Each week, Ben Hopkinson looks back at a serious, crazy, and happy news story from the past week.
Serious News
A new strike for London Underground staff has been scheduled for Thursday 7th and Tuesday 12th November.
In a dispute over pay, Aslef and The RMT has announced the cancellation of shifts for drivers, instructors, management as well as engineering – those in the latter for only 24 hours from 6pm on Friday 1st November.
TfL are disappointed with the action but still engaging with the unions.
Aslef is hoping for an agreement with London Underground, who have offered a pay rise of 3.8%, as well as a variable lump sum. However, the offer would leave staff on a lower salary compared to those who work on the Elizabeth Line and the Overground.
Crazy News
12 Guinness World Records were broken last Sunday during a Penny Farthing gathering in East London.
140 people beat the previous record of 131 in an upright stack – something they had to do for more than three minutes, and then cycled from the Herne Hill velodrome to the one on the site of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
Organisers classed the event as the “greatest gathering of Penny Farthing riders in London since the 1880s”.
Happy News
A series of Sherlock Holmes films which were released more than 100 years ago in 1922 have been restored and will be shown on the screen – something that hasn't been done since they were originally released.
Three of the 45 films were shown at the Alexandra Palace Theatre in North London on Wednesday evening to coincide with the BFI London Film Festival. Those were A Scandal in Bohemia, The Golden Pince-Nez and The Final Problem.
Bryony Dixon, the BFI's silent film curator has said that there has “been a demand for these for years”.
The first process was to wind the delicate film across a lightbox, where it is inspected frame by frame. They are then to be cleaned by hand and then digitised – the blur and flicker are reduced, all in a dark room.
Each part which needed to be fixed, be it caused by scratches or marks, are done using computer software from the next or previous frame. The frames are then tinted – blue for a night or flashback scene, and orange for a scene lit by electric light.
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