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Posted Monday January 29, 2007, 5:45 am, Over one day old
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This week The Rolling Stones get the concert film treatment in Shine A Light and George Clooney goes screwball in Leatherheads. You can?t help but feel that however iconic his subjects, Scorsese should have better things to be doing with his time.
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This week, Bee Movie, Enchanted, We Own The Night, Youth Without Youth, Mr Magorium?s Wonder Emporium and It?s A Wonderful Life. Bradshaw can only serve up 2-stars but does have some praise: Also out this week is Mr Magorium?s Wonder Emporium starring a very creepy looking Dustin Hoffman.
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Four years, countless consultancy fees, umpteen broken promises and many millions of pounds later, Clissold Leisure Centre in Stoke Newington is finally re-opening this weekend. For those who've not followed the saga, here's the story in brief. Clissold Leisure Centre, 63 Clissold Road, N16 9EX.
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Instead of being confined to narrow categories, every post is now tagged with specific tags, things that help you find specific kinds of posts (say, all of our Christmas posts) or browse broader categories easily (say, all of our music posts).
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The Hangar Lane Gyratory has been given the dubious honour of being named Britain?s scariest road junction. In fact London claims 3 of the 4 top adrenalin-fuelled traffic experiences in the country, with Marble Arch and the Elephant and Castle coming 3rd and 4th on the list.
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Yes, you can help protect London's precious remaining circle of undeveloped land by purchasing bits of it through the Good Gifts catalogue, run by the Charities Advisory Trust. 12 square metres is apparently the size of your average living room.
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Naming babies after where they were conceived or where they born is slightly embarrassing. 32 year old catering manager Anita Baidoe has named her son John Lewis after going into labour in the branch of John Lewis in Brent Cross shopping centre.
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There's talk in the Flickr comments of spawning a new group dedicated to hand drawn maps of London and this makes us very happy and is maybe one of the best ideas we've seen this year. UPDATE: Good to her word Misty has now created a dedicated Flickr pool for hand drawn maps: Get in there!
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All Mr Pitts Family then in the Room, but none could perceive this strange Catt but only his Daughter of about 15 years of Age, and himself; and they say it was as bigg as any Mastiff Dog; but they could not perceive that it had any leggs!
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