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Bounce: The Home of Ping Pong
I discovered Bounce, one afternoon as I had a hankering for some table tennis. Bounce is a great venue for those who like table tennis, but don’t take it too seriously. A nice touch was to get to play on their Olympic table, which was used in London’s Olympics.…
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New pound coin designed to combat counterfeiting.
The Royal Mint will begin replacing existing round £1 coins in 2017 in a bid to stamp out fraud. It estimates that 3% of £1 coins or nearly £46 million are fakes. The proposed £1 coin design is distinctly British, with a twelve-sided shape which evokes memories of the pre-decimalisation…
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Nirbhaya
From the writer and director Yael Farber On 16th December 2012, Jyoti Singh Pandey boarded a New Delhi bus with a male friend. She was beaten and gang raped by six men on the bus and died from her injuries thirteen days later. The incident generated national and international outrage.…
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The House of Holi Festival – The first day of spring has arrived!
To celebrate the first day of spring tomorrow kicks of the festival of Holi! So its time to head over to one of the best Indian restaurants that London has to offer, in search of colourful festivities. Cinnamon Kitchen’s House of Holi On the 17th March step into the…
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St Patrick’s Day – Haché Burgers fires up the smoking gun!
A couple of years ago I made the pilgrimage to the Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park’s Bar Boulud to try what was reputed to be the best burger in London. “Are these the best burgers in London?” we asked the waitress as an intended rhetorical question. “Oh no” she…
