End of an iconic EYESORE: Bulldozers trample south London’s Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre

An iconic south London shopping centre built in 1965 on a bomb-damaged 1890s estate is being torn down to pave the way for a £1billion town centre regeneration. It was initially hoped that the three-storey Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre in Southwark, which was named after a former 18th century tavern in the area, would become a … Read more

End of an iconic EYESORE: Bulldozers trample south London’s Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre

An iconic south London shopping centre built in 1965 on a bomb-damaged 1890s estate is being torn down to pave the way for a £1billion town centre regeneration. It was initially hoped that the three-storey Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre in Southwark would become a commercial hub for south London, with its 115 shops taken on mostly … Read more

Bulldozers crush camp at CHOP, Seattle’s cop-free zone

The clean up operation began at Seattle’s Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP) zone on Wednesday after police in the city reclaimed their precinct following the mayor’s early morning executive order to vacate the area. Bulldozers moved in and crushed the camp where protesters occupied several blocks around a park and the Seattle Police Department’s East Precinct. Officers … Read more

Bulldozers crush camp at CHOP, Seattle’s cop-free zone

The clean up operation began at Seattle’s Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP) zone on Wednesday after police in the city reclaimed their precinct following the mayor’s early morning executive order to vacate the area. Bulldozers moved in and crushed the camp where protesters occupied several blocks around a park and the Seattle Police Department’s East Precinct. Officers … Read more

Protesters from Seattle’s CHOP confront construction workers and lie down in front of bulldozers

Protesters in Seattle’s Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP) zone confronted construction workers as they attempted to remove roadblocks on Friday morning. Employees from the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) arrived around 6.00am with trucks and heavy machinery to haul away the concrete and wooden barriers.   Video taken by Converge Media showed Sam Zimbabwe, head of … Read more

Protesters from Seattle’s CHOP confront construction workers and lie down in front of bulldozers

Protesters in Seattle’s Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP) zone confronted construction workers as they attempted to remove roadblocks on Friday morning. Employees from the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) arrived around 6.00am with trucks and heavy machinery to haul away the concrete and wooden barriers.   Video taken by Converge Media showed Sam Zimbabwe, head of … Read more

China brings bulldozers in to Himalayan site of clash with India

China has sent bulldozers to divert the course of a river near the disputed border where Chinese and Indian soldiers fought in a deadly clash at 14,000 feet on Monday, satellite images suggest.   The images appear to show China deploying new machinery and damming a river in the Himalayan mountainside where tensions boiled over into the … Read more