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London Tours
One of the best cities to visit in Europe is definitly London. You will always find a reason to walk around the beautiful streets of the UK capital! The only think you have to consider is how much time you have to visit the most valuable places !
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Jimi Hendrix's London flat to become permanent museum
23 Brook Street – the rooms rented in the late 1960s by Jimi Hendrix, poignantly described by him as "the only home I ever had".
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Amazing new Pepsi ad in London is causing some strange sightings, literally.
Pepsi Max brings you the Unbelievable. Pepsi Max surprise commuters with an 'unbelievable' augmented reality experience at a bus shelter on New Oxford Street in London. Watch their reactions as unbelievable scenarios unfold before their very eyes; from a giant robot crashing through the street to a passer by being abducted by flying saucers.
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Stolen Smartphones 'black market' exposed
A black market of shops and traders willing to deal in stolen smartphones has been exposed by a BBC London undercover investigation. Intelligence was received that some shops across a swathe of east London were happy to buy phones from thieves.
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London's trail of buried diggers
Property experts estimate there could be up to 1,000 JCBs buried underground because they are cheaper to bury than lift to street level following basement extensions
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The bizarre secret of London’s buried diggers
After excavating your mega-basement in Holland Park, it’s cheaper and easier to leave the JCB entombed down there with the pool, personal cinema and staff quarters.
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'Homeless spikes' installed outside London flats
Metal spikes have been installed outside a block of luxury flats in London to deter homeless people from sleeping there. But the installation of the studs has provoked criticism from some after a picture was uploaded to Twitter, the social networking site.
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Taxi drivers to bring London to a standstill over row with Uber
Anti-Uber taxi drivers will go ahead with today’s planned protest, beginning in Trafalgar Square at 2pm, despite failing to meet with London Metropolitan Police. Timed to coincide with similar protests around Europe, the plan is to shut down parts of central London by parking their taxis in the street.
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Two teenage students die after falling from south London balcony 'while having sex'
Neighbours said a party was taking place inside the sixth-floor flat in Deptford when the 'tragic accident' involving two students occurred
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TV crew finds $8.5million hidden in a wooden box in London apartment while filming reality show about bailiffs
A television crew recording a documentary about bailiffs were stunned to find £5million stashed in a wooden box hidden in a flat. $8.5million, the equivalent of about £5million, was found by the crew stuffed in a wooden box hidden in the apartment in Silvertown, east London. The apartment is located in Wards Wharf - a collection of luxury new-builds in London's Docklands - and is close to London City Airport.
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The end of the hipster: how flat caps and beards stopped being so cool
Now that cocktails in jam jars have made it to EastEnders, what's next for those who would be 'alternative'?
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54 Amazing Facts About London That Will Blow Your Mind
" I wander thro' each charter'd street / Near where the charter'd Thames does flow. And mark in every face I meet / Marks of weakness, marks of woe."
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Race The Tube - Sprint
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London's new Tube trains come from the future
London is getting ready to welcome new Tube trains for the next 40 years. Last week, London unveiled the new cars to the public for the first time, and when the trains finally hit the tracks starting in the mid-2020s, they'll bring an appreciable list of improvements to riders.
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UK Market Creates A "Real Apple Store" To Celebrate Its 1,000 Year Anniversary
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London clubbers to be breathalysed before entering venues in crackdown on 'pre-loading'
Club goers face being breathalysed before being allowed entry into London venues as part of a crackdown on drink-related violence. Police and clubs are launching a pilot scheme to enable doormen to breath test revellers they suspect are intoxicated so they can bar them from entry. The limit for testing “positive” will be set at around twice the level for the drink driving limit.
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London in color just after WWII
Photograph by Chalmers Butterfield, circa 1949.
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London Approves Europe's First City-Spanning Bike Superhighway
Catering to some of the 170,000 cyclists that ride across London every day, this segregated bicycle lane will stretch from west to east, pass through the heart of the city and span 18 miles when completed, the longest of its kind on the continent. Backed by mayor Boris Johnson, a second route will also eventually span perpendicular to this first one, reaching south to north and crossing the first path in the middle of the city.
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Arthur Machen: the sounds from beyond the veil
Writings by Arthur Machen on London and its sounds
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Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London by Matthew Beaumont – review
‘The lost, the lonely, the sleepless, the homeless’ … a lively and learned study of those who roam the city’s streets at night, skulking in the margins
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