Dr Giles worked at the Centre for Polar Observation & Modelling, Department of Earth Sciences, University College London. From her own website: "I am a NERC Postdoctoral Research Fellow and my research focuses on using satellites to better understand the physics of the ice covered polar oceans and how they are changing."
Aged 35, cycling to work on a Monday morning she was killed by a tipper truck at 8.25am. the driver was questioned by police at the scene but was not arrested.
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Dr Katharine Giles
Harry Webb was originally from Powys, Wales but had been living in Hackney. Aged 27, "he had a maths and philosophy degree from Bristol University, a masters in philosophy from Amsterdam universit...
17 year-old Olatunji was killed by a car while cycling across a pedestrian crossing. The driver, Barry Normah, aged 28, sped through a red light, drove off after the collision and then dumped the ...
Aged 62 Holt had worked as a porter at Mile End Hospital for 40 years. He had been commuting by bike the short journey of about a mile from his Stepney for just over a year in order to get fit. Th...
Born Lublin, Poland. 27-year-old cycle courier killed by collision with a HGV, a 32-tonne Scania tipper truck, whilst working for Anderson Young.In November 2004 Terence Mark Fallows, driver of th...
We thank Jamie Davis for finding this link to the British Pathe news film of the unveiling, where we note that the statue is veiled by a ...
JSSL Between 1952 and 1954, the Joint Services School for Linguists was located at Coulsdon Common Camp. Here linguists were trained for ...
London County Council Arnold Bennett, 1867 - 1931, novelist, lived here.
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