• Eurostar Channel services restarting on Sunday as flooding is cleared (The Guardian) • Plans for direct trains from St Pancras to Germany and Switzerland (Yahoo! News) • Elizabeth line testing ways of banishing its “ghosts in the walls” (Ian Visits) • How London Was Rebuilt after the Great Fire of 1666: Video (City Beautiful) • Working from home could…
Decorative Disaster : Festive Failure? With Mts fbb’s stalwart help, but given under fierce protest (“I an never doing this again” is the annual complaint), the lavish display at fbb mansions, only rivalled by the lights at Blackpool, was hauled in place under the first floor fenestration. And it promptly started falling to bits! To save time and to…
Truck engine maker Cummins Inc. has agreed in principle to pay a $1.675 billion fine for installing devices on hundreds of thousands of engines to allow them to emit excess pollution, the largest-ever civil penalty for a Clean Air Act violation, the US Justice Department said on Friday. The Department said Cummins allegedly installed so-called “defeat devices” to bypass or disable…