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Quitters’ Day? Good time to hold an anti-diet festival
This coming Sunday (January 19) is known as Quitters’ Day – the day in 2020 people are most likely to give…
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Rubber chickens bounce back into Fleet Street
Beano has continued its rubber chicken Christmas tradition with a brand new window display, unveiled at its Fleet Street office…
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Christmas is a great time for shops – or is it?
The term “use it or lose it” seems particularly appropriate when considering what is happening on our high streets and…
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Black Friday: Will you really use what you buy?
It’s Black Friday tomorrow and bargain hunters everywhere will be looking to snap up the latest cut-price deals in, well,…
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We nearly had a theme park in central London, but it ran out of power
What’s your feeling about theme parks? Are they like Marmite – you either love them or hate them? Me? I’m…
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Travel fears: What worries Brits the most
With the Christmas holidays imminent, many people are preparing for festive breaks and summer escapes to far flung lands. But,…
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Cars in movies: Which ones do you remember best?
Some movie extras – the car a character drives for instance – are so significant that they come to be synonymous with…
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The poppy: you know why, but do you know how?
Ask any adult why the poppy is used as a symbol of remembrance and most will have reasonable idea of…
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Which age group is most likely to get nicked for having sex in a car?
As a man of, let’s say, advancing years, I read a piece the other day that lifted my spirits. It…
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London’s most hipster neighbourhoods revealed
Which are London’s most hipster neighbourhoods? Well, first let’s establish what a hipster neightbourhood is. Wikipedia tells us: The hipster subculture…
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