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  • Penalty charge notice or PCN on the windscreen of a car on 30th March 2021 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. Penalty charge notices or fixed penalty notices or FPNs are parking tickets which were introduced in Britain in the 1950s to deal with minor parking offences. Originally used by police and traffic wardens, their use has extended to other public officials and authorities, as has the range of offences for which they can be used.
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  • Penalty charge notice or PCN on the windscreen of a car on 10th December 2020 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. Penalty charge notices or fixed penalty notices or FPNs are parking tickets which were introduced in Britain in the 1950s to deal with minor parking offences. Originally used by police and traffic wardens, their use has extended to other public officials and authorities, as has the range of offences for which they can be used.
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  • An Elmbridge Borough Council notice board containing instructions relating to the coronavirus is pictured on 16 October 2020 in Weybridge, United Kingdom. The Government has announced that the Borough of Elmbridge, which contains the towns of Weybridge, Esher, Cobham, Walton-on-Thames and Molesey, will move into Tier 2 of the Government’s new three-tier Local COVID Alert Level system for England with effect from 00.01 on Saturday 17th October, designating it an area of ‘High’ risk following a significant rise in the number of COVID-19 cases.
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  • A Penalty Charge notice parking fine placed under the windscreen wiper of a car parked illegally on the 9th of March 2021 in Folkestone, United Kingdom.
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  • As the Coronavirus pandemic spreads across the UK, businesses and entertainment venues not already closed with the threat of job losses, struggle to stay open with growing rumours of a lockdown and travel restrictions around the capital. As Londoners start to work from home, a detail of a notice of closure of the Prince of Wales Theatre where Book of Mormon was playing up until only days ago, on 19th March 2020, in London, England.
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  • Sprayed parking notice on the ground in a City of London side street. As a polite message asking taxi drivers not to park on this spot, the unknown person wants this location kept clear between certain hours - something one driver has chosen to ignore because it is a place for cabs to pick up fares beneath the newest of London's skyscrapers, known as the Walkie Talkie in the heart of the capital's financial district aka The Square Mile. The green lines and lettering looks prominent but seems to be ineffective as a means of asking for clear space.
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  • A coronavirus warning notice at the entrance to the South Portal site for the HS2 high-speed rail link is pictured on 14 September 2020 in West Hyde, United Kingdom.
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  • Detail of a Lambeth council notice attached to an abandoned bike in a south London residential street, on 13th February 2019, in London, England.
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  • A High Court injunction notice is displayed on fencing at the site of a ventilation shaft for the Chiltern Tunnel on the HS2 high-speed rail link on 18th July 2020 in Chalfont St Giles, United Kingdom. The Department for Transport approved the issuing of Notices to Proceed by HS2 Ltd to the four Main Works Civils Contractors MWCC working on the £106bn rail project in April 2020.
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  • Security notice sign detailing the laws protecting Downing Street, the Prime Minister's address in Westminster London. Section 128 of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 restricts those gaining access to this and other protected site. Barriers have been there since 1920 but in 1982 access was more fully restricted with railings and a demountable gate. This was replaced by the current black steel gates in 1989. The increase in security was again due to an increase in violence, particularly by the IRA but otherwise to street protests such as the Poll Tax riot in 1990.
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  • Warning of Wet Paint, taped to the pavement in a central London sidestreet. The contractor has printed the notice and stuck it to the ground using gaffer tape. The warning is meant to be seen and taken seriously so green is the theme of this sign - a paint brush with red paint in a circle of green: Two prime colours to attract the unwary.
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  • The notification of a tree removal notice and injunction against obstruction is attached to the trunk of an oak tree in Sydenham Hill Woods, the scene of a protest against the proposed felling of two 100+ year-old oak trees, threatened by Southwark Council because of their proximity to 'Pissarro's' footbridge whose renovation has been deemed necessary by the local authority, on 24th November 2020, in London, England. The Nunhead to Crystal Palace (High Level) railway once passed through the Wood and Impressionist artist Camille Pissarro (1830–1903) famously painted a railway landscape from the bridge in the 1870s. Sydenham Hill Wood forms part of the largest remaining tract of the old Great North Wood, a vast area of worked coppices and wooded commons that once stretched across south London. The habitat is home to more than 200 species of trees and plants as well as rare fungi, insects, birds and woodland mammals.
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  • The notification of a tree removal notice is attached to the trunk of an oak tree in Sydenham Hill Woods, the scene of a protest against the proposed felling of two 100+ year-old oak trees, threatened by Southwark Council because of their proximity to 'Pissarro's' footbridge whose renovation has been deemed necessary by the local authority, on 11th November 2020, in London, England. The Nunhead to Crystal Palace (High Level) railway once passed through the Wood and Impressionist artist  Camille Pissarro (1830–1903) famously painted a railway landscape from the bridge in the 1870s. Sydenham Hill Wood forms part of the largest remaining tract of the old Great North Wood, a vast area of worked coppices and wooded commons that once stretched across south London. The habitat is home to more than 200 species of trees and plants as well as rare fungi, insects, birds and woodland mammals.
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  • In the 24hrs that a further 38 died from Coronavirus, bringing the total to 41,736, a further easing of the UK’s Covid pandemic lockdown restrictions took place with many high street shops today being allowed to re-open after three months of forced closure. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, wanting to stimulate the economy, has urged people to shop with confidence and long queues formed outside the main brands. But unlike on public transport, face coverings are not compulsory so shop floors and shopping practices have had to be adapted to ensure customers’ social distances, amid fears of a second infection wave. A security guard stands alongside a notice for social distance rules outside Sports Direct on Oxford Street, on 15th June 2020, in London, England.
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  • With the UK death toll reaching 34,813, with a further 541 victims in the last 24hrs, the governments pandemic lockdown has eased to another stage and a social distance notice is displayed on the window of a closed restaurant that specialises in Din Sum in the City of London, the capitals financial district, on 1st June 2020, in London, England.
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  • A notice of power outage posted outside Somerset House in the Strand, central London. Partially open, business and access to this venue for the Arts is disrupted because of an electrical fire in a subterranean substation on nearby Kingsway which cause major disruption to local businesses and throughroutes for traffic as flames from ruptured gas pipes vented through pavement and road manholes. Loss of electrical power to local bars and businesses meant the closure of shops and evacuation of offices.
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  • Council and court officials arrive at Carnegie Library in Herne Hill, south London to serve an eviction notice while occupiers remain inside the premises on day 9 of its occupation, 8th April 2016. The angry local community in the south London borough have occupied their important resource for learning and social hub for the weekend. After a long campaign by locals, Lambeth have gone ahead and closed the librarys doors for the last time because they say, cuts to their budget mean millions must be saved.
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  • A notice indicates that a branch of pasta and pizza chain Prezzo is closed on the second day of England’s second coronavirus lockdown on 6 November 2020 in Windsor, United Kingdom. Only retailers selling "essential" goods and services are permitted to open to the public during the second lockdown and cafes, restaurants and pubs must remain closed unless they are providing food and drink for takeaway before 10pm, click-and-collect, drive-through or delivery.
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  • A notice regarding takeaway food is displayed outside a café on 3rd November 2020 in Windsor, United Kingdom. Struggling local businesses are preparing for England’s second national lockdown to combat the spread of the coronavirus, which is set to begin on 5th November and to last four weeks.
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  • A Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead notice regarding social distancing is pictured on 3rd November 2020 in Windsor, United Kingdom. Local businesses are preparing for England’s second national lockdown to combat the spread of the coronavirus, which is set to begin on 5th November and to last four weeks.
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  • An explanatory notice is displayed alongside a parking meter to be used in conjunction with the RingGo parking application on 31 October 2020 in London, United Kingdom. The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead switched its cashless phone parking solution from Parkmobile to RingGo with effect from 20th August 2020.
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  • A member of the public wearing a face covering to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus passes behind a COVID-19 social distancing notice on 4 October 2020 in Slough, United Kingdom. Slough Borough Council confirmed on 2nd October that its coronavirus infection rate is the highest in the south of England and Slough MP Tan Dhesi asked Health Secretary Matt Hancock in Parliament whether the local test centre in Montem Lane could be reverted to permit walk-in and drive-in visits without an appointment.
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  • A notice containing COVID-19 precautions is displayed in the window of a tailors’ shop on 26 September 2020 in Eton, United Kingdom. The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead is aware of a rise in local coronavirus infections, has a COVID-19 outbreak management plan in place to try to ensure that the numbers do not increase further and has requested access to more coronavirus testing sites with this in mind.
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  • A notice asking customers to wear a face covering to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus is displayed in the window of a tailors’ shop on 26 September 2020 in Eton, United Kingdom. The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead is aware of a rise in local coronavirus infections, has a COVID-19 outbreak management plan in place to try to ensure that the numbers do not increase further and has requested access to more coronavirus testing sites with this in mind.
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  • A notice indicates the presence of ash dieback at Calvert Jubilee Nature Reserve on 27 July 2020 in Calvert, United Kingdom. Ash dieback is a fungal disease spread by the wind which is expected to kill the majority of ash trees in the UK.
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  • A Thames Valley Police notice calling for people to respect and protect nature for future generations is seen at Calvert Jubilee Nature Reserve on 27 July 2020 in Calvert, United Kingdom. On 22nd July, the Berks, Bucks and Oxon Wildlife Trust BBOWT reported that it had been informed of HS2’s intention to take possession of part of Calvert Jubilee nature reserve, which is home to bittern, breeding tern and some of the UK’s rarest butterflies, on 28th July to undertake unspecified clearance works in connection with the high-speed rail link.
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  • A notice posted by environmental activists from Stop HS2 is seen at Calvert Jubilee Nature Reserve on 27 July 2020 in Calvert, United Kingdom. On 22nd July, the Berks, Bucks and Oxon Wildlife Trust BBOWT reported that it had been informed of HS2’s intention to take possession of part of Calvert Jubilee nature reserve, which is home to bittern, breeding tern and some of the UK’s rarest butterflies, on 28th July to undertake unspecified clearance works in connection with the high-speed rail link.
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  • A notice posted by environmental activists from Stop HS2 is seen at Calvert Jubilee Nature Reserve on 27 July 2020 in Calvert, United Kingdom. On 22nd July, the Berks, Bucks and Oxon Wildlife Trust BBOWT reported that it had been informed of HS2’s intention to take possession of part of Calvert Jubilee nature reserve, which is home to bittern, breeding tern and some of the UK’s rarest butterflies, on 28th July to undertake unspecified clearance works in connection with the high-speed rail link.
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  • A notice calls for support for bitterns outside a bird hide at Calvert Jubilee Nature Reserve on 27 July 2020 in Calvert, United Kingdom. On 22nd July, the Berks, Bucks and Oxon Wildlife Trust BBOWT reported that it had been informed of HS2’s intention to take possession of part of Calvert Jubilee nature reserve, which is home to bittern, breeding tern and some of the UK’s rarest butterflies, on 28th July to undertake unspecified clearance works in connection with the high-speed rail link.
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  • A High Court injunction notice is seen inside fencing around a compound in woodland recently established by HS2 workers to facilitate tree felling on 13th July 2020 in Denham, United Kingdom. The HS2 project is currently projected to cost around £106bn and will remain a net contributor to CO2 emissions during its projected 120-year lifetime.
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  • A legal penal notice at the entrance to Quadrillas drill site in New Preston Road, July 01 2017, Lancashire, United Kingdom. Any one found on Quadrillas land may be imprissoned or fined. Lancashire voted against permitting fracking but was over ruled by the conservative central Government. Fracking is a highly contested way of extracting gas, it is risky to extract and damaging to the environment and is banned in parts of Europe . Lancashire has in the past experienced earth quakes blamed on fracking.
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  • Hungary, Budapest, Keleti Station where refugees wait for trains to Austria and Germany. A notice on a pillar warns refugees going to Germany of the implications of the Dublin Regulation.
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  • Daily life continues but not as as normal with some rules and restrictions in Hackney on 21st March 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Notice on London Fields primary school, saying it is closed.
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  • A notice board on a cell wall. Toothpaste is often used to stick pictures to the wall. Beaufort House, a skill development unit for enhanced prisoners. Part of HMP/YOI Portland, a resettlement prison with a capacity for 530 prisoners.Dorset, United Kingdom.
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  • A prisoners cell notice board remains empty. Toothpaste is used to stick pictures up. HMP/YOI Portland, Dorset, United Kingdom.
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  • A notice and childrens handprint paintings on the wall of the visitors centre. HM Prison Styal is a Closed Category prison for female adults and young offenders, located in the village of Styal (near Wilmslow) in Cheshire, England. The prison is operated by Her Majesty's Prison Service. Styal is a Closed Category prison for sentenced and remanded female adults and young offenders. There are also facilities for mothers with babies up to age 18 months. The education provision at Styal is contracted out to The Manchester College. Courses offered include hairdressing, information technology, art and design, ESOL, catering, industrial cleaning, painting & decorating, and Open University support.
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  • Notices indicate the location of the Montem Lane COVID-19 walk-in testing centre run by Serco on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care on 4 October 2020 in Slough, United Kingdom. Slough Borough Council confirmed on 2nd October that its coronavirus infection rate is the highest in the south of England and Slough MP Tan Dhesi asked Health Secretary Matt Hancock in Parliament whether the Montem Lane test centre could be reverted to permit walk-in and drive-in visits without an appointment.
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  • Eat Out To Help Out notices are pictured on the second day of England’s second coronavirus lockdown on 6 November 2020 in Windsor, United Kingdom. Only retailers selling "essential" goods and services are permitted to open to the public during the second lockdown and cafes, restaurants and pubs must remain closed unless they are providing food and drink for takeaway before 10pm, click-and-collect, drive-through or delivery.
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  • Warning notices are displayed outside a gate to a construction site for the HS2 high-speed rail link on 29th July 2020 in Harefield, United Kingdom. Environmental activists based in the vicinity have been trying to disrupt HS2’s activities in the Colne Valley including the felling of many thousands of trees and drilling into the chalk aquifer.
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  • Notices posted by environmental activists from Stop HS2 are seen in a bird hide at Calvert Jubilee Nature Reserve on 27 July 2020 in Calvert, United Kingdom. On 22nd July, the Berks, Bucks and Oxon Wildlife Trust BBOWT reported that it had been informed of HS2’s intention to take possession of part of Calvert Jubilee nature reserve, which is home to bittern, breeding tern and some of the UK’s rarest butterflies, on 28th July to undertake unspecified clearance works in connection with the high-speed rail link.
    MK-20200727-HS2-Calvert-Jubilee-natu...jpg
  • Notices posted by environmental activists from Stop HS2 are seen in a bird hide at Calvert Jubilee Nature Reserve on 27 July 2020 in Calvert, United Kingdom. On 22nd July, the Berks, Bucks and Oxon Wildlife Trust BBOWT reported that it had been informed of HS2’s intention to take possession of part of Calvert Jubilee nature reserve, which is home to bittern, breeding tern and some of the UK’s rarest butterflies, on 28th July to undertake unspecified clearance works in connection with the high-speed rail link.
    MK-20200727-HS2-Calvert-Jubilee-natu...jpg
  • Eviction notices are fixed around the door to the home of Mostafa Aliverdipour, the last surviving resident of the Sweets Way housing estate, on 23rd September 2015 in London, United Kingdom. A group of housing activists calling for better social housing provision in London had occupied some of the properties on the 142-home estate in Whetstone, in some cases refurbishing properties intentionally destroyed by the legal owners following eviction of the original residents, in order to try to prevent or delay the eviction of Mr Aliverdipour and the planned demolition and redevelopment of the entire estate by Barnet Council and Annington Property Ltd.
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  • Works alongside Harvil Road for the HS2 high-speed rail link are pictured on 6th April 2021 in Harefield, United Kingdom. Large swathes of the Colne Valley have been cleared of trees and vegetation for HS2 works which will include the construction of a Colne Valley Viaduct across lakes and waterways.
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  • As the Coronavirus pandemic spreads across the UK, businesses and entertainment venues not already closed with the threat of job losses, struggle to stay open with growing rumours of a lockdown and travel restrictions around the capital. As Londoners start to work from home, a detail of closure at the Comedy Store where we see a list of recent comic acts, on 19th March 2020, in London, England.
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  • As the Coronavirus pandemic spreads across the UK, businesses and entertainment venues not already closed with the threat of job losses, struggle to stay open with growing rumours of a lockdown and travel restrictions around the capital. As Londoners start to work from home, a detail of closure at the Comedy Store where we see a list of recent comic acts, on 19th March 2020, in London, England.
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  • "I love Lambeth because .." post-it notes express an affection for south Londoners' home borough, left on a country show noticeboard. Pink heart-shaped stickers tell the viewer how much they appreciate life in this inner-city region of the capital where crime is a major negative aspect of living here. Many reasons are written by children whose optimism seems untainted.
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  • Police sign warns of thieves operating in the area.
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  • Two young girls dressed in traditional Spanish flamenco attire stop at the childrens' fairground during a lull in the celebrations for the April Feria, Seville. A pair of eyes painted on the front of the train ride engine looks across to one of the girls' similarly-designed dress. It is part of a lively event that Seville holds annually in the vast area on the far bank of the Guadalquivir River. Rows of temporary marquee tents, or casetas, host families, corporations and friends into the late hours during the April Fair which begins begins two weeks after the Semana Santa, or Easter Holy Week in the Andalusian capital.
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  • Filled with suits, jackets, trousers, and overcoats, the choices of mens' office worker clothes fill a shop front window belonging to Mr Byrite, a high-street clothes store chain in London England UK. Bargain sale prices for the items of clothing are all over the window display, offering discounts for £30, £40 or £60 and the mannequins used to wear these clothes either have bald-headed representations of men, or faceless white models wearing sun glasses. There is a sale of cheap items attracting young city men, far from traditional work attire, and more fashionable for the day.
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  • Seats on a London bus is blocked off to prevent passengers sitting within proximity of others on the day that UK Prime Minster, Boris Johnson announced in parliament of a major easing of Coronavirus pandemic restrictions on July 4th next week, including the re-opening of pubs, restaurants, hotels and hairdressers in England, on 23rd June 2020, in London, England. The three month two metre social distance will be also reduced to one metre plus but in the last 24hrs, a further 171 have died from Covid, bringing the UK total to 42,927.
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  • A sign advising passersby to maintain social distancing is pictured on 3rd November 2020 in Windsor, United Kingdom. Local businesses are preparing for England’s second national lockdown to combat the spread of the coronavirus, which is set to begin on 5th November and to last four weeks.
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  • Posters calling for support for local theatres are displayed outside the Theatre Royal Windsor on 27th August 2020 in Windsor, United Kingdom. A production of Hamlet starring Sir Ian McKellen in the title role is expected to reopen Theatre Royal Windsor at a date to be announced when permitted to do so by government advice regarding the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic.
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  • Greece . Idomeni transit camp for refugees travelling from Turkey to Northern Europe,on the border of Greece and Macedonia. Sign in English and Arabic saying 'Departure tent'.
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  • Closed shop sign during the coronavirus pandemic on the 4th May 2020 in London, United Kingdom.
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  • A Metropolitan Police traffic warden gives a ticket out on the Red Route in Battersea.
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  • A Lost cat poster stuck up on a lamp post in Surrey.
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  • CCTV Security Camera Sign warms that cameras for surveillance are in use in the area.
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  • A HS2 security worker guards an area of woodland alongside Small Dean Lane currently being cleared for the high-speed rail link on 20th February 2021 in Wendover, United Kingdom. Anti-HS2 activists based at the nearby Wendover Active Resistance Camp continue to oppose the felling of the woodland.
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  • Please stand behind the mat handwritten sign in a fish and chip shop during the Coronavirus pandemic on 14th May 2020 in Knott End on Sea, Lancashire, United Kingdom.
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  • On the last day of trading, surrounded by empty shelves and shop fittings, sheets of closing down posters are seen lying on the shop floor in the Camberwell branch of Woolworths department store in London. In its 100th year, the iconic high street chain of affordable goods has welcomed generations of shoppers since its first outlet opened in 1909 In a period of financial turmoil when recession followed the credit crunch, Woolworths went into administration in November 2008 with debts of £385m Pounds. Its 815 nationwide outlets were forced to close and its 27,000 workers laid off.
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  • On the last day of trading, surrounded by empty shelves and shop fittings, sheets of closing down posters are seen lying on the shop floor in the Camberwell branch of Woolworths department store in London. In its 100th year, the iconic high street chain of affordable goods has welcomed generations of shoppers since its first outlet opened in 1909. In a period of financial turmoil when recession followed the credit crunch, Woolworths went into administration in November 2008 with debts of £385m Pounds. Its 815 nationwide outlets were forced to close and its 27,000 workers laid off.
    woolworths02-05-01_2009_1_1.jpg
  • On the last day of trading, surrounded by empty shelves and shop fittings, sheets of closing down posters are seen lying on the shop floor in the Camberwell branch of Woolworths department store in London. In its 100th year, the iconic high street chain of affordable goods has welcomed generations of shoppers since its first outlet opened in 1909. In a period of financial turmoil when recession followed the credit crunch, Woolworths went into administration in November 2008 with debts of £385m Pounds. Its 815 nationwide outlets were forced to close and its 27,000 workers laid off.
    woolworths01-05-01_2009_1_1.jpg
  • The words 'Last Day' are painted in white emulsion on a window Camden North London, England. A Jesus figure, dolls  and various bric a brac are seen in the window behind the large lettering. Around a recession-bled Britain, high-street businesses have been going bust in their thousands. Britain has now endured eight recessions since the Second World War. No two recessions are alike, and that applies to the current slowdown also. It has been caused by a shock to the availability of credit, a massive build up of debt. The number of people out of work currently stands at almost two million. Given the rate at which the economy is deteriorating this could easily be above three million. From a continuing piece of work about windows and urban messages, the picture is from the project of closed business windows: 'Bust - the Art of Recession'.
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  • An all reduced sale of sports clothing supplier JJB.com stock, being sold by new buyer, Sports Direct shop in central London. JJB Sports has collapsed into administration, with arch-rival Sports Direct acquiring 20 stores. KPMG partners Brian Green, David Costley-Wood and Richard Fleming were appointed administrators before Sports Direct bought the JJB assets for £23.77m.
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  • Two ladies are seen gossiping about someone else in the caseta (marquee) during the Spring Feria in Seville, Spain. Holding on to their small aperitif glasses the two beautiful ladies are close together comparing notes and mischievously swapping opinions during the later afternoon before a whole evening's entertainment when they will party till dawn. They are both dressed in traditional red and white flamenco dresses with red and yellow scarves around their necks. It is a lively event that Seville holds annually in the vast fairground area on the far bank of the Guadalquivir River. Rows of temporary marquee casetas, host families, corporations and friends into the late hours during the April Fair which begins begins two weeks after the Semana Santa, or Easter Holy Week in the Andalusian capital.
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  • A male passenger is asleep with his mouth open, leaning his head on a bus window as it passes the background pillars of the Bank of England in the financial district City of London. On the exterior of the bus are the words: "We've got to get this city to work," an advertising slogan used by London Transport to seduce commuters from their cars and back on to public transport which is one of the most expensive world capitals on which to travel by bus, train or underground. This style of bus is a traditional design called a 'Routemaster' which has been in service on the capital's roads since 1954 and is nowadays only seen on heritage routes such as these destination: Victoria, Bond Street, Oxford Street, Holborn and Bank (the Bank of England). From any angle, the bus is easily recognisable as that classic British transport icon.  The City of London has a resident population of under 10,000 but a daily working population of 311,000. The City of London is a geographically-small City within Greater London, England. The City as it is known, is the historic core of London from which, along with Westminster, the modern conurbation grew. The City's boundaries have remained constant since the Middle Ages but  it is now only a tiny part of Greater London. The City of London is a major financial centre, often referred to as just the City or as the Square Mile, as it is approximately one square mile (2.6 km) in area. London Bridge's history stretches back to the first crossing over Roman Londinium, close to this site and subsequent wooden and stone bridges have helped modern London become a financial success.
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  • An activist against the proposed felling of two 100+ year-old oak trees, occupies the site under  'Pissarro's' footbridge whose renovation has been deemed necessary by the Southwark Council , on 17th November 2020, in London, England. The Nunhead to Crystal Palace (High Level) railway once passed through the Wood and Impressionist artist Camille Pissarro (1830–1903) famously painted a railway landscape from the bridge in the 1870s. Sydenham Hill Wood forms part of the largest remaining tract of the old Great North Wood, a vast area of worked coppices and wooded commons that once stretched across south London. The habitat is home to more than 200 species of trees and plants as well as rare fungi, insects, birds and woodland mammals.
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  • 'Last Day' is written on a closed taylors business in London, a victim of the UK recession. Reduced prices and services are listed on the glass with a poster urging customers to grab a bargain. Around a recession-bled Britain, high-street businesses have been going bust in their thousands. Britain has now endured eight recessions since the Second World War. No two recessions are alike, and that applies to the current slowdown also. It has been caused by a shock to the availability of credit, a massive build up of debt. The number of people out of work currently stands at almost two million. Given the rate at which the economy is deteriorating this could easily be above three million. From a continuing piece of work about windows and urban messages, the picture is from the project of closed business windows: 'Bust - the Art of Recession'.
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  • Please Shut the Gate sign lying on rain-soaked gravel at Kinlochspelve Church House by Thomas Telford on Isle of Mull, Scotland. Kinlochspelvie Church has only recently been available to let from Friday to Friday. Also available for Christmas and New Year. (http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/22381/details/mull+kinlochspelve+church/).
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  • During a fair at the famous Alexandra Palace in north London England, where the first BBC broadcasts were made in the mid-30s, the British Inventors Society (BIS) meet in a stand during a British Invention Show, an expo to help international entrepreneurs to sell their new ideas and concepts. BIS was formed in December 2003. The team that came together includes leading inventors and innovators, academics and entrepreneurs who share a common belief – that invention is the vital spark that drives the world’s technology and new orders of wealth creation. But there is no-one at home here, its stand remains unoccupied with vacated seats seen through the open doorway and beneath the plain sign. It is a comical and ironic scene, of unfulfilled ambition and failing innovation.
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  • The day after UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson imposed unprecedented restrictions of movement for millions of Britons who were told to stay at home unless their key jobs or journeys were essential. Told to take a single exercise session per day but with tennis facilities now closed by Lambeth council, courts are now un-used in Brockwell Park in Herne Hill SE24, on 24th March 2020.
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  • With the UKs Coronavirus pandemic lockdown easing with preparations going ahead for the opening of more public transport and services plus shops, another 151 have died from Covid-19 bringing the total in the last 24hrs to 41,279. A wider range of retailers are due to re-open their doors for non-essential purchases next Monday 15th June. Social distancing advice is displayed in a shop window on Oxford Street, on 11th June 2020, in London, England.
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  • With the UKs Coronavirus pandemic lockdown easing with preparations going ahead for the opening of more public transport and services plus shops, another 151 have died from Covid-19 bringing the total in the last 24hrs to 41,279. A wider range of retailers are due to re-open their doors for non-essential purchases next Monday 15th June. Social distancing advice is displayed next to style mannequins and models in the window of River Island on Oxford Street, on 11th June 2020, in London, England.
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  • With the UKs Coronavirus pandemic lockdown easing with preparations going ahead for the opening of more public transport and services plus shops, another 151 have died from Covid-19 bringing the total in the last 24hrs to 41,279. A wider range of retailers are due to re-open their doors for non-essential purchases next Monday 15th June. Social distancing advice is displayed in a shop window on Oxford Street, on 11th June 2020, in London, England.
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  • Seats on a London bus is blocked off to prevent passengers sitting within proximity of others on the day that UK Prime Minster, Boris Johnson announced in parliament of a major easing of Coronavirus pandemic restrictions on July 4th next week, including the re-opening of pubs, restaurants, hotels and hairdressers in England, on 23rd June 2020, in London, England. The three month two metre social distance will be also reduced to one metre plus but in the last 24hrs, a further 171 have died from Covid, bringing the UK total to 42,927.
    coronavirus_bus-03-23-06-2020.jpg
  • A construction workers hand feels for the padlock of a locked site door on the Strand, on 5th March 2018, in London, England.
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  • The Comedy Club in Oxendon Street remains closed during the Coronavirus pandemic, on 24th September, in London, England. Indoor entertainment venues like the Comedy Club continue to be financially challenged as new restrictions are being re-introduced by the government after a sudden climb in the Covid infection rate, a predicted 'second spike'.
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  • A mannequin of Santa Claus peers between Sale signs in garden retail centre in north Somerset, England. The inflated model is squeezed between the two red signs that tell shoppers to this rural shop to Enjoy the Good Life and that a Christmas sale is in force, the day after Boxing Day, the 27th December. Sale reductions and the lowering of prices are the lure for customers who need to beat the raising by the British Government of VAT (Value Added Tax) from 17.5 to 20% the following week - 4th January. Bargains will be offered at the old VAT rate making this the most popular of the holiday period to save during economic hardship.
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  • A children playing warning sign in a rural location in northern Italy. The cartoon qualities of the children smiling while playing with their ball is on the side of a quiet road in the lower Dolomites. The quiet hamlet of Steinegger is a dead end but kids are encouraged to run around in their peaceful corner of Italy, well away from heavy traffic and surrounded by vineyards.
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  • A shopper wears a face covering to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus on 26 September 2020 in Windsor, United Kingdom. The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead is aware of a rise in local coronavirus infections, has a COVID-19 outbreak management plan in place to try to ensure that the numbers do not increase further and has requested access to more coronavirus testing sites with this in mind.
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  • Shoppers wear face coverings to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus on 26 September 2020 in Windsor, United Kingdom. The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead is aware of a rise in local coronavirus infections, has a COVID-19 outbreak management plan in place to try to ensure that the numbers do not increase further and has requested access to more coronavirus testing sites with this in mind.
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  • An anti-HS2 sign is displayed outside a private residence on 30th July 2020 in Butler’s Cross, United Kingdom. There is widespread opposition to the controversial £106bn HS2 high-speed rail link project in the Chilterns, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty AONB.
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  • London Borough of Southwark. 21-23 Park Street, owned by the council and sold at Savills property auction for £2.96 million in spite of being occupied by community activists outraged at the sale of council housing.
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  • Daily life continues but not as as normal with some rules and restrictions in Hackney on 21st March 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Broadway market on a Saturday morning. Sign outside La Bouche cafe limiting number of customers.
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  • Daily life continues but not as as normal with some rules and restrictions in Hackney on 21st March 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Broadway market on a Saturday morning. Closed pharmacy, although sign says open.
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  • Daily life continues but not as as normal with some rules and restrictions in Hackney on 21st March 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Broadway market on a Saturday morning,  sign on El Ganso cafe, closed, in accordance with government order.
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  • Commemoration of the first anniversary of the devastating fire of 14th/15th June  2017 in Grenfell Tower, Lancaster West Estate, West London, United Kingdom when 72 people were killed. A reminder to people taking selfies in front of the burnt out tower.
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  • Closed shop sign during the coronavirus pandemic on the 4th May 2020 in London, United Kingdom.
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  • A Metropolitan Police traffic warden gives a ticket out on the Red Route in Battersea.
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  • Many penalty charge notices (PCNs) accumulated under the windscreen wiper of a badly-parked car in Brixton, Lambeth, south London. Attached to the front of the car we see a detail of the notices from three different occasions, filled out by a Lambeth parking enforcement attendant and accumulating three fines. Drivers and owners are advised not to ignore these notices as there are surcharges levied on the fine if not paid within a period - typically, after 14 days. The PCNs are sealed in polythene bags to avoiud water damageLambeth's fines range from £60 to £130 but in 2012, 43,723 of the 195,705 penalty charge notices that it issued – or 22% - were cancelled after appeals or wrongful issue.
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  • A detail of Polish church notices on a noticeboard outside the Basilica of the Holy Trinity and Dominican monastery, Krakow, on 22nd September 2019, in Krakow, Malopolska, Poland.
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  • A detail of Polish church notices on a noticeboard outside the Basilica of the Holy Trinity and Dominican monastery, Krakow, on 22nd September 2019, in Krakow, Malopolska, Poland.
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  • Local notices blackboard in Shanghai, China.
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  • Memorial flowers and notices to PC Keith Palmer who was killed during the Westminster terror attack in London, England, United Kingdom.
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  • Memorial flowers and notices to PC Keith Palmer who was killed during the Westminster terror attack in London, England, United Kingdom.
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  • Memorial flowers and notices to PC Keith Palmer who was killed during the Westminster terror attack in London, England, United Kingdom.
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  • Memorial flowers and notices to PC Keith Palmer who was killed during the Westminster terror attack in London, England, United Kingdom.
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  • Memorial flowers and notices to PC Keith Palmer who was killed during the Westminster terror attack in London, England, United Kingdom.
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  • A villager on a country walk with her Staffordshire Bull Terrier pauses to read the notices on a Parish Council community noticeboard, on 10th September 2018, in Lingen, Herefordshire, England UK.
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  • Memorial flowers and notices to PC Keith Palmer who was killed during the Westminster terror attack in London, England, United Kingdom.
    20170329_memorial flowers_007.jpg
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