinas industrial north: how to shut down cash-burning mines that employ millions of people whose prospects are uncertain in the new economy promised by President Xi Jinping. New business ventures like the distillery city, funded by coal money with grandiose hopes and expectations, often prove too ambitious and unrealistic.
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  • A man shovels coal while standing on the top of a truck at a coal mine and processing facility in Liulin, Shanxi province, China, on Thursday, May 19, 2016. Shanxi is facing a challenge shared by a sweeping region across Chinas industrial north: how to shut down cash-burning mines that employ millions of people whose prospects are uncertain in the new economy promised by President Xi Jinping.
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  • A man stands on a street with row of buildings, mostly empty, in a baijiu liquor distillery city, made in imitation of a traditional Chinese city,  in Liulin, Shanxi province, China, on Thursday, May 19, 2016. Shanxi is facing a challenge shared by a sweeping region across Chinas industrial north: how to shut down cash-burning mines that employ millions of people whose prospects are uncertain in the new economy promised by President Xi Jinping. New business ventures like the distillery city, funded by coal money with grandiose hopes and expectations, often prove too ambitious and unrealistic.
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  • A woman walks past the gates of a baijiu liquor distillery city, made in imitation of a traditional Chinese city,  in Liulin, Shanxi province, China, on Thursday, May 19, 2016. Shanxi is facing a challenge shared by a sweeping region across Chinas industrial north: how to shut down cash-burning mines that employ millions of people whose prospects are uncertain in the new economy promised by President Xi Jinping. New business ventures like the distillery city, funded by coal money with grandiose hopes and expectations, often prove too ambitious and unrealistic.
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  • A man rides his scooter past the gates of a baijiu liquor distillery city, made in imitation of a traditional Chinese city,  in Liulin, Shanxi province, China, on Thursday, May 19, 2016. Shanxi is facing a challenge shared by a sweeping region across Chinas industrial north: how to shut down cash-burning mines that employ millions of people whose prospects are uncertain in the new economy promised by President Xi Jinping. New business ventures like the distillery city, funded by coal money with grandiose hopes and expectations, often prove too ambitious and unrealistic.
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  • Miners line up to enter the shaft and begin their shift at a coal mine and processing facility in Liulin, Shanxi province, China, on Thursday, May 19, 2016. Shanxi is facing a challenge shared by a sweeping region across Chinas industrial north: how to shut down cash-burning mines that employ millions of people whose prospects are uncertain in the new economy promised by President Xi Jinping.
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  • Miners line up to enter the shaft and begin their shift at a coal mine and processing facility in Liulin, Shanxi province, China, on Thursday, May 19, 2016. Shanxi is facing a challenge shared by a sweeping region across Chinas industrial north: how to shut down cash-burning mines that employ millions of people whose prospects are uncertain in the new economy promised by President Xi Jinping.
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  • A miner uses his locker after finishing his shift at a coal mine and processing facility in Liulin, Shanxi province, China, on Thursday, May 19, 2016. Shanxi is facing a challenge shared by a sweeping region across Chinas industrial north: how to shut down cash-burning mines that employ millions of people whose prospects are uncertain in the new economy promised by President Xi Jinping.
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  • A miner rides a lift up to exit the mine shaft after finishing his shift at a coal mine and processing facility in Liulin, Shanxi province, China, on Thursday, May 19, 2016. Shanxi is facing a challenge shared by a sweeping region across Chinas industrial north: how to shut down cash-burning mines that employ millions of people whose prospects are uncertain in the new economy promised by President Xi Jinping.
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  • A miner rides a lift up to exit the mine shaft after finishing his shift at a coal mine and processing facility in Liulin, Shanxi province, China, on Thursday, May 19, 2016. Shanxi is facing a challenge shared by a sweeping region across Chinas industrial north: how to shut down cash-burning mines that employ millions of people whose prospects are uncertain in the new economy promised by President Xi Jinping.
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  • A miner walks out after using a retina scan to confirm indignity after a shift at a coal mine and processing facility in Liulin, Shanxi province, China, on Thursday, May 19, 2016. Shanxi is facing a challenge shared by a sweeping region across Chinas industrial north: how to shut down cash-burning mines that employ millions of people whose prospects are uncertain in the new economy promised by President Xi Jinping.
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  • A miner walks out after a shift at a coal mine and processing facility in Liulin, Shanxi province, China, on Thursday, May 19, 2016. Shanxi is facing a challenge shared by a sweeping region across Chinas industrial north: how to shut down cash-burning mines that employ millions of people whose prospects are uncertain in the new economy promised by President Xi Jinping.
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  • University students looking for jobs at an employment fair in Hangzhou, China on 27 January 2010.  As China has rapidly expanded college enrollment in recent years, resulting in 6.1 million college graduates in 2009 compared with only 850,000 ten years ago, it is increasingly becoming difficult for graduates to find jobs, while starting average salary has actually dropped in the last few years.
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  • Striking cleaners from the union, United Voices of the World stage a picket protest outside the Ministry of Justice Headquarters in London, England on August 07, 2018. The cleaners strike is taking place over a three day period and covers cleaners working under the Amey, OCS and Compas contracts at three Ministry of Justice sites, large hospitals, and Kensington and Chelsea Town Halls, where the cleaners are demanding better pay and employment rights, including sick pay, living wage and equality with directly employed staff.
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  • Striking cleaners from the union, United Voices of the World stage a picket protest outside the Ministry of Justice Headquarters in London, England on August 07, 2018. The cleaners strike is taking place over a three day period and covers cleaners working under the Amey, OCS and Compas contracts at three Ministry of Justice sites, large hospitals, and Kensington and Chelsea Town Halls, where the cleaners are demanding better pay and employment rights, including sick pay, living wage and equality with directly employed staff.
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  • Striking cleaners from the union, United Voices of the World stage a picket protest outside the Ministry of Justice Headquarters in London, England on August 07, 2018. The cleaners strike is taking place over a three day period and covers cleaners working under the Amey, OCS and Compas contracts at three Ministry of Justice sites, large hospitals, and Kensington and Chelsea Town Halls, where the cleaners are demanding better pay and employment rights, including sick pay, living wage and equality with directly employed staff.
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  • Striking cleaners from the union, United Voices of the World stage a picket protest outside the Ministry of Justice Headquarters in London, England on August 07, 2018. The cleaners strike is taking place over a three day period and covers cleaners working under the Amey, OCS and Compas contracts at three Ministry of Justice sites, large hospitals, and Kensington and Chelsea Town Halls, where the cleaners are demanding better pay and employment rights, including sick pay, living wage and equality with directly employed staff.
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  • Striking cleaners from the union, United Voices of the World stage a picket protest outside the Ministry of Justice Headquarters in London, England on August 07, 2018. The cleaners strike is taking place over a three day period and covers cleaners working under the Amey, OCS and Compas contracts at three Ministry of Justice sites, large hospitals, and Kensington and Chelsea Town Halls, where the cleaners are demanding better pay and employment rights, including sick pay, living wage and equality with directly employed staff.
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  • Striking cleaners from the union, United Voices of the World stage a picket protest outside the Ministry of Justice Headquarters in London, England on August 07, 2018. The cleaners strike is taking place over a three day period and covers cleaners working under the Amey, OCS and Compas contracts at three Ministry of Justice sites, large hospitals, and Kensington and Chelsea Town Halls, where the cleaners are demanding better pay and employment rights, including sick pay, living wage and equality with directly employed staff.
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  • Striking cleaners from the union, United Voices of the World stage a picket protest outside the Ministry of Justice Headquarters in London, England on August 07, 2018. The cleaners strike is taking place over a three day period and covers cleaners working under the Amey, OCS and Compas contracts at three Ministry of Justice sites, large hospitals, and Kensington and Chelsea Town Halls, where the cleaners are demanding better pay and employment rights, including sick pay, living wage and equality with directly employed staff.
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  • A construction hoarding from the contractor Keir and undergrowth of nearby church land, on 30th January 2018, in the south London borough of Southwark, England. Kier Group is a leading property, residential, construction and services group, employing over 21,000 people in its operations in the UK, the Middle East, Australia and Hong Kong.
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  • A construction hoarding from the contractor Keir and undergrowth of nearby church land, on 30th January 2018, in the south London borough of Southwark, England. Kier Group is a leading property, residential, construction and services group, employing over 21,000 people in its operations in the UK, the Middle East, Australia and Hong Kong.
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  • Carrying a bag with the words We love the way you live, a lady walks past the hoarding featuring the face of an NHS Staff Nurse employed at University College London, on 25th January 2018, in London, England.
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  • UNISON celebrates its landmark victory over the scrapping of employment tribunal fees at the Supreme Court in London with general secretary Dave Prentis on July 26th 2017 in London, United Kingdom. The decision means that fees for those bringing employment tribunal claims have been ruled unlawful. In 2013, the government introduced fees to minimise the amount of cases, which led to a 79% reduction over three years. The trade union Unison made the case that the ruling prevented workers gaining access to justice. This has now been overturned.
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  • UNISON celebrates its landmark victory over the scrapping of employment tribunal fees at the Supreme Court in London with general secretary Dave Prentis on July 26th 2017 in London, United Kingdom. The decision means that fees for those bringing employment tribunal claims have been ruled unlawful. In 2013, the government introduced fees to minimise the amount of cases, which led to a 79% reduction over three years. The trade union Unison made the case that the ruling prevented workers gaining access to justice. This has now been overturned.
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  • UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis being interviewed by the BBC as UNISON celebrates its landmark victory over  the scrapping of employment tribunal fees at the Supreme Court on July 26th 2017 in London, United Kingdom. The decision means that fees for those bringing employment tribunal claims have been ruled unlawful. In 2013, the government introduced fees to minimise the amount of cases, which led to a 79% reduction over three years. The trade union Unison made the case that the ruling prevented workers gaining access to justice. This has now been overturned.
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  • Secretary of State for Employment and Conservative MP, Michael Howard at the Conservative party conference on 11th October 1990 in Blackpool, England.
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  • Protest for Fernando Montero outside his old workplace. London, UK. On 17th December 2015, Fernando Montero died following a heart attack. For the last 5 years he was employed as a cleaner by outsourcing giant Servest at the Willis Building, in the City. During this time, he was victim of a destructive workplace culture. His supervisors repeatedly shouted at him in public, refused him the right to use the toilet outside of break time, and failed to grant him annual leave. On the day of his death, Fernando called a friend in a state of distress. Too anxious to return to work, due to the treatment of himself and fellow workers. A few hours later, he was dead. For his wife Francia, the link between workplace stress and his death is straightforward: “He passed away of a heart attack because of the stress brought about by the abuse and bullying of his bosses.”
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  • Protest for Fernando Montero outside his old workplace. London, UK. On 17th December 2015, Fernando Montero died following a heart attack. For the last 5 years he was employed as a cleaner by outsourcing giant Servest at the Willis Building, in the City. During this time, he was victim of a destructive workplace culture. His supervisors repeatedly shouted at him in public, refused him the right to use the toilet outside of break time, and failed to grant him annual leave. On the day of his death, Fernando called a friend in a state of distress. Too anxious to return to work, due to the treatment of himself and fellow workers. A few hours later, he was dead. For his wife Francia, the link between workplace stress and his death is straightforward: “He passed away of a heart attack because of the stress brought about by the abuse and bullying of his bosses.”
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  • Protest for Fernando Montero outside his old workplace. London, UK. On 17th December 2015, Fernando Montero died following a heart attack. For the last 5 years he was employed as a cleaner by outsourcing giant Servest at the Willis Building, in the City. During this time, he was victim of a destructive workplace culture. His supervisors repeatedly shouted at him in public, refused him the right to use the toilet outside of break time, and failed to grant him annual leave. On the day of his death, Fernando called a friend in a state of distress. Too anxious to return to work, due to the treatment of himself and fellow workers. A few hours later, he was dead. For his wife Francia (pictured), the link between workplace stress and his death is straightforward: “He passed away of a heart attack because of the stress brought about by the abuse and bullying of his bosses.”
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  • Protest for Fernando Montero outside his old workplace. London, UK. On 17th December 2015, Fernando Montero died following a heart attack. For the last 5 years he was employed as a cleaner by outsourcing giant Servest at the Willis Building, in the City. During this time, he was victim of a destructive workplace culture. His supervisors repeatedly shouted at him in public, refused him the right to use the toilet outside of break time, and failed to grant him annual leave. On the day of his death, Fernando called a friend in a state of distress. Too anxious to return to work, due to the treatment of himself and fellow workers. A few hours later, he was dead. For his wife Francia, the link between workplace stress and his death is straightforward: “He passed away of a heart attack because of the stress brought about by the abuse and bullying of his bosses.”
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  • Protest for Fernando Montero outside his old workplace. London, UK. On 17th December 2015, Fernando Montero died following a heart attack. For the last 5 years he was employed as a cleaner by outsourcing giant Servest at the Willis Building, in the City. During this time, he was victim of a destructive workplace culture. His supervisors repeatedly shouted at him in public, refused him the right to use the toilet outside of break time, and failed to grant him annual leave. On the day of his death, Fernando called a friend in a state of distress. Too anxious to return to work, due to the treatment of himself and fellow workers. A few hours later, he was dead. For his wife Francia (pictured), the link between workplace stress and his death is straightforward: “He passed away of a heart attack because of the stress brought about by the abuse and bullying of his bosses.”
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  • Protest for Fernando Montero outside his old workplace. London, UK. On 17th December 2015, Fernando Montero died following a heart attack. For the last 5 years he was employed as a cleaner by outsourcing giant Servest at the Willis Building, in the City. During this time, he was victim of a destructive workplace culture. His supervisors repeatedly shouted at him in public, refused him the right to use the toilet outside of break time, and failed to grant him annual leave. On the day of his death, Fernando called a friend in a state of distress. Too anxious to return to work, due to the treatment of himself and fellow workers. A few hours later, he was dead. For his wife Francia, the link between workplace stress and his death is straightforward: “He passed away of a heart attack because of the stress brought about by the abuse and bullying of his bosses.”
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  • Protest for Fernando Montero outside his old workplace. London, UK. On 17th December 2015, Fernando Montero died following a heart attack. For the last 5 years he was employed as a cleaner by outsourcing giant Servest at the Willis Building, in the City. During this time, he was victim of a destructive workplace culture. His supervisors repeatedly shouted at him in public, refused him the right to use the toilet outside of break time, and failed to grant him annual leave. On the day of his death, Fernando called a friend in a state of distress. Too anxious to return to work, due to the treatment of himself and fellow workers. A few hours later, he was dead. For his wife Francia, the link between workplace stress and his death is straightforward: “He passed away of a heart attack because of the stress brought about by the abuse and bullying of his bosses.”
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  • Protest for Fernando Montero outside his old workplace. London, UK. On 17th December 2015, Fernando Montero died following a heart attack. For the last 5 years he was employed as a cleaner by outsourcing giant Servest at the Willis Building, in the City. During this time, he was victim of a destructive workplace culture. His supervisors repeatedly shouted at him in public, refused him the right to use the toilet outside of break time, and failed to grant him annual leave. On the day of his death, Fernando called a friend in a state of distress. Too anxious to return to work, due to the treatment of himself and fellow workers. A few hours later, he was dead. For his wife Francia, the link between workplace stress and his death is straightforward: “He passed away of a heart attack because of the stress brought about by the abuse and bullying of his bosses.”
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  • Protest for Fernando Montero outside his old workplace. London, UK. On 17th December 2015, Fernando Montero died following a heart attack. For the last 5 years he was employed as a cleaner by outsourcing giant Servest at the Willis Building, in the City. During this time, he was victim of a destructive workplace culture. His supervisors repeatedly shouted at him in public, refused him the right to use the toilet outside of break time, and failed to grant him annual leave. On the day of his death, Fernando called a friend in a state of distress. Too anxious to return to work, due to the treatment of himself and fellow workers. A few hours later, he was dead. For his wife Francia, the link between workplace stress and his death is straightforward: “He passed away of a heart attack because of the stress brought about by the abuse and bullying of his bosses.”
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  • Protest for Fernando Montero outside his old workplace. London, UK. On 17th December 2015, Fernando Montero died following a heart attack. For the last 5 years he was employed as a cleaner by outsourcing giant Servest at the Willis Building, in the City. During this time, he was victim of a destructive workplace culture. His supervisors repeatedly shouted at him in public, refused him the right to use the toilet outside of break time, and failed to grant him annual leave. On the day of his death, Fernando called a friend in a state of distress. Too anxious to return to work, due to the treatment of himself and fellow workers. A few hours later, he was dead. For his wife Francia, the link between workplace stress and his death is straightforward: “He passed away of a heart attack because of the stress brought about by the abuse and bullying of his bosses.”
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  • Laos is the most bombed country, per capita, in the world with more than 270 million cluster bomb submunitions dropped on it during the Vietnam War from 1963 to 1974. Pheng, 38 years old has worked as a technician for the Mines Advisory Group (MAG) in Xieng Khouang Province for a year. Her husband was killed by UXO whilst foraging for food in the forest a few years ago and she struggled to support her five children labouring in paddy fields and weaving at home with just enough income to keep the family alive. It's MAGs policy to select from the local population  the poorest members of the community to be trained and employed as technicians.
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  • Dabbawallahs (tiffinwallah) travel across Mumbai's using its extensive rail network as well as using their own bicycles delivering freshly prepared home cooked food to office workers throughout the city. This 125 year tradition, unique to the city employs 5000 tiffinwallahs delivering an average of 200.000 meals a day which are kept in the tin dabbas which are delivered by using both bicycle and the city's rail network. The dabbawallahs are distinctive by their impeccable white uniform which includes a Gandhi style cap and a service second to none which is the toast and the praise of enterprises such as Forbes magazine and other blue chip companies in terms of service, punctuality and delivery, Mumbai (Bombay), India
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  • Dabbawallahs (tiffinwallah) travel across Mumbai's using its extensive rail network as well as using their own bicycles delivering freshly prepared home cooked food to office workers throughout the city. This 125 year tradition, unique to the city employs 5000 tiffinwallahs delivering an average of 200.000 meals a day which are kept in the tin dabbas which are delivered by using both bicycle and the city's rail network. The dabbawallahs are distinctive by their impeccable white uniform which includes a Gandhi style cap and a service second to none which is the toast and the praise of enterprises such as Forbes magazine and other blue chip companies in terms of service, punctuality and delivery, Mumbai (Bombay), India
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  • Dabbawallahs (tiffinwallah) travel across Mumbai's using its extensive rail network as well as using their own bicycles delivering freshly prepared home cooked food to office workers throughout the city. This 125 year tradition, unique to the city employs 5000 tiffinwallahs delivering an average of 200.000 meals a day which are kept in the tin dabbas which are delivered by using both bicycle and the city's rail network. The dabbawallahs are distinctive by their impeccable white uniform which includes a Gandhi style cap and a service second to none which is the toast and the praise of enterprises such as Forbes magazine and other blue chip companies in terms of service, punctuality and delivery, Mumbai (Bombay), India
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  • Dabbawallahs (tiffinwallah) travel across Mumbai's using its extensive rail network as well as using their own bicycles delivering freshly prepared home cooked food to office workers throughout the city. This 125 year tradition, unique to the city employs 5000 tiffinwallahs delivering an average of 200.000 meals a day which are kept in the tin dabbas which are delivered by using both bicycle and the city's rail network. The dabbawallahs are distinctive by their impeccable white uniform which includes a Gandhi style cap and a service second to none which is the toast and the praise of enterprises such as Forbes magazine and other blue chip companies in terms of service, punctuality and delivery, Mumbai (Bombay), India
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  • Dabbawallahs (tiffinwallah) travel across Mumbai's using its extensive rail network as well as using their own bicycles delivering freshly prepared home cooked food to office workers throughout the city. This 125 year tradition, unique to the city employs 5000 tiffinwallahs delivering an average of 200.000 meals a day which are kept in the tin dabbas which are delivered by using both bicycle and the city's rail network. The dabbawallahs are distinctive by their impeccable white uniform which includes a Gandhi style cap and a service second to none which is the toast and the praise of enterprises such as Forbes magazine and other blue chip companies in terms of service, punctuality and delivery, Mumbai (Bombay), India
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  • A team of English tea-tasters employed by the tea company Lyons sample different blends for the PG Tips brand in the City of London, England UK. With variously-sourced teas from tea estate plantations, they smell, touch, sip, slurp then spit the hot drink out into a spittoon rather than swallow it many times repeatedly. Britons drink 35 million cups of PG Tips a day and world tea production is approximately 3.2 million tonnes a year. Kenya is the largest producer with Sri Lanka a close second. PG Tips is imported as single estate teas from around the world and blended in precise proportions set by the tea tasters to make blend 777, which can contain between 12 and 35 single estate teas at any one time depending on season.
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  • An airport worker employed by SABTCO guides an arriving Airbus onto its stand at Bahrain International Airport. The man carefully encourages the slow-moving flying machine using his illuminated sticks alerting the pilot in control of this commercial airliner to an exact stopping place after its taxiing from the runway. It is another hot day in this Gulf State, a key hub airport in the region, providing a gateway to the Northern Gulf. The airport is the major hub for Gulf Air which provides 52% of overall movements. It is also the half-way point between Western Europe and Asian destinations such as Hong Kong and Beijing. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903.
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  • A Bahrani baggage-handler employed by SABTCO pauses during his shift at Bahrain International airport. Having loaded luggage and cargo into the hold of an Egyptair Airbus, he sits looking hot and tired on the company’s conveyor belt awaiting last-minute additions to the manifest before its imminent departure for Cairo, across the Mediterranean. It is another hot day in this Gulf State, a key hub airport in the region, providing a gateway to the Northern Gulf. The airport is the home for Gulf Air which provides 52% of overall movements and is also the half-way point between Western Europe and Asian destinations such as Hong Kong and Beijing. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903
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  • Standing late at night in the doorway of a Soho nightclub in Old Compton Street, London England, a bouncer provides security for his employer. Otherwise known as doormen or door supervisers, these usually hardened men offer a deterrent for anyone causing trouble inside ot out of licensed bars and clubs such as this. Lit from overhead spotlights, he looks menacing and capable of street violence - enough to urge troublemakers to move on quick. reflected in the glass is Ed's Diner a well-known eaterie in this street. Soho is known as a rather seedy but vibrant area of London's West End and late-night social disorder fuelled by excessive alcohol is pretty much normal.
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  • A team of English tea-tasters employed by the tea company Lyons sample different blends for the PG Tips brand in the City of London, England UK. With variously-sourced teas from tea estate plantations, they smell, touch, sip, slurp then spit the hot drink out into a spitoon rather than swallow it many times repeatedly. Britons drink 35 million cups of PG Tips a day and world tea production is approximately 3.2 million tonnes a year. Kenya is the largest producer with Sri Lanka a close second. PG Tips is imported as single estate teas from around the world and blended in precise proportions set by the tea tasters to make blend 777, which can contain between 12 and 35 single estate teas at any one time depending on season.
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  • A 1992 portrait of a British Rail employee stands at the gate of a platform at Victoria station. Wearing the old uniform of that rail company. British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was the operator of most of the rail transport in Great Britain between 1948 and 1997. It was formed from the nationalisation of the "Big Four" British railway companies and lasted until the gradual privatisation of British Rail, in stages between 1994 and 1997. The British Rail "double arrow" logo is formed of two interlocked arrows showing the direction of travel on a double track railway and was nicknamed "the arrow of indecision". It is now employed as a generic symbol on street signs in Great Britain denoting railway stations.
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  • Detail of the Siemens Integrated Mail Processor (SIMP) operated by the Royal Mail at their Nine Elms sorting office Vauxhall, London. Developed in the mid-1990s it is the backbone of Royal Mail's system and Nine Elms is the biggest and most modern sorting office in Britain, employing 1,000 people and handling all post coming from/to south London: 1.1 million first-class items a day, 750,000 second class. Royal Mail handles some 82 million posted items a day. They have a statutory duty to provide a delivery service to 27 million addresses in the UK for letters and for parcels weighing up to 20kg. Six days a week they deliver daily to all addresses in the UK and provides a collection service from 115,000 Post Boxes, 16,000 Post Offices, businesses and organizations throughout the UK and distributed through 72 mail centres and 100 distribution centres.
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  • It is 10.15 in the morning and a mother and her daughter have crossed a road in Ruda Slaska, Poland, while an older lady has paused on the zebra crossing. It is a dark and gloomy day in this heavily polluted, industrial town in southern Poland. The local employer is the Huta Pokoj  SA steel mill that dominates the landscape, rising as a filthy tower that makes the air quality so poor that respiratory deceases are common, with soot present in the atmosphere for children to breathe. The environmental impact of 1990s post-Stalinist Polish heavy industry is evident. The day is damp, depressing and unhealthy with a truck's headlights on as pedestrians stand on the roadside, wait at the bus stop or cycle past on the pavement.
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  • Looking at International Arrivals of Heathrow airport's Terminal 5. Designed by architects Richard Rogers Partnership the controversial building opened with chaotic scenes on 27/3/08. British Airways passengers faced baggage disruption after a 6 year construction project that has seen the British public divided over the role of commercial aviation. At a cost of £4.3bn, the project was Britain's longest planning inquiry which lasted four years but finally employing a total of 60,000 workers. 30,000 square metres of glass in walls; 80,000 tonnes of steel were used - 17,000 in the roof alone; 5,000 doors, 800 toilets, 20,000 power sockets and 1,700 miles of cable; 60 new aircraft stands, including 14 for the Airbus A380; 13km of tunnels were bored for the state-of-the-art baggage handling to handle 12,000 bags per hour.
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  • Looking at practice baggage of Heathrow airport's Terminal 5. Designed by architects Richard Rogers Partnership the controversial building opened with chaotic scenes on 27/3/08. British Airways passengers faced baggage disruption after a 6 year construction project that has seen the British public divided over the role of commercial aviation. At a cost of £4.3bn, the project was Britain's longest planning inquiry which lasted four years but finally employing a total of 60,000 workers. 30,000 square metres of glass in walls; 80,000 tonnes of steel were used - 17,000 in the roof alone; 5,000 doors, 800 toilets, 20,000 power sockets and 1,700 miles of cable; 60 new aircraft stands, including 14 for the Airbus A380; 13km of tunnels were bored for the state-of-the-art baggage handling to handle 12,000 bags per hour.
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  • Looking up to the Fast Bag Drop facility Heathrow airport's Terminal 5. Designed by architects Richard Rogers Partnership the controversial building opened with chaotic scenes on 27/3/08. British Airways passengers faced baggage disruption after a 6 year construction project that has seen the British public divided over the role of commercial aviation. At a cost of £4.3bn, the project was Britain's longest planning inquiry which lasted four years but finally employing a total of 60,000 workers. 30,000 square metres of glass in walls; 80,000 tonnes of steel were used - 17,000 in the roof alone; 5,000 doors, 800 toilets, 20,000 power sockets and 1,700 miles of cable; 60 new aircraft stands, including 14 for the Airbus A380; 13km of tunnels were bored for the state-of-the-art baggage handling to handle 12,000 bags per hour.
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  • Looking up to the Nokia information screen and 40m high roof of Heathrow airport's Terminal 5. Designed by architects Richard Rogers Partnership the controversial building opened with chaotic scenes on 27/3/08. British Airways passengers faced baggage disruption after a 6 year construction project that has seen the British public divided over the role of commercial aviation. At a cost of £4.3bn, the project was Britain's longest planning inquiry which lasted four years but finally employing a total of 60,000 workers. 30,000 square metres of glass in walls; 80,000 tonnes of steel were used - 17,000 in the roof alone; 5,000 doors, 800 toilets, 20,000 power sockets and 1,700 miles of cable; 60 new aircraft stands, including 14 for the Airbus A380; 13km of tunnels were bored for the state-of-the-art baggage handling to handle 12,000 bags per hour.
    heathrow_terminal_five-04-17-03-2008...jpg
  • Looking up to the Nokia information screen and 40m high roof of Heathrow airport's Terminal 5. Designed by architects Richard Rogers Partnership the controversial building opened with chaotic scenes on 27/3/08. British Airways passengers faced baggage disruption after a 6 year construction project that has seen the British public divided over the role of commercial aviation. At a cost of £4.3bn, the project was Britain's longest planning inquiry which lasted four years but finally employing a total of 60,000 workers. 30,000 square metres of glass in walls; 80,000 tonnes of steel were used - 17,000 in the roof alone; 5,000 doors, 800 toilets, 20,000 power sockets and 1,700 miles of cable; 60 new aircraft stands, including 14 for the Airbus A380; 13km of tunnels were bored for the state-of-the-art baggage handling to handle 12,000 bags per hour.
    heathrow_terminal_five-01-17-03-2008...jpg
  • An odd job maintenance man bends awkwardly on a pair of stepladders to reach an internal light fitting in the cafeteria area of auditing company Ernst & Young's Norman Foster-designed 385,000 square foot European headquarters at More London, England. Dressed in blue shirt and dark trousers and with keys attached to his belt, the balancing man stretches into the hole left by the light to access wiring. To his right we also see an idyllic scene of wild meadow flowers, a carpet of red flora that goes into the distance though incongrously, the reflection of many cafe lights are seen in the sky of the meadow picture. Ernst & Young employs 114,000 people, in 700 locations across 140 countries around the world.
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  • It is the mid-afternoon break and striding confidently through a monochrome scene, a female employee of international auditing company Ernst & Young makes her way towards security barriers carrying her purse to exit E & Y's Norman Foster-designed 385,000 square foot European headquarters at More London, London England. A distracted male colleague approaches in the opposite direction, already having swiped his proximity card (using electronic key card technology to allow access through proof of authenticity) into the magnetic scanner while talking into his mobile phone. Both are dressed cassually, reflecting E & Y's policy of informal clothes for anything other than senior executives. Ernst & Young employs 114,000 people, in 700 locations across 140 countries around the world.
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  • A female office worker pauses to make a call on her mobile phone, on a wide walkway in Ernst & Young's Norman Foster-designed 385,000 square foot European headquarter at More London, London England. All other walkways above and below are empty and holding her head, the lady has sought privacy from her open-plan workstation and stands on her own. Architecturally, the term atrium comes from Latin: A large and light central hall or reception of a house where guests were greeted. The depth and height of all levels from near the top to almost the bottom give a sense of vertigo, a dizzying perspective. E & Y employs 114,000 people, in 700 locations across 140 countries around the world.
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  • In the heat and dust of a post-communist industrial mill, we see Bulgarian copper manufacturing workers made small against the scale of a bucket containing molten metal above them in the Pirdop copper smelting refinery. The refinery is the biggest in the Balkans and whole of South-Eastern Europe. It was privatized in 1997 for $80,000,000 and is now owned by the German Aurubis. It has a capacity of 160,000 tons and additional capacity of 180,000 tons worth €82,000,000 is being built. The factory also produces 830,000 tons of sulphuric acid and employs 1,420 workers. Pirdop is a town located in South-West Bulgaria of Sofia Province in the south-eastern part of the Zlatitsa.
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  • In the heat and dust of a post-communist industrial mill, we see a Bulgarian copper manufacturing process made small against the scale of the Pirdop copper smelting refinery. The refinery is the biggest in the Balkans and whole of South-Eastern Europe. It was privatized in 1997 for $80,000,000 and is now owned by the German Aurubis. It has a capacity of 160,000 tons and additional capacity of 180,000 tons worth €82,000,000 is being built. The factory also produces 830,000 tons of sulphuric acid and employs 1,420 workers. Pirdop is a town located in South-West Bulgaria of Sofia Province in the south-eastern part of the Zlatitsa.
    bulgarian_steel04-01-08-2001_1.jpg
  • In the heat and dust of a post-communist industrial mill, we see in the foreground two Bulgarian copper manufacturing workers wearing heat-proof suits and helmets and with a bucket containing molten metal behind them in the Pirdop copper smelting refinery. The refinery is the biggest in the Balkans and whole of South-Eastern Europe. It was privatized in 1997 for $80,000,000 and is now owned by the German Aurubis. It has a capacity of 160,000 tons and additional capacity of 180,000 tons worth €82,000,000 is being built. The factory also produces 830,000 tons of sulphuric acid and employs 1,420 workers. Pirdop is a town located in South-West Bulgaria of Sofia Province in the south-eastern part of the Zlatitsa.
    bulgarian_steel03-01-08-2001_1.jpg
  • In the heat and dust of a post-communist industrial mill, we see Bulgarian copper manufacturing workers made small against the scale of a bucket containing molten metal above them in the Pirdop copper smelting refinery. The refinery is the biggest in the Balkans and whole of South-Eastern Europe. It was privatized in 1997 for $80,000,000 and is now owned by the German Aurubis. It has a capacity of 160,000 tons and additional capacity of 180,000 tons worth €82,000,000 is being built. The factory also produces 830,000 tons of sulphuric acid and employs 1,420 workers. Pirdop is a town located in South-West Bulgaria of Sofia Province in the south-eastern part of the Zlatitsa.
    bulgarian_steel02-01-08-2001_1.jpg
  • In the heat, dust and sparks of a post-communist industrial mill, we see two Bulgarian copper manufacturing workers wearing heat-proof suits and helmets and tons of molten metals glowing in near-darkness at the Pirdop copper smelting refinery. The refinery is the biggest in the Balkans and whole of South-Eastern Europe. It was privatized in 1997 for $80,000,000 and is now owned by the German Aurubis. It has a capacity of 160,000 tons and additional capacity of 180,000 tons worth €82,000,000 is being built. The factory also produces 830,000 tons of sulphuric acid and employs 1,420 workers. Pirdop is a town located in South-West Bulgaria of Sofia Province in the south-eastern part of the Zlatitsa.
    bulgarian_steel01-01-08-2001_1.jpg
  • A Bahraini  baggage-handler employed by SABTCO pauses during his shift at Bahrain International airport. Having loaded luggage he is also about to put a cargo of fresh fruits on the conveyor belt and into the hold of an Egyptair Airbus. A colleague walks up the ramp towards the fuselage before the freight goes in before its imminent departure for Cairo, across the Mediterranean. It is another hot day in this Gulf State, a key hub airport in the region, providing a gateway to the Northern Gulf. The airport is the home for Gulf Air which provides 52% of overall movements and is also the half-way point between Western Europe and Asian destinations such as Hong Kong and Beijing. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first powered flight, 1903.
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  • University students looking for jobs at a fair in Hangzhou, China on 27 January 2010.  As China has rapidly expanded college enrollment in recent years, resulting in 6.1 million college graduates in 2009 compared with only 850,000 ten years ago, it is increasingly becoming difficult for graduates to find jobs, while starting average salary has actually dropped in the last few years.
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  • University students looking for jobs at a fair in Hangzhou, China on 27 January 2010.  As China has rapidly expanded college enrollment in recent years, resulting in 6.1 million college graduates in 2009 compared with only 850,000 ten years ago, it is increasingly becoming difficult for graduates to find jobs, while starting average salary has actually dropped in the last few years.
    QS100127Hangzhou023.jpg
  • University students looking for jobs at a fair in Hangzhou, China on 27 January 2010.  As China has rapidly expanded college enrollment in recent years, resulting in 6.1 million college graduates in 2009 compared with only 850,000 ten years ago, it is increasingly becoming difficult for graduates to find jobs, while starting average salary has actually dropped in the last few years.
    QS100127Hangzhou022.jpg
  • University students looking for jobs at a fair in Hangzhou, China on 27 January 2010.  As China has rapidly expanded college enrollment in recent years, resulting in 6.1 million college graduates in 2009 compared with only 850,000 ten years ago, it is increasingly becoming difficult for graduates to find jobs, while starting average salary has actually dropped in the last few years.
    QS100127Hangzhou020.jpg
  • University students looking for jobs at a fair in Hangzhou, China on 27 January 2010.  As China has rapidly expanded college enrollment in recent years, resulting in 6.1 million college graduates in 2009 compared with only 850,000 ten years ago, it is increasingly becoming difficult for graduates to find jobs, while starting average salary has actually dropped in the last few years.
    QS100127Hangzhou017.jpg
  • University students looking for jobs at a fair in Hangzhou, China on 27 January 2010.  As China has rapidly expanded college enrollment in recent years, resulting in 6.1 million college graduates in 2009 compared with only 850,000 ten years ago, it is increasingly becoming difficult for graduates to find jobs, while starting average salary has actually dropped in the last few years.
    QS100127Hangzhou015.jpg
  • University students looking for jobs at a fair in Hangzhou, China on 27 January 2010.  As China has rapidly expanded college enrollment in recent years, resulting in 6.1 million college graduates in 2009 compared with only 850,000 ten years ago, it is increasingly becoming difficult for graduates to find jobs, while starting average salary has actually dropped in the last few years.
    QS100127Hangzhou006.jpg
  • Job seekers attend an employment fair in Shanghai, China on 15 February, 2009.  Job seekers attend an employment fair in Shanghai, China on 15 February, 2009.  China's rapid expansion of college enrollment in the past decade has resulted in an over-supply of college educated labor force, with many new college graduates unable to find adequate paying jobs.
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  • Job seekers attend an employment fair in Shanghai, China on 15 February, 2009.  Job seekers attend an employment fair in Shanghai, China on 15 February, 2009.  China's rapid expansion of college enrollment in the past decade has resulted in an over-supply of college educated labor force, with many new college graduates unable to find adequate paying jobs.
    QS090215Shanghai026.jpg
  • Job seekers attend an employment fair in Shanghai, China on 15 February, 2009.  Job seekers attend an employment fair in Shanghai, China on 15 February, 2009.  China's rapid expansion of college enrollment in the past decade has resulted in an over-supply of college educated labor force, with many new college graduates unable to find adequate paying jobs.
    QS090215Shanghai019.jpg
  • Job seekers attend an employment fair in Shanghai, China on 15 February, 2009.  China's rapid expansion of college enrollment in the past decade has resulted in an over-supply of college educated labor force, with many new college graduates unable to find adequate paying jobs.
    QS090215Shanghai009.jpg
  • A man sits down on a 'Sit down’ sign located at the entrance of an arena in Manchester. The arena is hosting the 2006 Creative Partnerships Exciting Minds conference. The creative Partnerships aims to enhance the achievement, motivation, creative skills and employability of young people
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  • The number 20 appears above the front entrance of 20 Farringdon Road, on 20th November 2019, at Smithfield in the City of London, England.
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  • A Royal Mail postal worker leans into a post box to empty a batch of letters and parcels, on 20th November 2019, in the City of London, England.
    postman-01-20-11-2019.jpg
  • A Royal Mail postal worker leans into a post box to empty a batch of letters and parcels, on 20th November 2019, in the City of London, England.
    postman-04-20-11-2019.jpg
  • The number 20 appears above the front entrance of 20 Farringdon Road, on 20th November 2019, at Smithfield in the City of London, England.
    twenty_office -01-20-11-2019.jpg
  • A Royal Mail postal worker leans into a post box to empty a batch of letters and parcels, on 20th November 2019, in the City of London, England.
    postman-04-20-11-2019.jpg
  • A Royal Mail postal worker leans into a post box to empty a batch of letters and parcels, on 20th November 2019, in the City of London, England.
    postman-01-20-11-2019.jpg
  • A steward waits to greet passengers for an Orient Express service from platform 2 at Victoria station, on 8th November 2019, in London, England.
    orient_express-01-08-11-2019.jpg
  • A Film industry crew remove camera and sound equipment from a location among members of the public in Kingston town centre, after filming outside in the street, on 13th November 2019, in London, England.
    kingston_journey-17-13-11-2019.jpg
  • A workman fixes and adjusts a poster of a female model outside a high street fashion business The White Company, on 7th November 2019, in Kingston, London, England.
    kingston_journey-34-07-11-2019.jpg
  • A workman fixes and adjusts a poster of a female model outside a high street fashion business The White Company, on 7th November 2019, in Kingston, London, England.
    kingston_journey-35-07-11-2019.jpg
  • A wheelie bin empties trash into a city authority Mercedes Sprinter waste collection vehicle opposite the Renaissance Cloth Hall during morning rubbish duties on Rynek Glowny market square, on 23rd September 2019, in Krakow, Malopolska, Poland.
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  • Agricultural workers chop wood in front of a traditional Polish shepherds hut on the hillside, on 20th September 2019, Biala Woda, Jaworki, near Szczawnica, Malopolska, Poland.
    poland-179-20-09-2019.jpg
  • A mountain farmer walks past an agricultural hut on Polana Chocholowska a hiking route on Dolina Chocholowska in the Tatra National Park, on 17th September 2019, near Zakopane, Malopolska, Poland.
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  • Workmen repair the timbers of a traditional Polish mountain houses gable roof, on 16th September 2019, in Zakopane, Malopolska, Poland.
    poland-55-16-09-2019.jpg
  • A bystander watches the industrial project, a construction crane and workman appearing over airport baggage trolleys and blue hoarding at City Airport, on 10th October 2019, east London, England.
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  • A City businessman walks through Bank as environmental activists protest about Climate Change during the blockade outside the Bank of England in the heart of the capitals financial district, the City of London aka the Square Mile, on the seventh day of a two-week prolonged worldwide protest by members of Extinction Rebellion, on 14th October 2019, in London, England.
    extinction_rebellion -48-14-10-2019.jpg
  • City Police officers chat to environmental activists protest about Climate Change during the blockade outside the Bank of England in the heart of the capitals financial district, the City of London aka the Square Mile, on the seventh day of a two-week prolonged worldwide protest by members of Extinction Rebellion, on 14th October 2019, in London, England.
    extinction_rebellion -29-14-10-2019.jpg
  • Asian businessmen look at environmental activists protesting about Climate Change during the blockade outside the Bank of England in the heart of the capitals financial district, the City of London aka the Square Mile, on the seventh day of a two-week prolonged worldwide protest by members of Extinction Rebellion, on 14th October 2019, in London, England.
    extinction_rebellion -18-14-10-2019.jpg
  • City businessmen and financiers walk through Bank as environmental activists protest about Climate Change during the blockade outside the Bank of England in the heart of the capitals financial district, the City of London aka the Square Mile, on the seventh day of a two-week prolonged worldwide protest by members of Extinction Rebellion, on 14th October 2019, in London, England.
    extinction_rebellion -16-14-10-2019.jpg
  • Workmen prepare a rain-soaked red carpet awaiting crowds seeing the English National Operas opening night of Orpheus and Eurydice at the Coliseum on St. Martins Lane, on 1st October 2019, in London, England.
    ENO_carpet-08-01-10-2019.jpg
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