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Bloomberg
29-05-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
Singapore Premier Warns Lawmakers on Perceptions of Impropriety
Singapore Prime Minister Lawrence Wong told ruling party lawmakers to be vigilant in their interactions to avoid perceptions of impropriety. In a letter laying out so-called Rules of Prudence for the People's Action Party's parliamentarians after the May 3 national election, Wong said they should separate their public political position from private, professional or business interests, and be wary of potential conflicts. He also told them to be 'shrewd in assessing the motives of people' who try to get close to them.
BBC News
13-02-2025
- General
- BBC News
Nantwich pub's history may date back to English Civil War battle
A landlord with a keen interest in history has claimed he has uncovered evidence his pub may have existed at the time a significant Snell said The Black Lion in Nantwich, Cheshire, featured on a map which indicated it was at least 40 years older than initially Snell said he was working on getting the dates corroborated with other sources, and he had also uncovered other records which suggested the pub might date back to 1605 or that were the case it would have been standing during the Battle of Nantwich. The skirmish between the Royalists and Parliamentarians gave the latter their first big victory of the English Civil Snell said the discovery stemmed from an image of the pub that had been taken by a was posted on social media, prompting somebody to get in touch with a map dated to date on the pub's door is 1664, which many had taken to be the year when it first Snell said he believed the date might instead refer to when the door was fitted or repaired, rather than referring to the whole building."It certainly seems as though it could stem back to 1624, which is 20 years before the great Battle of Nantwich," he said. He added there were also records detailing a former landlord, with relatives buried in the early 1600s, suggesting the pub might have been standing in had long thought his predecessors might have served soldiers who fought in the town's famous battle, he told BBC Radio Stoke."It's more than likely, anyway. Sitting around, looking around, you look at the old beams and suchlike – the wattle and daub on the wall as well.""It's nice to see every year when we have the battle re-enactment, all the guys come in in full regalia and you just think 'this is so fitting for all this, it really is'." Read more Cheshire stories from the BBC and follow BBC Stoke & Staffordshire on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram.
