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It’s been more than fifteen years since Paul Simonon played bass with The Clash. But those years have not been wasted as the former punk pin-up has committed much of his time to establishing a ...
How We Met: Paul Simonon & Peter Ackroyd 'Having dinner with Peter is like having dinner with the British Library, if it had a moustache' ...
Old sketches of the north bank of the River Thames have been discovered to reveal the dramatic change to the London landscape over the past 200 years. Above: St Paul's Cathedral and the ...
The River Thames has some of the highest recorded levels of microplastics for any river in the world. Scientists have estimated that 94,000 microplastics per second flow down the river in places ...
At 215 miles long, the River Thames is the beating heart of London. Because of its historical importance to the city, there’s plenty to discover on the river’s banks.
They are trying to get to the River Kennet for winter but have been stuck on the Thames at Wallingford since 22 September because of the red boards.
The greatest rock’n’roll image of all time is a picture of Paul Simonon, according to a poll earlier this year. The photograph, of Simonon shattering his guitar on the New York Palladium stage ...
The “Paul” in question is Paul Simonon, bassist, vocalist, and visual auteur of The Clash. If the late Joe Strummer was the poetic heart of the band, Simonon was the conceptual engine, equal ...
Laura Reineke said the new initiative would protect every patch of the river A new guardianship initiative will aim to protect "every single inch" of the River Thames, according to a charity boss ...
Scott Keen, 48, from Morden in south London, steered his boat into a closed-off section of the river - only narrowly missing rowers who were taking part.
Paul Simonon's smashed up bass guitar and one of Joe Strummer's lyric notebooks feature as part of an exhibition on London Calling by The Clash.
PAUL Passmore, from Devizes retained his Thames Festival crown after three days of fishing on the Thames between Abingdon and Appleford.