Big screen in St James' Park

Olympic handover

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August 24th 2008
I've hardly had a weekend to spare this summer, but I still managed to get my Olympic fix in August between my travels. The Beijing Games were an amazing spectacle and it was great viewing them from a British perspective - sometimes at home it feels as if Australians are the only athletes competing! (I concede Mattie Mitcham's diving was my highlight though!) To mark the handover to London f ... read more

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Great Britain, the dominant industrial and maritime power of the 19th century, played a leading role in developing parliamentary democracy and in advancing literature and science. At its zenith, the British Empire stretched over one-fourth of the ear... ... read more