Each week, Ben Hopkinson looks back at a serious, crazy, and happy news story from the past week.
Serious News
The London Assembly is asking for the Mayor of London to do more for the Ask for Angela scheme and incorporate it within venue’s licensing conditions.
London's Night-Time Economy – a report found by a major company within the UK – found that many businesses are not implementing it.
There are two councils within the capital that already include the safety programme as a condition to sell alcohol and they are Westminster City Council and Camden Council
Mainly starting within the nightlife industry and since spreading to all kinds of businesses, Ask for Angela is a national campaign that helps people who feel unsafe or vulnerable to remove themselves from the situation without raising alarm. It may involve a member of staff calling a taxi, reunite with a friend or alerting security and/or the police
Crazy News
A woman who pretended to be a marshall for a 10k trail race in Glasgow sent the runners on a 2.5km detour instead.
Around 30 of the 115 participants fell for the trick, but are getting a discount on entering the next event organised by Acorn Trails.
Organiser Alex Osborne said: “We've never had issues before. Maybe the odd sign tossed into a hedge, but never a course alteration or pretending to be part of the event staff. We target spots where we think runners might get lost and where they appreciate the vocal support our amazing hi-vis heroes provide”.
Even through it may have only been as a humorous prank to play, it could have ended worse – all it needed was for someone to fall or become unwell and not get the help needed.
Happy News
A group of historic vehicle enthusiasts have marked the centenary of the Bristol to London coach service by recreating the journey.
Believing to have been the first long distance coach service within the UK, travellers paid £1 each way to board one of the four vintage coaches run by Greyhound Motors. Even though the coaches were only commissioned in the 1950s, they stopped frequently as to closely match the original duration of the journey as it would’ve been.
Martin Curtis, of the Bristol Omnibus Vehicle Collection says that the journey time has rapidly increased since the very first journey in February 1925: “Pneumatic tyres were introduced a year or so later and that allowed the speed of the service to increase and also road surfaces change”. He also added that the shift to coach journeys was a surprise: “The Great Western Railway was the only way by public transport to travel to London in those days and it was felt there was no demand for anything rather slower but cheaper. But in fact instantly the Greyhound service was a success, and more journeys were added”.
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