A street in London where many newspapers have their offices. Thus, ‘Fleet Street’ means, the press.
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Fleet Street is a street in London, England named after the River Fleet. It was the home of the British press until the 1980s. Even though the last major British news office, Reuters, left in 2005, the street’s name continues to be used as a metonym for the British national press.
Fleet Street is now more associated with the Law and its courts and barristers’ chambers, many of which are in alleys off Fleet Street itself, almost all of the newspapers thereabouts having moved to Wapping and Canary Wharf.
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