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It was the subject of the world's first webcam, created by Quentin Stafford-Fraser and Paul Jardetzky in 1991. To save people working in the building the disappointment of finding the coffee machine empty after making the trip to the room, a camera was set up providing a live picture of the coffee pot to all desktop computers on the office network.
[26] [110] Based on a small sample in Putney High Street, McCahill and Norris extrapolated the number of surveillance cameras in Greater London to be around 500,000 and the total number of cameras in the UK to be around 4.2M. According to their estimate the UK has one camera for every 14 people.
London is an ancient name, attested in the first century AD, usually in the Latinised form Londinium. [36] Modern scientific analyses of the name must account for the origins of the different forms found in early sources: Latin (usually Londinium), Old English (usually Lunden), and Welsh (usually Llundein), with reference to the known developments over time of sounds in those different languages.
Watch again as London's New Year's Day Parade was held across the capital today (Wednesday). The start of the event was delayed by 30 minutes due to high winds forecast, and inflatable cartoon ...
Yellow warnings currently in place as blustering winds and flooding wreak havoc across UK Storm Debi – live: London weather warning extended as Met Office warns of lightning damage to buildings ...
sealife.co.uk/london The Sea Life London Aquarium is located on the ground floor of County Hall on the South Bank of the River Thames in central London , near the London Eye . It opened in March 1997 as the London Aquarium and hosts about one million visitors each year.
Hackney is a district in East London, England, forming around two-thirds of the area of the modern London Borough of Hackney, to which it gives its name.It is 4 miles (6.4 km) northeast of Charing Cross and includes part of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
The 2023 population of Greater London of just under 10 million made it Europe's third-most populous city, accounting for 13.4% of the United Kingdom's population and over 16% of England's population. The Greater London Built-up Area is the fourth-most populous in Europe, with about 9.8