Tim Stokes
@timstks
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BBC online journalist (of sorts) and occasional history obsessive
Joined April 2009
The London borough of Lewisham has 17 officers who patrol the streets hunting down people who fly-tip. https://t.co/qcWWk40CeW
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The London borough of Lewisham has 17 officers who patrol the streets hunting down people who fly-tip.
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Inside the century-old building standing above 400,000 gold bars
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As a new exhibition opens about the Bank of England, the BBC takes a rare look inside the building.
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'I bunked off school aged 14 to see Bob Marley - and became his photographer'
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An exhibition of Dennis Morris's music photos and his documentation of London life is currently on show.
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While rock legends filled Wembley for Live Aid, grassroots reggae artists brought thousands to Shoreditch Park for a charity show of their own https://t.co/Io3bXBGP6u
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Forty years ago Britain's reggae stars recorded a single and held a concert to raise money for Ethiopia.
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What is the weirdest thing in the universe? Boffins from Exhibition Road's world famous museums come together for a festival this weekend hoping to answer this eternal question. https://t.co/dmrCZyimtZ
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Peace may have been declared 80 years ago but reminders of the war remain across London. https://t.co/oH1LSqZdQY
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Peace may have been declared 80 years ago but reminders of the war remain across London.
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The bombed London church that was reborn in the USA
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St Mary Aldermanbury, twice destroyed while in England, can now be found in the American Midwest.
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Andy Vella's career in design has seen him work with various musicians and authors over the years, but it is his work with acclaimed goth rockers The Cure for which he is best known. https://t.co/UsE6Sj9sPb
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Her dad never spoke about his life in Berlin - now she knows why
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Sara Davidmann's Jewish father escaped Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport when he was 14.
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A giant cat and a dead bird: London's alternative animal trail
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The capital has an abundance of beasts on show linked to various events throughout the city's history.
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"We've already made a start on Christmas 2026" https://t.co/HSMhJkfRKK
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Gisela Graham has been creating decorations for 40 years, with her wares on sale around the world.
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'It's another London tradition that will go'
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Smithfield and Billingsgate markets are set to shut after centuries - what is their history?
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Up on the fifth floor of London's County Hall, an enormous space which for decades echoed with the flapping wings of roosting pigeons is bustling with people meeting over cups of coffee and tapping away at laptops. https://t.co/Ryovt21BR2
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Part of a building that was once the home of London's local politics is now dedicated to another cause.
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Alistair King is the 696th person to be appointed as the lord mayor of the City of London. https://t.co/SY195xEFYN
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Alastair King is the 696th person to be appointed as the lord mayor of the City of London.
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Bernadine Evaristo's award-winning 2013 novel Mr Loverman has been turned into an eight-part BBC drama. https://t.co/gnHsAYLJu3
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Bernadine Evaristo's award-winning 2013 novel has been turned into an eight-part BBC drama.
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The man who left Bowie with mismatched eyes
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Painter George Underwood, a lifelong friend of Bowie, features in a charity project inspired by the Starman.
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The woman who left Britain to parachute into Nazi-occupied Poland
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Elżbieta Zawacka had arrived in London in 1943 with special orders from a Polish military chief.
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'Why I'm photographing every London Chinese takeaway'
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Most nights British-born Chinese artist Harriet Armstrong travels across London photographing eateries.
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"I can just remember the excitement and the hope" (and the giant butter sculptures): https://t.co/HKSfOnyk9p
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Butter sculptures of British royalty and a working coalmine were on display but what was it all for?
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Edith Thompson: CCRC told to revisit hanged woman's pardon case
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