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  • It left him with an arse like Blackwall Tunnel, and nearly put him out of business.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Dungeekin 2009

  • It left him with an arse like Blackwall Tunnel, and nearly put him out of business.

    BNP Reduced to Begging For Cash Dungeekin 2009

  • Stanley Firmin, who was the Daily Telegraph's crime correspondent for many years, recalled in his 1950 memoirs, Crime Man, that a colleague, bored with the lack of breaking news on a murder near London's Blackwall Tunnel, cut his own finger, soaked a handkerchief in the blood and dumped it near the murder scene.

    Hugh Muir's diary 2011

  • Identified pinch points include the approach to the Blackwall tunnel in both directions, the A13 and other roads around major venues.

    Olympics opening weekend could bring 'perfect storm' for road users 2012

  • In support, Trembling Bells come out of the Scottish improv scene but tap into something unique, via the vocals of the classically trained Lavinia Blackwall.

    This week's new live music 2011

  • The 22 anticipated travel hotspots include King's Cross and Victoria plus other stations where measures to combat overcrowding are already needed every day, plus the Embankment and the southern approach to the Blackwall Tunnel.

    London's transport system ready for 'extreme' demands of 2012 Olympics 2011

  • A benefit-scrounging layabout fishwife with a mouth on her like the Blackwall Tunnel and Max Clifford on speed-dial?

    Policeman killed - NO STORY. Woman slapped - BIG STORY. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

  • Although she can ape Sandy Denny on songs like the cock-eyed sea shanty "Adieu, England", Blackwall is a classically trained soprano whose field is medieval and early music.

    Trembling Bells: Abandoned Love 2010

  • "Oh, you were just a mortal caught between my teeth/Parasite by any other name," counters Blackwall, before the chorus kicks in like some great lost Dylan outtake, and Mike Hastings's guitar solo makes like a drunk hornet.

    Trembling Bells: Abandoned Love 2010

  • Blackwall has a stunningly versatile voice, moving from classically trained purity to a stentorian Grace Slick holler at will.

    Bonnie 'Prince' Billy and the Cairo Gang; Trembling Bells 2010

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