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KATY PERRY LIKES LONDON BOYS….WELL, MOST OF THEM
“I like London boys,” Katy Perry tells me with a wink. Then she adds: “Except one.” The I Kissed A Girl singer is now over the breakup of her short-lived marriage…
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HOLLYWOOD REWRITES HISTORY WITH VAMPIRES AND WEREWOLVES
Ben Walker as Abraham Lincoln It seems that a lot of what we learned in history class wasn’t the full story.
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WOMEN? WHEN IT COMES TO CHAT, SHERLOCK HOLMES HASN’T A CLUE
As Sherlock Homes, Benedict Cumberbatch is a wizard at deduction. But when it comes to chatting up girls, TV’s super sleuth admits that he hasn’t a clue.
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THE BAND PLAYS ON…AND SO DO ENGLAND
It could be coincidence but the noisy England band, which was barred from the England-France European Championship game, was allowed back into the stadium for England-Sweden—-and played England to victory in…
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OLYMPIC OPENING CEREMONY TO FEATURE BRITISH COUNTRYSIDE
The Olympic Stadium will be transformed into the “British countryside” for the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Games on 27 July, director Danny Boyle has revealed.
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ENGLAND OFF TO A GOOD START
England supporters soak up the atmosphere– and the beer— in Donetsk where England got off to a creditable start in the European Championships with a 1-1 draw against highly-fancied France.
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A FROTHY TIME AT BARRELHOUSE 101
Heard about a new pub just opened in Ventura and as I was spending the weekend down the road in Oxnard and I’m always on the lookout for a new pub I…
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DULL AND BORING PAIR UP
Never before has such a frenzy of interest surrounded Dull and Boring. Boring, a town of 15,000 in Oregon, has voted in favour of “pairing” with Dull, a small Scottish village in…
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CONTROVERSIAL START TO EURO 2012: RACIAL CHANTS AND TONGUE TWISTERS AS A FRENCHMAN HELPS POLAND TO A DRAW
Poland and Greece got Euro 2012 got underway on Friday to a controversial start amid occasional racial chants, some poor refereeing, two sendings-off and questions over how French-born Ludovic Obraniak, who plays…
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REUNION AT THE CASTLE
What’s a trip to Edinburgh without a visit to the castle, particularly if it’s closed to the public for a private banquet?