Outfoxing London's legion of urban foxes
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Mrs E Reynolds of Bexleyheath, southeast London, was truly in a state of shock. &quot;Last night I sat in my living room and heard a strange noise. On investigating, I discovered a fox in my kitchen,&quot; she wrote to her local newspaper, the News Shopper, the other week.
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Â· Chinese most exposed to displacement for games Â· 1,000 Londoners may have to move, says report
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A 16th Century painting of Venus featuring the Roman goddess of love wearing little but a smile has been deemed too risque for the eyes of London's tube travellers.
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Slow and cheap ... but deadly. Germany's V-1 kills over 6,000 Londoners during World War II.
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A project that tracks coyotes in real time can pinpoint which animals are at risk of becoming urban pests&#8212;and which households might be to blame.
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A protestor is taken away by police outside the House of Parliament in London Sept. 15, 2004. More than 10,000 British pro-hunting protestors held a major rally outside the house of Parliament on Wednesday as lawmakers debated on a ban on fox hunting.
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A lawnmower, a stuffed eagle, a blow-up doll and a human skull: just some of the more unusual items left on London&#039;s buses, Underground trains and taxis in the last few years.
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Travel: Tower Hamlets has made a surprise appearance on a list of the world's 100 most endangered places.
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FOR a city better known for its banks and hedge funds, London is doing remarkably well in the brave new world of Web 2.0.
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Once associated with Asia, pedal-driven rickshaws have sprung up in increasing numbers on London's streets over recent years, delighting many tourists but rousing anger in one powerful lobby group -- the city's famously opinionated taxi drivers.
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Urban sprawl is gobbling up open spaces in fast-growing metropolitan areas so quickly that it could spell extinction for nearly 1,200 species of plants and animals, environmental groups say.
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Decaying pig corpses deposited in secret locations around London are providing scientists with forensic information that may help them solve crimes.
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The early days of winter in the London theater scene have brought a wave of panto productions featuring balmy songs, bad puns and cross-dressers.
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If local legend is true, there are almost as many ghosts wandering the streets of the ancient English city of Exeter as there are people.
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Be warned. The Pink Sheet punks are on the prowl.
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London mayor Ken Livingstone came under fire on Friday over the cost of his efforts to rid Trafalgar Square of pigeons by using hawks.
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Virtue is supposed to be its own  reward. But Londoner Mike Butcher has found it makes him money  too.