Daily Archives: September 4, 2023

• If the bus networks are poor, then so are we (TheTimes) • Death of the front garden: Brits spending £27Bn turning front gardens into parking (DirectLine) • Holloways, England’s mysterious sunken roads, extend longer than thought (BBC) • Surprisingly beautiful Berlin U-Bahn stations (ExBerliner) • Helsinki building car-free tram ‘Crown Bridges’ (Built) • New study looks at horrible impact…

Always ready to give his readers a linguistic challenge, the above piece of Japanese orthography forms the core of our first Monday Variety item. It is, as you will all know, the name of a town in Japan. So here is the far less challenging headline in English text. Unusual Utsunomiya Undertaking And there it is, approx 100km north of…