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The Right Honourable the Lord Mayor of London is the legal title for the Mayor of (and head of) the City of London Corporation. The Lord Mayor of London is to be distinguished from the Mayor of London; the former is an officer only of the City of London, while the Mayor of London is the Mayor of Greater London and as such governs a much larger area. Within the City of London, the Lord Mayor has precedence over other individuals and has various special powers, rights and privileges.
In 2006 the Corporation of London changed its name to the City of London Corporation. At the same time the title Lord Mayor of the City of London came into use, partly to avoid confusion with the Mayor of London. However, the legal and commonly used title remains the Lord Mayor of London.
The Lord Mayor is elected each year at Michaelmas 'Common Hall', and takes office on the Friday before the second Saturday in November, at 'The Silent Ceremony'. On the day after taking office, the Lord Mayor's Show is held; the Lord Mayor, preceded by a procession, travels to the Royal Courts of Justice on the Strand, Westminster to swear allegiance to the Sovereign in the presence of the judges of the High Court.
The Mayor of London is an elected politician who, along with the London Assembly of 25 members, is accountable for the strategic government of Greater London. Conservative Boris Johnson has held the position since 4 May 2008. The position was previously held by Ken Livingstone from the creation of the role on 4 May 2000 until his succession by Johnson.
The role, created in 2000 after the London devolution referendum, was the first directly elected mayor in the United Kingdom. The Mayor of London is also referred to as the London Mayor, a form which helps to avoid confusion with the Lord Mayor of the City of London, the ancient and now mainly ceremonial role in the geographically smaller central region of the ancient City of London. The Mayor of London is the mayor of the entirety of Greater London (including the City).
The Mayor is elected by the supplementary vote method for a fixed term of four years, with elections taking place in May. As with most elected posts in the UK, there is a deposit, in this case of £10,000, returnable on the candidate's winning at least 5% of the first-choice votes cast.
London i/ˈlʌndən/ is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its founding by the Romans, who named it Londinium. London's ancient core, the City of London, largely retains its square-mile mediaeval boundaries. Since at least the 19th century, the name London has also referred to the metropolis developed around this core. The bulk of this conurbation forms the London region and the Greater London administrative area, governed by the elected Mayor of London and the London Assembly.
London is a leading global city, with strengths in the arts, commerce, education, entertainment, fashion, finance, healthcare, media, professional services, research and development, tourism and transport all contributing to its prominence. It is the world's leading financial centre alongside New York City and has the fifth-largest city GDP in the world (and the largest in Europe). London has been described as a world cultural capital. It was the world's most visited city during 2011 and London Heathrow is the world's busiest airport by number of international passengers. London's 43 universities form the largest concentration of higher education in Europe. In 2012 London will become the first city to host the modern Summer Olympic Games three times.
Actors: William Shakespeare (writer), Andrew Tiernan (actor), John Rackham (actor), Richard Hawley (actor), Janet May (actress), Caroline Burns Cooke (actress), Jason Wing (actor), Jamie Martin (actor), Maximilian Day (producer), Maximilian Day (writer), Maximilian Day (director), Maximilian Day (editor), Leo Carey (actor), Leo Carey (composer), Jamie Martin (producer),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Lane Smith (actor), Charles W. Fries (producer), Clu Gulager (actor), Adrienne Barbeau (actress), David Hasselhoff (actor), Lalo Schifrin (composer), Trudy Ramirez (miscellaneous crew), Rose Marie (actress), Ken Swofford (actor), E.W. Swackhamer (director), Thomas Fries (editor), Randolph Mantooth (actor), Stepfanie Kramer (actress), Joan Stevenson (miscellaneous crew), Lindsay Bloom (actress),
Plot: London Bridge, London, England, 1888. Jack the Ripper dies in the Thames river. London Bridge, Lake Havasu, Arizona, 1985. The last original stone used to rebuild the London Bridge is laid, all the city is happy. But since that moment some strange murders happen. The policeman Don Gregory has some suspects, but his ideas are quite strange, he thinks about a Jack the Ripper revived. Nobody believes him...
Keywords: 1880s, arizona, bridge, detective, ghost, jack-the-ripper, lake-havasu, murder, rampage, serial-killerActors: Leo McKern (actor), Derren Nesbitt (actor), Reginald Beckwith (actor), Desmond Llewelyn (actor), Michael Brennan (actor), Bernard Lee (actor), David Lodge (actor), Hugh Griffith (actor), Anthony Dawson (actor), Noel Howlett (actor), Vittorio De Sica (actor), Peter Butterworth (actor), Richard Johnson (actor), Basil Dignam (actor), Cecil Parker (actor),
Plot: Based on Daniel Defoe's 1722 novel of the famed English adventuress Moll Flanders. Moll is first engaged as a maid by an eighteenth-century English family chiefly composed of sex-starved males. She marries the imbecilic second son, who prefers booze to copulation. Too embarrassed to speak the truth of him, she demurely tells friends, "Modesty forbids me to reveal the secrets of the marriage bed." She then meets a rich banker, becomes maid-companion to a count and his lady, and finally weds the banker, but leaves him on their first night together. She then joins a group of thieves, falls in love Jemmy, and becomes their number one asset before she is sent to prison. After she is released, she finds Jemmy, and, in the end, everyone is on an America-bound boat except the banker, who fortuitously dies of a heart attack before he has had an opportunity to alter his will.
Keywords: 18th-century, adultery, adventuress, bad-guy, banker, based-on-novel, capital-punishment, character-name-in-title, class-differences, costume-filmActors: Esmond Knight (actor), Ralph Richardson (actor), Michael Ripper (actor), John Laurie (actor), Wallace Bosco (actor), Clive Morton (actor), Laurence Olivier (actor), Laurence Naismith (actor), Stanley Baker (actor), Cedric Hardwicke (actor), John Gielgud (actor), Michael Gough (actor), Timothy Bateson (actor), Patrick Troughton (actor), Bill Shine (actor),
Plot: Richard's military skills have helped to put his older brother Edward on the throne of England. But jealousy and resentment cause Richard to seek the crown for himself, and he conceives a lengthy and carefully calculated plan using deception, manipulation, and outright murder to achieve his goal. His plotting soon has tumultuous consequences, both for himself and for England.
Keywords: 15th-century, based-on-play, battle-for-throne, battlefield, breaking-the-fourth-wall, brother-brother-relationship, character-name-in-title, cold-blooded-murder, courtesan, dead-childrenActors: William Shakespeare (writer), Wilfrid Caithness (actor), Violet Farebrother (actress), Frank R. Benson (actor), Frank R. Benson (director), George Manship (actor), Constance Benson (actress), Murray Carrington (actor), H.O. Nicholson (actor), Moffat Johnston (actor), Alfred Brydone (actor), Eric Maxon (actor), L. Rupert (actor), J. Victor (actor), A. Wild (actor),
Plot: Although several others are ahead of him in the line of succession, Richard of Gloucester is determined to gain the throne. Through deceit, manipulation, and murder, he does become King Richard III of England. But once he becomes king, he soon finds out that the many enemies he has made will make it very difficult for him to remain on the throne for long.
Keywords: based-on-play, character-name-in-title, shakespeare's-richard-iii