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Did you know that it is still forbidden to run, carry an umbrella, or whistle in Burlington Arcade? That at the southeast corner of Trafalgar Square there's a tiny, working jail cell that looks like a fat lamppost that still has a direct phone link to Scotland Yard? That the entrance to... read more

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Scotland Yard is famous throughout the world but few people wonder why a police station in central London should have been given this curious name.

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