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Security for this weekend’s London Marathon is being reviewed by organizers and police after bombings near the finish of yesterday’s Boston Marathon killed three people and injured scores.
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Kim Bourke will travel almost halfway around the world from her home in Australia to attend a London wedding she hasn’t even been invited to. She’ll have a lot of company.
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London taxicab drivers blocked traffic to protest the Olympic Route Network designed to transport athletes and officials around the city after they were banned from using the lanes during the games.
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Pete Doherty is showing a newly sensitive side in acoustic songs he’s playing in Brixton.
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London’s black-cab drivers plan to block traffic on the day of next week’s Olympic opening ceremony if their taxis remain barred from highway lanes set aside for athletes, officials and media attending the Games.
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Prince William and Kate Middleton will be married by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams , at Westminster Abbey in London on April 29, the royal family announced, giving the first details of the event.
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The Turner Prize, the U.K.’s top visual-arts award, last night went to Elizabeth Price, whose films splice together footage of such unrelated topics as 1960s girl bands and a fire in a furniture stockroom.
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Half a million diners who have booked via Toptable.com have given their verdict on U.K. restaurants and the Top 100 is led by venues in Scotland.
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Sotheby’s said it is renewing its sponsorship of Tate Britain’s contemporary-art commissions for three years -- a program that in 2008 saw Martin Creed send sprinters through the London gallery.
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Jason Atherton , the chef who created Maze for Gordon Ramsay before quitting last week, plans to open a fine-dining restaurant in London later this year.
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