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A light-bulb moment

Controversy over replacements for 200-year-old gaslights in Westminster

(Town & Country, January 26) has quietened down, as the council launches a year-long consultation

Regal envelopes

Royal Mail has launched eight stamps to commemorate The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee—her accession was 70 years ago almost to the day (February 6, 1952)

Liverpool docks

Councillors have refused proposals to infill almost half of historic West Waterloo Dock basin to build three blocks of flats

Melodious drives

It’s 100 years since the first car radio was fitted—taking up a huge amount of passenger space in a Chevrolet. ‘Education and entertainment can be transported to wherever people congregate,’ wrote the New York Radio Times in 1922

Digging deeper

A lost Oxford college has been unearthed during construction for new Brasenose student flats; St Mary’s was founded in 1435 and remnants include limestone foundations and decorated floor tiles

Green cities

The National Trust will create 20 protected green corridors linking city centres to the countryside, starting with a three-mile route from Bath