John Betjeman
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The private passions that lurk behind our privet hedges: HEDGE BRITANNIA BY HUGH BARKER
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A natural wonder: The English hedgerow is full of flora and fauna A British hedgerow in May is one of the world’s natural wonders. These fragrant marvels of foaming blackthorn blossom and clots of creamy elderflowers tangled up with honeysuckle and wild Full Article at Daily Mail - UK
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Please activate cookies in order to turn autoplay off The Orbit tower does not deserve to be pilloried. It's everything that public art should be: wild, unexpected and not consensual Tower power ... Anish Kapoor and Cecil Balmond's ArcelorMittal Orbit sc Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
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In every library - sandwiched between Richard Branson's autobiography and a fat volume of John Betjeman - you'll find five books about business writing. The first is on Twitter for the small business owner. The next two books cover higher-end business pu Full Article at The Huffington Post
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Millions of young Britons dream of the moment when they will finally climb onto the property ladder and get the keys to their own front door. But how many of them imagine that their first home will be in Milton Keynes? A report, published today by the fi Full Article at Daily Mail - UK
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Forget the concrete cows and roundabouts, first-time buyers are most keen on Milton Keynes
Daily Mail - UK
Slough, Aldershot, Dartford, Basingstoke and Crawley are also popular with first-time buyersAverage young person in their 20s earns £20,000 - and average house price is £165,000 Millions of young Britons dream of the moment when they will finally climb o Full Article at Daily Mail - UK
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“Decadence demands a certain degree of innocence,” muses Dr. Maxted, a psychiatrist in J. G. Ballard’s new novel, Kingdom Come, after one of his patients opens fire with a handgun in a crowded English shopping mall. The shooting kills the father of Richa Full Article at The Millions
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Andrew Lloyd Webber is selling the first theatre he ever owned to help maintain his other venues, including the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, where he faces huge bills just to keep up its gold leaf decor. The composer/impresario said: “I am selling the Palac Full Article at This Is London
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Andrew Lloyd Webber has sold London's Palace Theatre, which is located on Shaftesbury Avenue and is currently home to Stage Entertainment's revival of Chichester Festival Theatre's Singin' in the Rain. In 2005 Andrew Lloyd Webber's Really Useful Theatres Full Article at Playbill
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Sir John Betjeman, CBE (pronounced /ˈbɛtʃəmən/; 28 August 1906 – 19 May 1984) was an English poet, writer and broadcaster who described himself in Who's Who as a "poet and hack". He was born to a middle-class family in Edwardian Hampstead. Although he claimed he failed his degree at Oxford University, his early ability in writing poetry and... Full Article At Wikipedia.org
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