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The ghost of Mark Smeaton looms large in Shardlake, the Tudor murder-mystery drama now streaming on Disney+. Who was Smeaton, and what does he have to do with the execution of Anne Boleyn? Historian Lauren Mackay explains
The populist mayor of Tower Hamlets, in London’s East End, was barred from office following a scandal. Now re-elected and energised by Gaza, is his party coming for Keir Starmer?
Until very recently, the London Stone was set into a shop wall in Cannon Street, nearly opposite the entrance to the railway station, but a few weeks ago it was removed and on 13 May this year [2016]