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  • A brave taxi cab driver drives gingerly along Denmark Hill in South London, The capital's infrastructure has largely come to a halt due to the large amounts of snowfall that has hit the capital - the most for 18 years. In addition to the lack of buses, trains were severely affected and roads like this have not been gritted by the local borough council, leaving motorists struggling to control their vehicles is the slippery conditions. The taxi's orange light is still illuminated indicating he is free for hire and a foot of snow is piled on his roof as the headlights pick out the driving blizzard conditions. Footprints are already in the drift near the pavement that is now hidden from the road.
    london_snow26-02-02_2009.jpg
  • Standing on the back of his utility vehicle, a man empties the contents of his dustbin onto a growing pile of rubbish in a recreation park in the otherwise  affluent Allerton area of Liverpool, Merseyside, England, during the Merseyside dustmans' strike of 1991. Adding to this mountain of refuse, the 'Scouse' man (someone from Liverpool) is seen surrounded by black binliners and items from domestic homes which have been allocated this public space to become a temporary landfill. The industrial action aginst the local authority - over pay and working conditions  - was a health problem for Liverpool's population during the summer of 1991 when streets filled with rubbish. Vermin like rats ran around and public city parks such as this were filled with every kind of refuse and garbage.
    RB_066-13-06-1991.jpg
  • Motorists drives gingerly along Denmark Hill in South London, after unusually heavy snow falls.
    london_snow19-02-02_2009.jpg
  • Motorists drives gingerly along Denmark Hill in South London, after unusually heavy snow falls.
    london_snow24-02-02_2009.jpg
  • A person pauses outside business premises with a blue exterior, to put on a blue plastic cagoule 'poncho' over their head in a Brixton street, on 15th March 2021, in London, England.
    blue_person01-15-03-2021.jpg
  • A lady carries a boxed pedestal office fan one of the hottest days of the year, during the 2018 heatwave, in the City of London the capital's financial district, on 24th July 2018, in London, England.
    heatwave_lady-02-24-07-2018.jpg
  • A construction worker's hand feels for the padlock of a locked site door on the Strand, on 5th March 2018, in London, England.
    construction_hand-06-05-03-2018.jpg
  • A construction worker's hand feels for the padlock of a locked site door on the Strand, on 5th March 2018, in London, England.
    construction_hand-01-05-03-2018.jpg
  • Edwardian period homes in the evening on a winter's afternoon in south London during the bad weather covering every part of the UK and known as the 'Beast from the East' because Siberian winds and very low temperatures have blown across western Europe from Russia, on 1st March 2018, in Lambeth, London, England.
    london_snow-58-01-03-2018.jpg
  • Edwardian period homes in blue evening light on a winter's afternoon in Ruskin Park south London during the bad weather covering every part of the UK and known as the 'Beast from the East' because Siberian winds and very low temperatures have blown across western Europe from Russia, on 1st March 2018, in Lambeth, London, England.
    london_snow-55-01-03-2018.jpg
  • Edwardian period homes in blue evening light on a winter's afternoon in Ruskin Park south London during the bad weather covering every part of the UK and known as the 'Beast from the East' because Siberian winds and very low temperatures have blown across western Europe from Russia, on 1st March 2018, in Lambeth, London, England.
    london_snow-54-01-03-2018.jpg
  • Edwardian period homes in blue evening light on a winter's afternoon in Ruskin Park south London during the bad weather covering every part of the UK and known as the 'Beast from the East' because Siberian winds and very low temperatures have blown across western Europe from Russia, on 1st March 2018, in Lambeth, London, England.
    london_snow-53-01-03-2018.jpg
  • Edwardian period homes in blue evening light on a winter's afternoon in Ruskin Park south London during the bad weather covering every part of the UK and known as the 'Beast from the East' because Siberian winds and very low temperatures have blown across western Europe from Russia, on 1st March 2018, in Lambeth, London, England.
    london_snow-52-01-03-2018.jpg
  • Edwardian period homes in blue evening light on a winter's afternoon in Ruskin Park south London during the bad weather covering every part of the UK and known as the 'Beast from the East' because Siberian winds and very low temperatures have blown across western Europe from Russia, on 1st March 2018, in Lambeth, London, England.
    london_snow-51-01-03-2018.jpg
  • Edwardian period homes in blue evening light on a winter's afternoon in Ruskin Park south London during the bad weather covering every part of the UK and known as the 'Beast from the East' because Siberian winds and very low temperatures have blown across western Europe from Russia, on 1st March 2018, in Lambeth, London, England.
    london_snow-46-01-03-2018.jpg
  • Edwardian period homes in blue evening light on a winter's afternoon in Ruskin Park south London during the bad weather covering every part of the UK and known as the 'Beast from the East' because Siberian winds and very low temperatures have blown across western Europe from Russia, on 1st March 2018, in Lambeth, London, England.
    london_snow-44-01-03-2018.jpg
  • Edwardian period homes in blue evening light on a winter's afternoon in Ruskin Park south London during the bad weather covering every part of the UK and known as the 'Beast from the East' because Siberian winds and very low temperatures have blown across western Europe from Russia, on 1st March 2018, in Lambeth, London, England.
    london_snow-43-01-03-2018.jpg
  • Edwardian period homes in blue evening light on a winter's afternoon in Ruskin Park south London during the bad weather covering every part of the UK and known as the 'Beast from the East' because Siberian winds and very low temperatures have blown across western Europe from Russia, on 1st March 2018, in Lambeth, London, England.
    london_snow-42-01-03-2018.jpg
  • Edwardian period homes in blue evening light on a winter's afternoon in Ruskin Park south London during the bad weather covering every part of the UK and known as the 'Beast from the East' because Siberian winds and very low temperatures have blown across western Europe from Russia, on 1st March 2018, in Lambeth, London, England.
    london_snow-38-01-03-2018.jpg
  • Edwardian period homes in blue evening light on a winter's afternoon in Ruskin Park south London during the bad weather covering every part of the UK and known as the 'Beast from the East' because Siberian winds and very low temperatures have blown across western Europe from Russia, on 1st March 2018, in Lambeth, London, England.
    london_snow-36-01-03-2018.jpg
  • A Lambeth council gritting lorry spreads grit over a minor residential road in south London during the bad weather covering every part of the UK and known as the 'Beast from the East' because Siberian winds and very low temperatures have blown across western Europe from Russia, on 1st March 2018, in Lambeth, London, England.
    london_snow-33-01-03-2018.jpg
  • A Lambeth council gritting lorry spreads grit over a minor road by Herne Hill station in south London during the bad weather covering every part of the UK and known as the 'Beast from the East' because Siberian winds and very low temperatures have blown across western Europe from Russia, on 1st March 2018, in Lambeth, London, England.
    london_snow-17-01-03-2018.jpg
  • A Lambeth council gritting lorry spreads grit over a minor road by Herne Hill station in south London during the bad weather covering every part of the UK and known as the 'Beast from the East' because Siberian winds and very low temperatures have blown across western Europe from Russia, on 1st March 2018, in Lambeth, London, England.
    london_snow-16-01-03-2018.jpg
  • A Lambeth council gritting lorry spreads grit between parked cars on a minor road in the south London borough, on 28th February 2018, in London, England.
    ruskin_snow-18-28-02-2018.jpg
  • A Lambeth council gritting lorry spreads grit between parked cars on a minor road in the south London borough, on 28th February 2018, in London, England.
    ruskin_snow-17-28-02-2018.jpg
  • Storm Georgina swept across parts of Britain and in central London, lunchtime office workers were caught out by torrential rain and high winds, on 24th January 2018, in London, England. Pedestrians resorted to leaping across deep puddles at the junction of New Oxford Street and Kingsway at Holborn, the result of overflowing drains. Eight in a sequence of eight photos.
    storm_georgina-58-24-01-2018.jpg
  • Storm Georgina swept across parts of Britain and in central London, lunchtime office workers were caught out by torrential rain and high winds, on 24th January 2018, in London, England. Pedestrians resorted to leaping across deep puddles at the junction of New Oxford Street and Kingsway at Holborn, the result of overflowing drains. Fourth in a sequence of eight photos.
    storm_georgina-54-24-01-2018.jpg
  • Storm Georgina swept across parts of Britain and in central London, lunchtime office workers were caught out by torrential rain and high winds, on 24th January 2018, in London, England. Pedestrians resorted to leaping across deep puddles at the junction of New Oxford Street and Kingsway at Holborn, the result of overflowing drains. Second in a sequence of eight photos.
    storm_georgina-52-24-01-2018.jpg
  • Storm Georgina swept across parts of Britain and in central London, lunchtime office workers were caught out by torrential rain and high winds, on 24th January 2018, in London, England. Pedestrians resorted to leaping across deep puddles at the junction of New Oxford Street and Kingsway at Holborn, the result of overflowing drains. First in a sequence of eight photos.
    storm_georgina-51-24-01-2018.jpg
  • Storm Georgina swept across parts of Britain and in central London, lunchtime office workers were caught out by torrential rain and high winds, on 24th January 2018, in London, England. Pedestrians resorted to leaping across deep puddles at the junction of New Oxford Street and Kingsway at Holborn, the result of overflowing drains.
    storm_georgina-50-24-01-2018.jpg
  • Storm Georgina swept across parts of Britain and in central London, lunchtime office workers were caught out by torrential rain and high winds, on 24th January 2018, in London, England. Pedestrians resorted to leaping across deep puddles at the junction of New Oxford Street and Kingsway at Holborn, the result of overflowing drains.
    storm_georgina-48-24-01-2018.jpg
  • Storm Georgina swept across parts of Britain and in central London, lunchtime office workers were caught out by torrential rain and high winds, on 24th January 2018, in London, England. Pedestrians resorted to leaping across deep puddles at the junction of New Oxford Street and Kingsway at Holborn, the result of overflowing drains.
    storm_georgina-42-24-01-2018.jpg
  • Storm Georgina swept across parts of Britain and in central London, lunchtime office workers were caught out by torrential rain and high winds, on 24th January 2018, in London, England. Pedestrians resorted to leaping across deep puddles at the junction of New Oxford Street and Kingsway at Holborn, the result of overflowing drains.
    storm_georgina-39-24-01-2018.jpg
  • Storm Georgina swept across parts of Britain and in central London, lunchtime office workers were caught out by torrential rain and high winds, on 24th January 2018, in London, England. Pedestrians resorted to leaping across deep puddles at the junction of New Oxford Street and Kingsway at Holborn, the result of overflowing drains. Second in a sequence of two photos.
    storm_georgina-38-24-01-2018.jpg
  • Storm Georgina swept across parts of Britain and in central London, lunchtime office workers were caught out by torrential rain and high winds, on 24th January 2018, in London, England. Pedestrians resorted to leaping across deep puddles at the junction of New Oxford Street and Kingsway at Holborn, the result of overflowing drains.
    storm_georgina-34-24-01-2018.jpg
  • Storm Georgina swept across parts of Britain and in central London, lunchtime office workers were caught out by torrential rain and high winds, on 24th January 2018, in London, England. Pedestrians resorted to leaping across deep puddles at the junction of New Oxford Street and Kingsway at Holborn, the result of overflowing drains.
    storm_georgina-31-24-01-2018.jpg
  • Storm Georgina swept across parts of Britain and in central London, lunchtime office workers were caught out by torrential rain and high winds, on 24th January 2018, in London, England. Pedestrians resorted to leaping across deep puddles at the junction of New Oxford Street and Kingsway at Holborn, the result of overflowing drains. Seventh in a sequence of seven photos.
    storm_georgina-29-24-01-2018.jpg
  • Storm Georgina swept across parts of Britain and in central London, lunchtime office workers were caught out by torrential rain and high winds, on 24th January 2018, in London, England. Pedestrians resorted to leaping across deep puddles at the junction of New Oxford Street and Kingsway at Holborn, the result of overflowing drains. Sixth in a sequence of seven photos.
    storm_georgina-28-24-01-2018.jpg
  • Storm Georgina swept across parts of Britain and in central London, lunchtime office workers were caught out by torrential rain and high winds, on 24th January 2018, in London, England. Pedestrians resorted to leaping across deep puddles at the junction of New Oxford Street and Kingsway at Holborn, the result of overflowing drains. Fourth in a sequence of seven photos.
    storm_georgina-27-24-01-2018.jpg
  • Storm Georgina swept across parts of Britain and in central London, lunchtime office workers were caught out by torrential rain and high winds, on 24th January 2018, in London, England. Pedestrians resorted to leaping across deep puddles at the junction of New Oxford Street and Kingsway at Holborn, the result of overflowing drains. First in a sequence of seven photos.
    storm_georgina-24-24-01-2018.jpg
  • Storm Georgina swept across parts of Britain and in central London, lunchtime office workers were caught out by torrential rain and high winds, on 24th January 2018, in London, England. Pedestrians resorted to leaping across deep puddles at the junction of New Oxford Street and Kingsway at Holborn, the result of overflowing drains. Third in a sequence of five photos
    storm_georgina-21-24-01-2018.jpg
  • Storm Georgina swept across parts of Britain and in central London, lunchtime office workers were caught out by torrential rain and high winds, on 24th January 2018, in London, England. Pedestrians resorted to leaping across deep puddles at the junction of New Oxford Street and Kingsway at Holborn, the result of overflowing drains. First in a sequence of five photos.
    storm_georgina-19-24-01-2018.jpg
  • Storm Georgina swept across parts of Britain and in central London, lunchtime office workers were caught out by torrential rain and high winds, on 24th January 2018, in London, England. Pedestrians resorted to leaping across deep puddles at the junction of New Oxford Street and Kingsway at Holborn, the result of overflowing drains.
    storm_georgina-18-24-01-2018.jpg
  • Storm Georgina swept across parts of Britain and in central London, lunchtime office workers were caught out by torrential rain and high winds, on 24th January 2018, in London, England. Pedestrians resorted to leaping across deep puddles at the junction of New Oxford Street and Kingsway at Holborn, the result of overflowing drains. Second in a sequence of two photos.
    storm_georgina-12-24-01-2018.jpg
  • Storm Georgina swept across parts of Britain and in central London, lunchtime office workers were caught out by torrential rain and high winds, on 24th January 2018, in London, England. Pedestrians resorted to leaping across deep puddles at the junction of New Oxford Street and Kingsway at Holborn, the result of overflowing drains. First in a sequence of two photos.
    storm_georgina-11-24-01-2018.jpg
  • Storm Georgina swept across parts of Britain and in central London, lunchtime office workers were caught out by torrential rain and high winds, on 24th January 2018, in London, England. Pedestrians resorted to leaping across deep puddles at the junction of New Oxford Street and Kingsway at Holborn, the result of overflowing drains.
    storm_georgina-07-24-01-2018.jpg
  • Storm Georgina swept across parts of Britain and in central London, lunchtime office workers were caught out by torrential rain and high winds, on 24th January 2018, in London, England. Pedestrians resorted to leaping across deep puddles at the junction of New Oxford Street and Kingsway at Holborn, the result of overflowing drains.
    storm_georgina-05-24-01-2018.jpg
  • Storm Georgina swept across parts of Britain and in central London, lunchtime office workers were caught out by torrential rain and high winds, on 24th January 2018, in London, England. Pedestrians resorted to leaping across deep puddles at the junction of New Oxford Street and Kingsway at Holborn, the result of overflowing drains.
    storm_georgina-06-24-01-2018.jpg
  • Storm Georgina swept across parts of Britain and in central London, lunchtime office workers were caught out by torrential rain and high winds, on 24th January 2018, in London, England. Pedestrians resorted to leaping across deep puddles at the junction of New Oxford Street and Kingsway at Holborn, the result of overflowing drains.
    storm_georgina-02-24-01-2018.jpg
  • Storm Georgina swept across parts of Britain and in central London, lunchtime office workers were caught out by torrential rain and high winds, on 24th January 2018, in London, England. Pedestrians resorted to leaping across deep puddles at the junction of New Oxford Street and Kingsway at Holborn, the result of overflowing drains.
    storm_georgina-03-24-01-2018.jpg
  • Early morning fog surrounds the London Eye on the Thames rver in London, England. Seen from a low angle, through the bare branches of winter trees, we see the pods of the most popular tourist attraction in Britain. The London Eye is a giant Ferris wheel on the South Bank of the River Thames in London, England. Also known as the Millennium Wheel, its official name was originally the British Airways London Eye, then the Merlin Entertainments London Eye, and since 20 January 2011, the EDF Energy London Eye following a three-year sponsorship deal
    london_fog01-23-12-2007_.jpg
  • As a departing train disappears round the corner at Bank underground station in the heart of London's financial district, a lone woman waits for the next service. This is the grim face of 90s tube travel is seen here in a wide landscape of rounded tunnel and the curve of the station platform on the Central Line. The Central line is a London Underground line, coloured red on the tube map. It is a deep-level "tube" line, running east-west across London, and, at 76 km (47 mi). Incorporated in 1891 it is today the longest Underground line and also the busiest with around 260 million passengers a year.
    underground_station03-19-02-1993.jpg
  • During the morning rush-hour at Bank underground station in the heart of London's financial district, the grim face of 90s tube travel is seen here in a wide landscape of rounded tunnel and the curve of the station platform. Londoners are sandwiched inside the nearest carriage. Waiting for the doors to close and the hot air to seal them inside the small space, men and women press against each other in a claustrophobic journey along the Central Line. The Central line is a London Underground line, coloured red on the tube map. It is a deep-level "tube" line, running east-west across London, and, at 76 km (47 mi). Incorporated in 1891 it is today the longest Underground line and also the busiest with around 260 million passengers a year.
    underground_station01-19-02-1993.jpg
  • Londoners sit and stand in a packed carriage on an overground rail service, stopped at a central London station. The windows are filthy with railway and city grime and the faces on passengers tell the story of a miserable experience travelling at rush-hour in the capital. The 90s carriage was an old style phased out in the late 90s, their construction proving unsafe and out-of-date with a modern transport infrastructure.
    train_misery01-19-03-1992.jpg
  • An aerial landscape view of a railway network whose tracks and rails converge on a station in central London. Three trains filled with commuters all make their way into this unseen railway hub. The route curls away into the distance, slicing its way through the capital. London Rail is a directorate of Transport for London (TFL), involved in the relationship with the National Rail network within London, UK. It manages non-tube rail systems in London. Railways started to change the landscape of London itself, followed by its suburbs in the mid to late 19th century when streets and neighbourhoods were cut in half by the new infrastructure.
    railway_trains-13-05-1993.jpg
  • The once busy Rialto Community Centre in Liverpool, England, is now a shell of a building, its windows smashed and caretaker's name painted over as if erased from those employed here to give the local population a sense of belonging. No-one is left here, the impoverished people having moved out for a better life elsewhere.
    liverpool_dereliction08-08-08-1991.jpg
  • A low, wide landscape of dereliction and poverty during the early 1990s in the city of Liverpool, England. The Catholic cathedral rises high in the distance over near-empty streets where bricks and refuse litter the pavements and empty buildings await destruction - the impoverished population having moved out for a better life elsewhere.
    liverpool_dereliction05-08-08-1991.jpg
  • Thames Water Utilities sewer cleaning team inspects the Fleet River's Victorian-built storm sewer of Blackfriars, beneath the streets of the City of London. Discarded fats from restaurants congeal in sewer networks leading to blocked pipework. Sewer men are shovel the deposits and bring them in vats to the surface. In the early 19th century the River Thames was practically an open sewer, with disastrous consequences for public health in London, including numerous cholera epidemics with the The Great Stink of 1858 a turning point. Intercepting sewers constructed between 1859 and 1865 were fed by 450 miles (720 km) of main sewers that in turn conveyed the contents of some 13,000 miles (21,000 km) of smaller local sewers using 318m bricks, 880,000 cubic yards of concrete and mortar and excavation of over 3.5m tonnes of earth.
    sewer_team01-19-06-1994.jpg
  • Illuminated road bollards and struggling traveller during wintry snows in south London.
    snow_bollards02-18-12-2010.jpg
  • A Closed Road sign on a hill in south London during wintry snows.
    road_closed04-18-12-2010.jpg
  • Derelict restaurant businesses left to decay on Toynbee Street, Tower Hamlets, East London.
    derelict_shops01-19-11-2010.jpg
  • Thames Water Utilities sewer cleaning team inspects the Fleet River's Victorian-built storm sewer of Blackfriars, beneath the streets of the City of London. Discarded fats from restaurants congeal in sewer networks leading to blocked pipework. Sewer men are shovel the deposits and bring them in vats to the surface. In the early 19th century the River Thames was practically an open sewer, with disastrous consequences for public health in London, including numerous cholera epidemics with the The Great Stink of 1858 a turning point. Intercepting sewers constructed between 1859 and 1865 were fed by 450 miles (720 km) of main sewers that in turn conveyed the contents of some 13,000 miles (21,000 km) of smaller local sewers using 318m bricks, 880,000 cubic yards of concrete and mortar and excavation of over 3.5m tonnes of earth.
    sewermen01-19-06-1994.jpg
  • In a rear alleyway between poor terraced housing in Liverpool, England, we see many black bin-bags are left against industrial brick walls awaiting collection during the Merseyside dustmans' strike of 1991. The cobbled alley of these 'back to back' houses are in a poor area, south of the city centre and home to deprived families. The industrial action against the local authority was a health problem for Liverpool during the summer of '91 when streets filled with rubbish. Vermin like rats ran around and public city parks filled with every kind of refuse and garbage. Few of these back-to-backs now exist after being cleared to allow construction of high-rise tower-blocks and flats.
    toxteth_alley-14-06-1991.jpg
  • A mother struggles to pull her young child over freshly fallen snow in a London street. With the child's tilted pushchair skating over compacted snow driven over many car tyres, the lady wears trainers that are themselves, ill-suited to walking though snow. Nearby vehicles are still covered in snow, having been left during this urban cold snap, something that Londoners are learning to cope with during times of economic council cuts when snow-clearing is not a spending priority.
    snow_parent-18-02-1991.jpg
  • Thames Water Utilities sewer cleaning team inspects the Fleet River's Victorian-built storm sewer of Blackfriars, beneath the streets of the City of London. Discarded fats from restaurants congeal in sewer networks leading to blocked pipework. Sewer men are shovel the deposits and bring them in vats to the surface. In the early 19th century the River Thames was practically an open sewer, with disastrous consequences for public health in London, including numerous cholera epidemics with the The Great Stink of 1858 a turning point. Intercepting sewers constructed between 1859 and 1865 were fed by 450 miles (720 km) of main sewers that in turn conveyed the contents of some 13,000 miles (21,000 km) of smaller local sewers using 318m bricks, 880,000 cubic yards of concrete and mortar and excavation of over 3.5m tonnes of earth.
    sewermen-19-06-1994.jpg
  • A detail of a computerized weather chart showing atmospheric pressure isobars across western Europe on 16/9/91 at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), Reading, UK. ECMWF  is an international organisation supported by 31 States, based in England, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Spain, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Austria, Portugal, Switzerland, Finland, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom. Its role is "to provide monthly and seasonal-to-interannual forecasts; to deliver real-time analyses and forecasts of atmospheric composition; to carry out climate monitoring through regular re-analyses of the Earth-system and to contribute towards the optimization of the Global Observing System." Source: http://www.ecmwf.int/.
    weather_chart02-16-09-1991.jpg
  • Lying in undergrowth, a camouflaged British infantry soldier is seen looking down the telescopic sight of the new British-made Long Range L115A3 sniper rifle on Salisbury Plain, Warminster, England. Sniping means concealment, observation and assassination, a strategy the British are using more against the Taliban in Afghanistan. Swiss Lapua .338 inch rounds (8.59mm) travel at sub-sonic speeds of 936 metres/sec, finding its target accurately up to 1,100 metres. The rifle weighs 6.8kg with telescopic image-intensified scopes to 25x life size vision, made by Schmidt & Bender. Front-mounted 'suppressor' minimises the signature normally compromising snipers' position. At £23,000 each, a £4 million contract has been awarded to Accuracy International, to provide the Army, Royal Marines and RAF. The British say this is the best sniper rifle in the world.
    sniper_rifle16-06-03-2008 .jpg
  • Lying in undergrowth, a camouflaged British infantry soldier is seen looking down the telescopic sight of the new British-made Long Range L115A3 sniper rifle on Salisbury Plain, Warminster, England. Sniping means concealment, observation and assassination, a strategy the British are using more against the Taliban in Afghanistan. Swiss Lapua .338 inch rounds (8.59mm) travel at sub-sonic speeds of 936 metres/sec, finding its target accurately up to 1,100 metres. The rifle weighs 6.8kg with telescopic image-intensified scopes to 25x life size vision, made by Schmidt & Bender. Front-mounted 'suppressor' minimises the signature normally compromising snipers' position. At £23,000 each, a £4 million contract has been awarded to Accuracy International, to provide the Army, Royal Marines and RAF. The British say this is the best sniper rifle in the world.
    sniper_rifle12-06-03-2008 .jpg
  • A camouflaged British infantry soldier is seen down the telescopic sight of the new British-made Long Range L115A3 sniper rifle on Salisbury Plain, Warminster, England. Sniping means concealment, observation and assassination, a strategy the British are using more against the Taliban in Afghanistan. Swiss Lapua .338 inch rounds (8.59mm) travel at sub-sonic speeds of 936 metres/sec, finding its target accurately up to 1,100 metres. The rifle weighs 6.8kg with telescopic image-intensified scopes to 25x life size vision, made by Schmidt & Bender. Front-mounted 'suppressor' minimises the signature normally compromising snipers' position. At £23,000 each, a £4 million contract has been awarded to Accuracy International, to provide the Army, Royal Marines and RAF. The British say this is the best sniper rifle in the world.
    sniper_rifle11-06-03-2008 .jpg
  • Looking down a firing range towards numbered targets, seen down the telescopic sight of the new British-made Long Range L115A3 sniper rifle on Salisbury Plain, Warminster, England. Sniping means concealment, observation and assassination, a strategy the British are using more against the Taliban in Afghanistan. Swiss Lapua .338 inch rounds (8.59mm) travel at sub-sonic speeds of 936 metres/sec, finding its target accurately up to 1,100 metres. The rifle weighs 6.8kg with telescopic image-intensified scopes to 25x life size vision, made by Schmidt & Bender. Front-mounted 'suppressor' minimises the signature normally compromising snipers' position. At £23,000 each, a £4 million contract has been awarded to Accuracy International, to provide the Army, Royal Marines and RAF. The British say this is the best sniper rifle in the world.
    sniper_rifle10-06-03-2008 .jpg
  • Lying on his stomach, a camouflaged British infantry soldier is seen looking down the telescopic sight of the new British-made Long Range L115A3 sniper rifle on Salisbury Plain, Warminster, England. Sniping means concealment, observation and assassination, a strategy the British are using more against the Taliban in Afghanistan. Swiss Lapua .338 inch rounds (8.59mm) travel at sub-sonic speeds of 936 metres/sec, finding its target accurately up to 1,100 metres. The rifle weighs 6.8kg with telescopic image-intensified scopes to 25x life size vision, made by Schmidt & Bender. Front-mounted 'suppressor' minimises the signature normally compromising snipers' position. At £23,000 each, a £4 million contract has been awarded to Accuracy International, to provide the Army, Royal Marines and RAF. The British say this is the best sniper rifle in the world.
    sniper_rifle08-06-03-2008 .jpg
  • Lying in undergrowth with a photographer shooting pictures, a camouflaged British infantry soldier is seen looking down the telescopic sight of the new British-made Long Range L115A3 sniper rifle on Salisbury Plain, Warminster, England. Sniping means concealment, observation and assassination, a strategy the British are using more against the Taliban in Afghanistan. Swiss Lapua .338 inch rounds (8.59mm) travel at sub-sonic speeds of 936 metres/sec, finding its target accurately up to 1,100 metres. The rifle weighs 6.8kg with telescopic image-intensified scopes to 25x life size vision, made by Schmidt & Bender. Front-mounted 'suppressor' minimises the signature normally compromising snipers' position. At £23,000 each, a £4 million contract has been awarded to Accuracy International, to provide the Army, Royal Marines and RAF.
    sniper_rifle03-06-03-2008 .jpg
  • Lying in undergrowth, a camouflaged British infantry soldier is seen looking down the telescopic sight of the new British-made Long Range L115A3 sniper rifle on Salisbury Plain, Warminster, England. Sniping means concealment, observation and assassination, a strategy the British are using more against the Taliban in Afghanistan. Swiss Lapua .338 inch rounds (8.59mm) travel at sub-sonic speeds of 936 metres/sec, finding its target accurately up to 1,100 metres. The rifle weighs 6.8kg with telescopic image-intensified scopes to 25x life size vision, made by Schmidt & Bender. Front-mounted 'suppressor' minimises the signature normally compromising snipers' position. At £23,000 each, a £4 million contract has been awarded to Accuracy International, to provide the Army, Royal Marines and RAF. The British say this is the best sniper rifle in the world.
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  • Surrounded by black bin-bags during the Merseyside dustmans' strike of 1991, two young "Scouse' girls lean against a brick wall in a rear alleyway between poor terraced housing in Liverpool, England. There is an older, taller white teenage girl with blonde hair dressed in a blue shell-suit and a shorter and younger friend of Asian-descent. Looking suspicious and amused at something across the cobbled alley of these 'back to back' houses in a poor area, South of the city centre, home to deprived families. The industrial action aginst the local authority was a health problem for Liverpool during the summer of '91 when streets filled with rubbish. Vermin like rats ran around and public city parks filled with every kind of refuse and garbage. Few of these back-to-backs exist after being cleared to allow construction of high-rise tower-blocks and flats.
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  • A boy plays snowballs at night during heavy snow showers in central London - a rare event for an inner-city. Snowflakes are falling in large amounts settling on this street in Herne Hill, South London. The lad is in his element by going outdoors at night as the showers are falling everywhere about him. He hides behind a parked car at the kerbside, crouching low to avoid detection by his elder sister. Relishing the hide and seek game they're playing and the prospect of landing the snow as a direct hit makes him look mischievous and excited.
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  • Pigeon pest controller, Sue Van Vynck releases Harriet, her Harris Hawk (Parabuteo unicinctus) to scare away the local pigeon population. The ancient sport of Falconry has become today's humane pest control of choice, particularly as costs falls. Once a pigeon population has been scared away, it requires only a token hawk presence to keep it away. Van Vynck Bird Control is a specialist company providing over 25 years, a range of environmental services dealing with nuisance bird management. They are pioneers of specialist techniques such as the use of predatory species (such as falconry) to displace and interrupt behavioural patterns as well as offering a complete range of physical deterrents. Here at Broadgate the nuisance was pigeons and Harriet leaves Sue's gloved hand to patrol the architecture of this 32 acres (129,499 m2) office and retail space.
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  • With a look of delight on her face, a four year-old girl stamps through fallen snow in a field near her home in Bielefeld, Germany. Wearing a vibrant red bobble hat and matching coat, she smiles towards the viewer with the pleasure of any child enjoying the excitement of fresh snow. Ski or sledge tracks can be seen at her feet but she is the only person in this empty landscape, as if she's walking on her own through the snowy hills. It is the winter of 1967 and the reds are very vibrant and dominant from the Kodachrome film used which also has a wonderful muted blue colour cast in the mid-tones giving the picture a chilly, wintry feel reminiscent of the classic days of early photography when shifts in color gave a faded and dated look.
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  • The message in graffiti lettering "Don't come here they attack you" has been written on a wall outside a house in the Toxteth area of Liverpool, Merseyside England. Flat 1A has a bright red-painted door and red bricks in an otherwise poverty-stricken district of this poor inner-city where crime and social deprivation has become the normal way of life for Scouses (someone from Liverpool). We see the red theme carried throughout this image of threat and ill-discipline where survival is clearly hard. These 'back to back' terraced houses have largely been demolished during Liverpool's regeneration during the 60s and 70s though some remain, accommodating unfortunate families on low-income.
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  • A Polish man leans over to put the finishing touches to two small snowmen that now occupy a park bench on Goose Green in East Dulwich, Southwark, South London, England. This otherwise green space has seen snow falls that have gripped this part of the capital with unsalted road surfaces and commuting nightmares. But this young man is having fun with his diminutive snowy creations who have been dressed up in his and a friend's glasses, their scarves and gloves and with locally-found twigs. The park is relatively quiet with only a hint of the chaos elsewhere but the time spent on pointless pursuits is one way of enjoying adverse weather, rather than the more serious business of getting to work, proving also that snow brings out the childish nature in us all.
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  • A still and snowbound street in Dulwich, South London, the morning after yet another overnight bad weather.
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  • As blue dawn light becomes another wintry day in south London, the glow of a car's brake lights shines through a covering of fresh snow. The driver has only swept the vehicle's back window with a rear wiper but with her foot on the brake pedal, she is about to set off on a drive to work this morning on roads that have controversially, not been gritted or salted by council highway workers. The surface is therefore still snowy in this residential area of Herne Hill, SE24, London and is a treacherous surface on which to maintain wheel and tyre (tire) traction and many accidents will result, including the heavy lorry (truck) which is about to climb this hill and which will soon prevent him from going much further.
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  • Bright colours and lines of a closed childrens' play park which lies in freshly-fallen snow.
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  • Abstract tyre (tire) tread tracks are left as abstract patterns in melting snow after bad weather in a supermarket car park.
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  • Rush-hour traffic is stopped at a road junction in Dulwich Village, South London, as pedestrians are helped across the snowy road by a Southwark council lollipop man.
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  • A glowing rear car indicator light shines through freshly-fallen snow at dawn in a South London street.
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  • A boy sledges downhill after unusually large amounts of snow fall in South London.
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  • Supermarket signs after unusually heavy snow fall in South London.
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  • A local dad sledges down a hill in South London. Trying to pick up speed he holds his legs out in front to avoid too much breaking as deep snow has blocked this quiet road in Herne Hill, SE24. Behind the father is his son who also comes downhill, past parked cars that are all covered in snow - abandoned by owners who would otherwise have driven to work. settling on this part of London's inner-city - an unusual event - and the  heaviest precipitation for 18 years.
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  • Infantry soldiers of the British Army demonstrate their newest L115A3 sniper rifle on firing ranges of the Support Weapon School, Salisbury Plain, Warminster.
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  • Infantry soldiers of the British Army demonstrate their newest L115A3 sniper rifle on firing ranges of the Support Weapon School, Salisbury Plain, Warminster.
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  • Infantry soldiers of the British Army demonstrate their newest L115A3 sniper rifle on firing ranges of the Support Weapon School, Salisbury Plain, Warminster.
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  • Infantry soldiers of the British Army demonstrate their newest L115A3 sniper rifle on firing ranges of the Support Weapon School, Salisbury Plain, Warminster.
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  • Infantry soldiers of the British Army demonstrate their newest L115A3 sniper rifle on firing ranges of the Support Weapon School, Salisbury Plain, Warminster.
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  • Infantry soldiers of the British Army demonstrate their newest L115A3 sniper rifle on firing ranges of the Support Weapon School, Salisbury Plain, Warminster.
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  • Infantry soldiers of the British Army demonstrate their newest L115A3 sniper rifle on firing ranges of the Support Weapon School, Salisbury Plain, Warminster.
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  • An employee of fish importers New England Seafoods, monitors the labelling of a supermarket order of fresh Maldives tuna
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  • Personalised insulated, anti-slip Dunlop Acifort Wellington boots are worn during a shift at importers New England Seafoods
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  • An employee of fish importers New England Seafoods, stacks a completed supermarket order of fresh Maldives tuna
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  • Portrait of an employee in apron  of fish product importers New England Seafoods, standing in the processing room
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