London council will not light Hanukkah candles over fears of ‘inflaming’ tensions (www.standard.co.uk)
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London is building a new road tunnel under the Thames, in an area that already suffers from very poor air quality, in a city that widely supports reducing amounts of traffic. After much complaining from locals, a plan to accommodate cyclists in the (currently under construction) tunnel has been unveiled, and the idea is to use a...