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London (UK), Feb 8 (EFE), (Camera: Andy Rain).- The streets of London woke up covered by snow on Monday amid the cold wave that is hitting the United Kingdom with temperatures below zero. FOOTAGE OF LONDON STREETS ON MONDAY.
London wakes up to a thin dusting of snow, a rare occurence in March, as the UK begins a cold spell forecast to last several days. In Kinbrace, Scotland, temperatures plunged to minus 15.2 Celsius, making the night of 7-8 March the coldest in this month for the UK since 2010. IMAGES of dog-walkers, commuters and allotments on Clapham Common
London police say they have arrested a 22-year-old man after a seven-year-old girl was left fighting for her life following a shooting that took place as mourners left a church service. Gunshots rang out at the St Aloysius church in Euston, central London, on the afternoon of Saturday January 14 2023 as mourners were leaving a requiem mass for a mother and daughter. Police believe the shots were fired from a moving vehicle which then fled the scene. IMAGES of St Aloysius Church, Euston
London is covered with a thick blanket of snow following snowfall on Sunday night, as the UK is hit by heavy snow and freezing conditions, causing major travel disruption. IMAGES
“Who do you think you are? Stirling Moss?” This, so the story goes, is what a policeman asked the legendary British racing driver following a particularly ‘daring’ overtaking manoeuvre on the streets of London. “Yes sir, I am” was the honest reply.There’s a nod to this legendary tale – and a number of other aspects of Moss’s life and career – in “The Last Blast”, a new short film by Mercedes-Benz Classic. A police motorcycle outrider admonishes the over-enthusiastic driver of the very Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR made famous by Moss’s win in the 1955 Mille Miglia race. As the camera zooms in on the front wing of the bike, we see a sticker bearing the famous question.With this, part of a police-escorted drive across central London, ‘The Last Blast’ celebrates the life of Moss, who died on 12 April 2020 at the age of 90. Filming took place at the end of September 2021 in London – where he lived for more than 60 years – yet somewhere the famous Mercedes-Benz racing car, with its legendary Mille Miglia starting number of 722, has never been driven before.But while the Silver Arrow is the visible star of the show, there’s an invisible one, too: the late racing driver himself. In this very car, together with navigator Denis Jenkinson, he achieved a famous victory for Mercedes-Benz in the 1955 road race from Brescia to Rome and back. And it is in Moss’s honour that the company had the straight-eight engine howl for one last blast on a drive across central London before the car is retired, returning to its permanent home in the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart.
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