Located in central London, next to the beautiful Regents Park, within close proximity to Oxford Circus and Camden Town. It is in the prestigious Regents Park area, has excellent transport links, through buses, tubes and trains, including Euston and Kings Cross St Pancras train station.

After a recent refurbishment, guests can now have a more pleasant and unique experience when staying in London. This 4-star deluxe hotel has 581 rooms, 2 restaurants and a bar with a terrace; a fitness centre and an executive lounge.

Holiday Inn Express hotel in London Chingford offers affordable accommodation in a great location for exploring the UK’s Capital.

Bedrooms at our hotel all benefit from air-conditioning, en-suite with power shower, smart 32-inch flatscreen TVs – and a few little extras to make your stay a pleasure.

There is also a Great Room lounge where you can enjoy a evening meal, licensed bar and meeting facilities!

Wi-Fi is now free of charge and available throughout the hotel and guests will have access for one device per room, for the duration of their stay. Our free Wi-Fi is ideal for surfing the web, checking email and using social media, while our Enhanced Access is available for guests who want more bandwidth or to use multiple devices and starts from just £5 for 24 hours.

If you decide to drive to our London Chingford hotel you will find our ample car parking at no extra cost!

Our Chingford hotel is located in East London just minutes from the North Circular Road and within easy reach of London landmarks such as the new Olympic Park.

Easy to travel to and from Walthamstow Central tube station with several buses (97, 215, 357), within 30 minutes you can be in central London.

Thistle City Barbican is one of the few London City hotels with 463 bedrooms, Located just off the City Road, we have 10 on-site parking spaces available at an additional charge; Whether you’re here for business, the ballet, Beethoven or simply a short break in London, our Otium Health & Leisure Club has all you need to relax and unwind. Kings Cross & Euston Underground Stations are only a few minutes away from Old Street Train Station.

Welcome to the Hilton London Tower Bridge hotel, ideally located on the banks of the River Thames. This contemporary central London hotel is within the stylish 'More London' development and just minutes away from the city’s financial district. With a dedicated Guest Relations team on 24-hour call and a proven record of Hilton Brand Excellence, this hotel near Tower Bridge is committed to providing unrivalled service in modern surroundings.

Decorated in neutral tones, your comfortable guest room is filled with natural light from the large, opening windows. Curl up and watch on-demand movies on the 37-inch plasma TV, get to work at the desk with an ergonomic chair or refresh in the bathroom.

Work out in the fully equipped fitness center or use the nearby 37 Degrees Health Club, where you can swim in the indoor pool or join a fitness class. Explore the shops, theatres, museums and attractions of London.

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The hotel offers comfy, modern rooms and free Wi-Fi, a 3-minute walk from Wandsworth Town station and one stop from Clapham Junction. Trains travel to Waterloo in central London in about 15 minutes. The hotel is a 45-minute train ride from Gatwick Airport (LGW), and just over an hour from Heathrow Airport (LHR).

Guests are within easy reach of major London attractions such as Buckingham Palace and the Tower of London. Sports fans can get to football matches at Stamford Bridge by bus in under 25 minutes, or take a 10-minute Tube ride from East Putney station to Wimbledon for the tennis in summer. To stretch your legs, head to huge Battersea Park, less than two miles from the hotel.

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Edinburgh studio Malcolm Fraser Architects have completed this wooden treehouse housing an artists' studio in Glen Nevis, Scotland.

The wood-panelled structure sits atop a pillar and is reached via a bridge.

A meandering wooden walkway leading out from the hut nestles into the sloping landscape.

Called Outlandia, the project was commissioned by art and architecture collective London Fieldworks.

The structure is made partly of trees that were cut down to clear the site.

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Here's some more information from London Fieldworks and the architects:

Edinburgh studio Malcol, Fraser Architects have completed a treehouse in Glen Nevis, Scotland,

Outlandia is an off-grid treehouse artist studio and fieldstation in Glen Nevis, Lochaber, Scotland. A flexible meeting space in the forest for creative collaboration and research. Imagined by artists Bruce Gilchrist and Jo Joelson (London Fieldworks) and designed by Malcolm Fraser Architects, Outlandia is inspired by childhood dens, wildlife hides and bothies, by forest outlaws and Japanese poetry platforms.

It is located in a copse of Norwegian Spruce and Larch on Forestry Commission land, at the foot of Ben Nevis in the Scottish Highlands. “Construction was part-joinery, part-forestry and part-mountain rescue, with a local contractor who nicely combined all three, and an unusual set of Risk Assessments”.

Outlandia is an artist-led project, built in 2010 to foster links between creativity and the environment; a multi-purpose platform for the use of local and invited artists. London Fieldworks were invited by the Highland Council to make a proposal to celebrate the Year of Highland Culture that would create a lasting contemporary art legacy for the Fort William area. Outlandia is the outcome, a platform from which to consider creative responses to the environment. The proposal was inspired by London Fieldworks' previous experience working in Lochaber: whilst there is an abundance of artistic talent and creativity in the Highlands there are few dedicated contemporary arts facilities in Fort William or in the surrounding area.

The Outlandia project is sensitive to the shifting ecology between human population, industry and landscape. The site is on Forestry Commission land overlooking the southwest facing side of the glen with its ancient, native trees. This context makes explicit the dichotomy within a landscape under pressure to function as an area of outstanding natural beauty (the area has been branded Outdoor Capital of the UK) as well as a resource for society's raw materials - a schism common to many rural communities. During its time of service, Outlandia will provide a multi-purpose platform for the use of diverse community groups as well as selected artists and researchers. Outlandia is in line with The Scottish Forestry Strategy that aims to create opportunities for more people to enjoy trees, woods and forests in Scotland, and to help communities benefit from woods and forests.

OUTLANDIA: PROJECT DESCRIPTION

By Malcolm Fraser

The Project Brief was nice and loose: an artists’ fieldstation in Glen Nevis, to allow and encourage creative interaction between artists and the land, its history and people.

The site was even looser: somewhere in Glen Nevis. Where, exactly, grew out of a complex negotiation with partners, landowners and the local authorities, which brought to the surface some interesting tensions – a portion of the climbing fraternity, for instance, believes that hills should be for serious craggies only, and that artists should be kept away. On the ground, the choice of site grew out of long crawls through wet undergrowth and up wooded slopes, in clouds of midges and carpets of pine needles, in search of natural and human drama.

The site chosen is full of it. Sitting half-way up the opposite side of the Glen to Ben Nevis, a visitor approaches Outlandia through the path we cut through the dense woods behind, descending out the musty dark of the trees into a big view which, from dark-to-light and framed by old, tall larches, opens-up across the Glen to the shoulder of the Ben. The view of great nature dazzles, but we soon start to see the multiplicity of human interaction with it: the routes threading across the view, from the main road and West Highland Way along the foot of the Glen to the tourist route up the Ben, with its strings of tiny bobbling hats working their way up the hill; the car parks, caravan parks and visitor centre, places of the modern tourist trade; the old mills and older burial mounds, traces of more ancient useage; and the great industrial aluminium smelter across the Glen and the hydro that powers it.

Nothing could be further from the idea of the Highlands as “unspoilt wilderness”. We have long been part of this landscape, and it seems unlikely that any artists making work for, from or aound Outlandia would fail to enjoy and illuminate the tensions around nature, industry, tourism and heritage.

The building itself sits out from a 45 degree slope: a treehouse, part-built out the trees cut down to form the site, entered across a bridge from the slope behind; a simple box, leaning-out into the view with big windows opening-up to it. Part of the building of it was a low-impact, eco-friendly use of material recovered from the site; part the opposite, high-impact and hairy landings of concrete, for the foundations, from a helicopter. Construction was part-joinery, part-forestry and part-mountain rescue, with a local contractor who nicely combined all three, and an unusual set of Risk Assessments.

London Fieldworks commissioned Outlandia and are curating the work in and around it.

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Are You Being Served? (film)

Are You Being Served? is a 1977 comedy film based on the BBC's British sitcom Are You Being Served? (1972–1985), which follows the staff of the men's and women's clothing departments of the London Grace Brothers department store. The story is an adaptation of the successful stage version of the show, which played at Winter Gardens, Blackpool. The film was directed by Bob Kellett and the screenplay was by series creators and writers David Croft and Jeremy Lloyd. The film also featured the performers from the television series, including Mollie Sugden, John Inman, Frank Thornton, Trevor Bannister, Arthur Brough, Wendy Richard, and Nicholas Smith.

Premise
As Grace Brothers is being redecorated, the management sends the staff on a paid holiday to the resort of Costa Plonka, in Spain. After various misfortunes, they narrowly survive a gunfight between the revolutionaries and government troops. They are saved by a group of tanks that arrive on the scene; these prove to have been commandeered by Young Mr Grace, who wanted to visit his beleaguered underlings, but could not find a taxi.

Cast
John Inman as Mr. Wilberforce Clayborne Humphries, the senior sales assistant on the men's counter, expansive of personality and sexually ambivalent.
Mollie Sugden as Mrs Betty Slocombe, the head of the ladies department and the film's main female protagonist. She maintains an exaggeratedly dignified demeanour, but can easily become pugnacious in a crisis.
Frank Thornton as "Captain" Stephen Peacock, the icy floorwalker at Grace Brothers. He fancies himself a ladies' man, and frequently makes himself ridiculous in his attempts to be seductive.
Trevor Bannister as Mr. Dick Lucas, the disorganized junior of the men's department, quietly looked down upon by the other staff members. He has a seemingly insatiable tendency to make fun of his co-workers, and irritates Mrs. Slocombe especially.
Wendy Richard as Miss Shirley Brahms, the Cockney junior of the ladies' department and Mrs. Slocombe's friend. She is the most sensible person in her workplace, a fact of which she is irritably aware.
Arthur Brough as Mr. Ernest Grainger, the head of the men's department and the oldest member of the staff. He has a kind heart, but tends to be cranky, forgetful, and perpetually ready to fall asleep.
Nicholas Smith as Mr. Cuthbert "Jug Ears" Rumbold, the officious manager of the floor. He is constantly mocked because of his bald head and big ears.
Harold Bennett as Young Mr. Grace, the ancient and quietly debauched head of Grace Brothers department store.
Arthur English as Mr. Beverley Harman, the head of the packing department. Coarse of personality, he is clever enough to secure better treatment for himself than any of his nominal superiors.
Karan David as Conchita, a young waitress who works at the hotel. Lusted after by several of the characters, she is smitten with Mr. Humphries (whom she makes intensely uncomfortable).
Glyn Houston as Cesar Rodriguez, a terrorist with a crush on Mrs. Slocombe.
Andrew Sachs as Don Carlos Bernardo, the moderately dishonest hotel manager, and Cesar's unwilling accomplice.
Derek Griffiths, Nadim Sawalha, and Sheila Steafel as various Grace Brothers customers.
Penny Irving as Miss Nicholson, Mr. Grace's new secretary.
Raymond Bowers as Henry, the barber at Grace Brothers.

Filming

Filmed at
Elstree Studios and London Heathrow Airport

Release
The film opened in British cinemas from 31 July 1977 onwards.

Reception
In a contemporary review, John Pym of the Monthly Film Bulletin gave the film a negative review, stating that "The humour consists mainly of withering selection of patent British puns; an inflatable brassiere, some let's-insult-the-Germans jokes and a rickey thunder-box which bolts from the outside are thrown in for good measure."

In a retrospective review, DVD Verdict's Michael Stailey as a film that is "guilty of violating almost every law of comedy and film." The film is widely considered to be lacking in originality, plot, and focus. At present, the film holds a 58% positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes; the cutoff for a positive rating is 59%.

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Image caption The government should do more to boost the live music industry, UK Music said

Large-scale live music events in the UK contribute almost £1bn a year to the UK economy, a major industry survey of festivals and concerts suggests.

At least 7.7 million visits to events in 2009 resulted in £1.4bn being spent, equivalent to a positive contribution to the economy of £864m, UK Music said.

This expenditure sustained the equivalent of 19,700 jobs, it added.

Almost one-fifth of the total spend came from overseas tourists, who spend 25% more than non-music tourists.

'Considerable asset'

UK Music called on the government to implement a live-music tourism strategy to boost the number of visitors to the UK.

"The role of music in terms of creating jobs, in terms of sustaining businesses and in terms of attracting visitors to all regions of this country comes over loud and clear," said Feargal Sharkey, chief executive of UK Music.

"We will do all we can to work with policy-makers and tourism bodies to realise the potential of this considerable economic asset."

The body made a number of recommendations to the government, including:

Addressing concerns over the difficulties that overseas performers encounter with the UK's visa system

Working with the music industry to ensure that fans have an industry-approved facility to trade and sell on any tickets to live music events that they no longer need

Encouraging live music at the grass roots by exempting small venues from the licensing regulations in the 2003 Licensing Act.

Local economy

The research suggests that tourists spent £196m on concerts and £47m on festivals in 2009. UK music lovers spent £652m on concerts and £499m on festivals.

On top of this, £3m in total was spent on associated attractions.

Almost half of the total £1.4bn expenditure was spent outside music events, in local businesses such as hotels and restaurants.

Events in London generated the biggest proportion of overall expenditure, with overseas tourists and UK visitors spending more than £400m, sustaining almost 4,500 jobs, the report said.

The West Midlands was the next biggest contributing region, followed by north west England.

Bournemouth University's International Centre for Tourism and Hospitality Research conducted the analysis for UK Music's report, which was based on events attended by more than 5,000 people.

It had access to the data of more than 2.5 million ticket purchases to concerts and music festivals across the UK in 2009.

UK Music is an umbrella organisation representing the interests of the UK's commercial music industry.


Image copyright Pedro Aunión Monroy/Facebook Image caption Pedro Aunión Monroy was a trained dancer, specialising in aerial stunts

An acrobat from Brighton has died after reportedly falling 100ft (30m) during a stunt at a rock festival in Spain.

Specialist in aerial dance Pedro Aunión Monroy, was suspended in a cage during the Mad Cool festival in Madrid, on Friday night.

While near the main stage, in-between the performances by alt-J and Green Day, he fell.

Paramedics spent 30 minutes trying to revive him, but were unable to save him.

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Mr Monroy from Portslade, who trained in the schools of Pilar López, Cristina Rota and in the Royal Conservatory of Dance, had his own performance company, In Fact Aerial Dance, based in Brixton, London.

He also worked as a self-employed massage therapist at The Grand Hotel, Brighton.

Speaking to the BBC, the hotel's general manager Andrew Mosley said: "We are all very sad to hear the news, it is the most terrible news and our hearts go out to his friends and family."

He added the sports masseur enjoyed half marathons and was a very popular member of the staff.

Just a few days before the festival, he posted a picture and a last message on Facebook of himself and his partner which said "love, come to my arms".

Image copyright Facebook Image caption Mr Monroy's last Facebook post before his death was a loving message to his partner

The festival organisers did not initially inform the audience or the bands the fall was fatal because of "security reasons" and around 40 minutes after, Green Day took to the stage for their set.

Tweeting after their performance Green Day said: "We just got off stage at Mad Cool Festival to disturbing news. A very brave artist named Pedro lost his life tonight in a tragic accident. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family and friends."

It is unclear at this stage what happened with Mr Monroy's equipment which caused him to fall.

Slowdive, which was due on stage after Green Day, suspended its performance, saying: "Due to the tragic accident in Mad Cool this night we feel it is not appropriate to play. Our thoughts are with those affected."

A statement on the 45,000-ticket sell out festival's website from directors Javier Arnaiz and Farruco Castromán reads: "Mad Cool Festival regrets the terrible accident that the aerial dancer suffered during the second day of the festival.

Image copyright European Photopress Agency Image caption Mr Monroy fell just before rock band Green Day went on stage

"For security reasons, the festival decided to continue with its programming. We send our most sincere condolences to all his family.

"Tomorrow Saturday 8, during the festival, we will render a heartfelt tribute to the artist."

The mayor of Madrid, Manuela Carmena, has also tweeted to say she was sorry to hear of the death and sent "a loving embrace to your family, friends and colleagues".


Matthew Garrett, the well-known Linux and security expert who works at CoreOS, was in a London hotel recently where the light switches had been replaced by Android tablets. Garrett, a hacker's hacker, decided to see what they were doing. A few hours later Garrett had access to the electronics in every room.

Matthew Garrett

Oh boy.

While Garrett is a security expert, this feat didn't require any elite cracker skills. Garrett explained he unplugged a tablet and put his laptop into the link. He then set up a transparent bridge. That's trivial for any Linux network administrator. He then used the popular network protocol analyzer WireShark to analyze the traffic.

He quickly found that the devices were using the Modbus protocol. This is an, ancient, serial protocol used to control program logic controllers (PLC)s, aka simple electronic devices. "Modbus is a pretty trivial protocol, and notably has no authentication whatsoever," observed Garrett. I'll add that it has no security whatsoever.

Tcpdump revealed that the traffic was being directed to the IPV4 address 172.16.207.14. A little bit later, with pymodbus, an open-source Python implementation, Garrett was happily "controlling my lights, turning the TV on and off and even making my curtains open and close. What fun!"

Then he noticed that his room number was 714 and his IP address ended in 7.14. Could it be? Could it possibly be?

Yes! Yes, it was

"It's basically as bad as it could be - once I'd figured out the gateway, I could access the control systems on every floor and query other rooms to figure out whether the lights were on or not, which strongly implies that I could control them as well."

He resisted the temptation to set room lights to full and open curtains at 3AM. And he didn't check to see if he might "open door room 614." Surely, that's on a different, more secure system. ... I hope.

In a related, but far sillier episode, a recent NPR episode on Amazon Echo caused several Echo devices to start responding to its default attention word "Alexa" during the broadcast.

Do you think that Echoes should use programmable wake words? I, and, my fellow ZDNet writer, David Gewirtz do.

What do these episodes have in common? In both cases two early model Internet of Things (IoT) devices showed that they have no security to speak of.

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Yes, Garrett is a security professional, but he didn't need any of those skills. Anyone with some network savvy could have done the same. As for the Echo incidents, the gadgets "hacked" themselves.

This is only the latest of a long series of trivial IoT security exploits. There was the live Internet baby monitor feed and the remotely hackable Nissan Leaf car.

The Internet of Things has sounded cool to me ever since I saw Star Trek where computers were everywhere and you could work with them by simply speaking into thin air. The reality's not nearly as much fun.

The US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper recently warned us that "Devices, designed and fielded with minimal security requirements and testing, and an ever-increasing complexity of networks could lead to widespread vulnerabilities in civilian infrastructures and US government systems."

Minimal? Minimal!? We're already living with IoT devices with no built-in security. Unless we require our IoT devices to have real security now -- not tomorrow, today -- we are going to see a crime wave like none we've ever seen before.

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ARE you always complaining about how expensive things are in Australia compared to the rest of the world?

Well, the fourth addition of the Deutsche Bank report into world prices is out and it provides an interesting insight into our hip pocket.

By analysing the cost of certain goods in every country such as a Big Mac, pair of Levi jeans and an iPhone, the report showed just how much more expensive it is to shop in Australia compared to the rest of the world. But it might not be as much as you think.

A key finding of this year’s survey is the extent to which exchange rate movements impacted prices. In previous years, Australia had consistently been the world’s most expensive developed country while the United States had been the cheapest developed country. This year, however, the strength of the US dollar has significantly narrowed the gap between the two.

Meanwhile, India remains the cheapest major economy in the world while shopping in Europe and Japan now feels a lot cheaper than before.

A popular metric is the Big Mac barometer which shows the cheapest place to buy the famous burger. That illustrious honour went to the Ukraine this year at $1.20 USD closely followed by Russia at $1.36 USD. You won’t want to satisfy your Macca’s craving in Switzerland since a single burger will set you back $7.54 USD. For the record, a Big Mac in Australia is $4.32 USD.

For a quick weekend getaway, Sydney, Paris and London remain the most expensive due to high hotel room rates while Mumbai and Delhi are the cheapest. Tokyo, Ottawa and Toronto were also found to be surprisingly attractive.

Indian cities are also the cheapest places to go out on a date. Mexico City and Rio de Janeiro were also found to be reasonably priced. Despite Yen depreciation, Tokyo is still an expensive place for a date as are Wellington and San Francisco.

Other cheap and not so cheap purchases include:

Cheapest:

iPhone 6: USA at $650 USD

New Volkswagen Golf 2.0 TDI 140 CV 6: Mumbai, India at $11,345 USD

Cigarettes: Jakarta, Indonesia at $1.35 USD or Russia, Moscow at $1.35 USD

Office space rental*: After India T $23.69 USD it’s Ottawa, Canada at $33.80 USD

Most expensive:

Men’s haircuts: Zurich, Switzerland at $49.80 USD

Beer in a pub: Paris, France at $7.60 USD

A pair of Levis 501: Shanghai, China at $116.40 USD

iPhone 6: Brazil at $1,254 USD

1 litre of petrol: Hong Kong at $2.19

2 litres of Coke: Sydney, Australia at $3.36 USD

* The average rent quoted per square foot per annum for Class A office building within CBD plus additional costs such as property taxes, service charges or operating expenses.


Putting on the Ritz - Top Recruiter

Running throughout the year (January - December 2018), our Achievement Awards are given to our Top Sellers, Recruiters, Organisers, Mentors and Leaders for both new and established Organisers.

We are thrilled that on Friday 22nd February 2019, we will be inviting thetop three Organisers in each of the six categories to join us for a behind-the-scenes tour of Usborne Publishing at Usborne House in London, followed by an exclusive dinner in a private dining room at the world-famous five-star luxury hotel - The Ritz, and an overnight stay at the Washington Mayfair hotel!

This month we spoke to one of our potential 2018 winners, Sarah Higgs, who is currently in third place in our Top Recruiter category. Sarah is a great example of how it's still not too late to put yourself in the running for our Achievement Awards.

Here's how Sarah got herself back onto the leaderboard for Top Recruiter:

'From the start of the year, I knew I wanted to aim to be at the Ritz in 2019, but I completely lost focus and drifted in my business. In July I had fallen off the leaderboards completely and decided to pause and take a moment to reflect, write some new goals and totally readdress my business and what I needed to do to get back on track.

I knew I needed to be able to keep track of what is going on. So, with this in mind, I went shopping for some new stationery and created a new chart to keep track of everyone who joined the team from the first of July. I wrote in all their incentives dates and when they placed their first order and unlocked schools. It made keeping track of everyone so much easier. The results have been amazing and it was so exciting to see my name back on the leaderboard and especially in third slot.

I really would love to be at the Ritz next year, but if I make it or not, I know my business is in a much stronger place by trying to get there, than if I had just admitted defeat.'

Inspired by Sarah and want to know how you can join us at The Ritz in 2019? Find out more about our Achievement Awards criteria here. It's still not too late to achieve this fantastic incentive!

We are very excited to be able to celebrate the successes of more Organisers than ever next year, and can't wait to shout about all your amazing achievements for 2018!


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Day 2

Calgary to Lake Louise

Leave Calgary this morning and head out on a full-day tour, beginning in Kananaskis where you’ll take a 12-minute Summit Helicopter over the Rockies for fantastic views. Continue to Bow Falls in Banff, Lake Minnewanka, Surprise Corner and the Hoodoos, ending the tour in the picturesque Lake Louise.

Day 3

Lake Louise to Banff

You will have this morning free to explore Lake Louise at your own pace, then after lunch you’ll take part in a half-day tour of the Yoho National Park. This will include the Spiral Tunnels, Emerald Lake and Kicking Horse River with the natural rock bridge. You’ll be transferred to Banff at the end of the tour.

Overnight in Banff

Please note: While departure from The Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise will be approximately 2pm, scheduled check-out time is normally 12pm. Your luggage will be stored upon check-out and you are free to enjoy the amenities of the hotel before the tour departs.

Day 4

Banff to Kamloops

Travelling onboard the Rocky Mountaineer from Banff to Kamloops, this part of the journey offers up some spectacular scenery through the Canadian Rockies. Today’s highlights include the Continental Divide, the Spiral Tunnels, Kicking Horse Canyon, Rogers Pass and Craigellachie, where the last spike of the Canadian Pacific Railway was driven.

Overnight in Kamloops (Breakfast and lunch included)

Day 5

Kamloops to Vancouver

Head west today to the Pacific Ocean and the city of Vancouver. This section provides more dramatic scenery changes, as you pass the Coast and Cascade Mountains, and the verdant fields of Fraser Valley. Your rail journey ends on arrival into Vancouver this evening.

Day 6

Vancouver

Enjoy a six-hour sightseeing tour of Vancouver’s North Shore today, travelling across the Lions Gate Bridge and into the Coast Mountains, experiencing the Capilano Suspension Bridge and Treetops Adventure, discovering the rainforest and British Columbia’s First Nations heritage. Afterwards, visit Grouse Mountain (gondola admission included), the Peak of Vancouver and admire the views of the city, ocean and surrounding mountains.

Day 7

Vancouver to Seattle

Travelling onboard the Rocky Mountaineer, head to the ‘Emerald City’ of Seattle today. You’ll be transferred via motorcoach to your from your hotel to the nearby Pacific Central Station early in the morning, where you’ll clear U.S. Customs and board the southbound rail journey to Seattle. Indulge in a tasty hot breakfast as you cross the Fraser River and leave Vancouver, with highlights including the views of Bellinghman Bay and the San Juan Islands beyond, and the views of Chittenden Locks linking Puget Sound with Lakes Union and Washington. Transfer once more by motorcoach to your hotel and enjoy the rest of the day at leisure.

The weather information shown below refers to the first stop on the tour, call us and speak to one of our travel experts for the most up-to-date forecasts and weather details for your tour.

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When it comes to hair raising, Ken Dodd is in a class of his own. Doesn’t need a comb. Or lacquer. Or even chewing gum. Just a finger twirl through his lank, black locks and presto! Uprightness. Spikiness. A cross between the Statue of Liberty and a petrified gollywog.

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It’s all very impressive and I’m beginning to think my hair has let me down. We try combing it. And back-combing it. Even Doddy’s magic fingers — which worked wonders on him — can’t make my hair stand on end. Can’t do a thing with it. And it wasn’t washed last night, either!

“Never mind,” says Doddy, brightly. “Let it settle a mo. We’ll attack it at intervals, when it’s unsuspecting. Maybe that will work.”

Now exactly why I should want my hair to stand erect after it has behaved itself like any decent English hair for years is rather a mystery. It’s just that with comedians, I always seem to get so involved. And end up in a whacky situation.

Tickled I was – when Doddy tried to make my hair stand on end. Most discumknockerating?

And they don’t come much whackier than sitting high above London’s fashionable Park Lane in an hotel executive suite, attempting … well … high coiffeur with Ken Dodd. But that’s Doddy for you: the most conventional conversation turns into a chuckle, a giggle, or a downright belly laugh.

Right now Doddy’s Music Box master is in London for cabaret. Such sessions, in between television, radio and recordings, mean high pressure living for Ken. You’d think he’d be all on edge. Go, go, go … gag, gag, gag. But no. He’s relaxed. That electric energy that powers his stage act rarely overlaps into his private life.

“It’s the reason I keep going, I suppose,” he says, quietly, with just a whisper of his native Knotty Ash dialect. “I don’t panic. Not any more. I’m able to relax. I’m a placid type.”

And he proceeds to show just how placid by attacking my skull from the back, rummaging like a housewife at a jumble sale! Ahem, I’d forgotten about his hair threat. But not to worry. Mine continues to lie doggo.

“But I have found a couple of little curls here,” says Ken. “And that’s a start.” Well, thank heaven for little curls …

That’s the trouble with Doddy. Just when you think you’ve got him talking seriously … BANG, something daft happens. It’s most discumknockerating.

Gosh, Doddy’s even got me at it now! But with Ken there’s always some little item, some link between the real life Kenneth Arthur Dodd and the man who tickles the fancy of the nation.

Look at his smart, well-tailored, but unobtrusive suit. What every go-ahead young business man is wearing this season.

But you can bet that somewhere in a pocket, there’s a scrap of paper on which Ken has jotted down a new gag, a new comedy routine.

“There’s one now,” he admits, delving deep into his wallet pocket. “On this envelope. It says ‘Knotty Ash Crown Jewels.’ Now that ties up with that silversmiths I passed this afternoon. Never done anything on that, and it lends itself. It’s daft enough.”

The Dodd comedy brain rarely stops working. And he must have quite a brain as hair like his would need something pretty sensational to take root in!

Still reads comics; never stops looking for the opportunity to slip in the quick ad lib.

“I work hard,” he says. “And eat three regular meals a day. Try to get a decent sleep each night, too. When I wake up in the morning, I exercise. Up, down. Up, down. Then the other eyelid!”

He has the master touch of leading into a gag casually, so you are completely unsuspecting. I throw back my head to guffaw and that is a mistake. Gives Ken a perfect chance to try again to get my hair to emulate his tonsorial acrobatics (that’s his explanation, by the way).

H’mmm, back to the interview. Ken doesn’t smoke; thinks it is a “mug’s game.” Lives in a splendid 18th-century Georgian farmhouse in Knotty Ash. It’s packed with all the gear his abounding talents might require; piano, recording equipment, tapes, film, projector, Ken Dodd is the ultimate professional.

Makes a deep, philosophical study of humour; the breakdown of a gag, what exactly makes people laugh at it. Cheerfully admits there is no general rule — or if there is, he hasn’t found it. Says his hobby is “just chatting to ordinary people.” He’s 37, done the lot professionally. Could afford to sit back a bit, but still drives on. Looking forward to a new stage presentation at the Palladium; to a film; to his Doddy’s Music Box each week.

“Great mixing with these pop people,” he says. “They’re such good sports. I’m enjoying the shows greatly: you could call it a nice blend of pop and com.”

Well, it was his line, not mine.

And we’ve been talking almost an hour and his hair is still spiralling upwards. It’s incredible. I never want to see the Indian rope trick now. “Discovered my hair years ago,” he says. “It was on my head! But one night in my dressing room as I heaved off my pullover, my hair just stayed upright.”

And mine won’t. Ken makes a final attack and comes to a (sorry, but it’s catching) hairline decision.

Oh yes, diddy people. We haven’t mentioned them. How did they begin? “It was my Uncle Jack,” says Ken, arching an eyebrow. “Years ago. He was a diddy man. Very small, quaint, red-faced, lovable, puckish. All the kids down our way called him diddy.”

Well, the hair doesn’t work. I am a dead loss at that. At my height (6ft. 2in.) I hardly qualify as a diddy man. Haven’t Ken and I something in common?


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Looking for a comfy hotel near the Thames? Located within the world heritage site of Historic Greenwich, our luxurious lodge provides some of the smartest yet most affordable accommodation in London. It's perfect if you're planning a visit to the capital and have a love for history. The Cutty Sark, National Maritime Museum and the Royal Observatory are very close by – as is Greenwich Park, the oldest royal green space in London.

It’s still populated with wild deer; though they’re no longer hunted by King Henry VIII.

For culture fans, we’re handy for the O2 Arena and a plethora of specialist gastronomic shops, foodie eateries and craft markets – and only 15 minutes away from central London (by train, DLR, bus or river taxi).

At The Mitre Hotel, we have 24 elegantly furnished en-suite bedrooms, including three luxury suites, all equipped with flat screen TVs with freeview, free Wifi, complimentary hot drinks and hairdryers. There is a residents’ lounge, secret garden and conservatory – and let’s not forget our historic pub downstairs. Our rooms offer a world of little extras, so you'll find everything you need whether indulging in a short break, unwinding after business or simply treating yourself to a special dinner and stopover. A breakfast buffet is included in all room rates, and the pub serves hot meals if you don't fancy venturing out in the evening.

The hotel is located just off the A206, near to St Alfege's Church. Please note there is no parking available at the hotel, however there is street parking available which is free between the hours of 6pm and 9am, an hourly charge applies at all other times. Alternatively there is a private secure car park opposite, available for £12 per night. Cutty Sark and Greenwich train stations are only 5 minutes walk away if you are travelling to the hotel by train.

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Sunday, 31 January 2010

Gorgeous? Of course it is. But this contrary to all appearances is not the General Trading Company on Sloane Sq.

Or the new Nouveau Orientalist galleries at the V & A (I made that up)

No, it 's a house, a residence, a dwelling, a home.

According to a mild piece of hagiography by Min Hogg in February's World of Interiors, it belongs to Anouska Hempel and her long-suffering husband Sir Mark Weinberg. Hempel is a multi-faceted designer and all-round good egg. Unless you have to live with her? The dearth of squashy chairs and sofas in the drawing room is, apparently, resolutely intentional. ' I always sit up straight, never sprawl or loll'. Funny eh, since everywhere you go there are mountain ranges of blooming cushions where presumably you get ticked off for scaling them and even worse, knocking them over.

If I were her house guest, I'd be sure to take out personal accident insurance with third party liability. That's beside the self-denying ordinance. I know somebody who stayed at Blakes, her legendary London boutique hotel, and found it something of an obstacle course.

Hempel has a marvellous eye for display but so do a lot of Knightsbridge window dressers. As an interior designer I wouldn't exactly say she's ready for beatification yet.

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Very pretty stuff, but it resembles a set for a film about a well-heeled compulsive(Sleuth, maybe). It would be difficult for actual people to inhabit that space, unless all they did was sit around and gawk all day.Is that really a bed, or a catafalque for the Pope? Even a strictly vanilla couple would have it a shambles after a minute or two of aerobics.You're right. It looks much more like a meticulously arranged shop.-rurritable

so fascinating-destined to be shot-as in photographed again and again. the "one of several dining rooms" is worthy of who Charles I or II? Too many pillows,too too many in the living room is it? I had tea in Blakes Hotel-this is another hotel fantasy. I love your take on it- especially the Nouveau Orientalist Gallery. How I love to Loll'

I've not seen the article yet but I feel, and have felt this way for a long time, that Weinstock's interiors would be suffocatingly full of what in the end looks like a collection of chotzskes. I have photos of her first published place and was as underwhelmed when I saw them as I am with these photos.

I've been to Blakes. Seen several rooms and was impressed by theircomplete disregard for comfort and logic. Mannered effects borderingon the sinister. Anouska Hempel is another of those designers whosecelebrity is utterly unfathomable. In fact her work represents everythingI loathe in Interior Decoration~the piling on of meaningless effects, the crowded table tops, the upscale boutique atmosphere. Yet I know of people who go into positive raptures over it.

Yes, it would make a beautiful movie setiting, but for real life..... ?Agree with Mr. Worthington and HOBAC completely. Do think she is on par with KWID here in the states in some way. Have too, been to Blakes, and was shocked/appalled/bewildered that I spent so much for such a lovely, yet vacuouis experience. It's a bit like looking for the prize in the cracker box, not finding it, or worse, fishing it out and realizing it's plastic and cheap, probably broke.

The interiors do look fabulous, but only from a photoshoot perspective, or as a window at Harrods or GTC, (when it was any good - what happened to that by the way?). But yes too contrived. Kelly Hoppen has the same problem too in the pillow/cushion department, and whilst her seating may be more comfortable, her style too is contrived.

In my view Hempel ranks amongst the worst of the "great" lady decorators (at least the ones featured in the mags), right up there with Clodagh and Muriel Brandolini. I don't "get" any of their work, all of which seems to me to be spectacularly uncomfortable-looking, often ugly, and certainly idiotic.

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These 10 hotels add style and luxury amenities to the airport hotel experience

Skytrax named the top airport hotels earlier this month

How close are you to the airport? Is there a decent bar or restaurant on site? The worn-down, travel-weary businessperson is looking for proximity, convenience and comfortable amenities in an airport hotel. There's little time to waste.

The Regal Airport Hotel in Hong Kong seems to know what satisfies the road warrior. The hotel was recently named No. 1 in the airport hotel category of the 2013 Skytrax World Airport Awards. (Earlier this month, CNN featured the world's top airport award-winner.)

Hong Kong's Regal Airport Hotel secured the top spot for the third year in a row and was also named the best airport hotel in Asia. An enclosed bridge directly connects the hotel to the airport's passenger terminal, so being on time for your flight shouldn't be a problem. The nearly 1,200 room hotel also has six restaurants and bars, in-house conference and meeting facilities, a spa and indoor and outdoor pools.

Skytrax's World Airport Awards are based on 12.1 million survey questionnaires filled out by passengers covering 108 different nationalities and 395 airports worldwide during a nine-month survey period in 2012 and 2013.

The airport hotel survey covered topics such as arrival and departure (access to the hotel from the airport, availability of hotel shuttles/taxis, waiting times at check-in): room comfort (size, cleanliness, comfort, Internet/Wi-Fi, television/audio options); hotel amenities (restaurant and bar, price of food and drink, fitness and spa options); staff (friendliness/courtesy, room service efficiency, staff language skills) and value for money.


If you are looking for the No. 1 public place to take a No. 1 or No. 2, head to Victoria.

The public toilet near Bastion Square was voted as the best place in Canada to "go", according to Cintas' Canada's Best Restroom Contest.

The Langley Street Loo beat out washrooms in the This Is London Club and Earls restaurant in Toronto, The Georgian Court Hotel in Vancouver and the Centre for Professional Training in Repentigny, Quebec. Those places finished two through five respectively.

As for Victoria mayor Dean Fortin, he's "flushed with pride."

"The Langley Street Loo is part of a larger strategy that ensures our downtown is vibrant and safe — day and night," said Victoria Mayor, Dean Fortin, in a statement. "Access to public amenities, like a 24-hour washroom, are important to our downtown community.

It is even better when those amenities are attractive and innovative."

The Langley Street Loo has an open design allowing for personal privacy and public access, according to the statement. It is a unisex bathroom with exterior hand washing station and the exterior has a graffiti-proof coating. People with disabilities can also use the facility.

Cintas provides entrance mats, restroom cleaning and supplies and other services to tens of thousands of business in Canada.

The toilet offers 24/7 relief for anyone in the area. It was purchased from the City of Portland, Oregon for $90,000 last year and is maintained by the city's sanitation crews.

The commodious competition began in the U.S. about a decade ago and this was the third year it has been conducted in Canada. In the U.S. everything from a restaurant to an airport and a university hall to a market with a Port-o-let-looking bathroom have won.

Last year, e11even's contemporary washroom in Toronto took top prize, beating out the Allstream Centre in Toronto and the Ottawa Convention Centre. In the inaugural year, The Cactus Club Cafe in Burnaby, B.C. won.

[ Related: Cactus Club claims best restroom award in 2010 ]

The stainless steel structure that won this year is much different compared to the Cactus Club, which features modern art, wood-panelled walls, built-in televisions, floor-to-ceiling smoked glass stall doors, fresh cut flowers and updated reading materials.

Above all the luxury found at some of the top loos, Cintas wants to make the point that having a clean washroom means better business.

"Over 70 per cent of the people have a perception of how that business is run by the cleanliness of their restrooms," says Kirk Kirssin, director of marketing for Cintas, in an online video.

[ More Daily Buzz: Smarter people drink more alcohol ]

Cintas is already looking for people to nominate their favourite facilities for next year's competition.

(Photo courtesy of Cintas Canada)

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Samsung and Marriott Partner on VRoom Service

Marriott Hotels has partnered with Samsung to offer its guests with virtual reality (VR) headsets to their rooms. The two are testing this service called VRoom Service over a two-week period at the New York Marriott Marquis and London Marriott Park Lane hotels. According to Marriott, the VRoom Service is a first of its kind in the travel industry.

Samsung has provided Samsung Gear VR headsets and headphones. They are delivered to a guest’s bedroom where they can enjoy an “in-room virtual reality travel experience”.

Matthew Carroll, Vice President, Marriott Hotels, says “Our guests want to be in inventive spaces that help foster their creativity and thinking. VRoom combines storytelling with technology, two things that are important to next generation travelers”.

Along with the new VR serice, the company has launched also launched VR Postcards. According to Marriott, the VR Postcards are “intimate and immersive travel stories that users experience in 360 3D via a virtual reality headset”. The VR Postcards will feature three videos which reflect feelings of people while traveling to Chile, Rwanda and Beijing. The postcards will give the guests a feeling of an actual trip to these three destinations. These postcards feature immersive travel stories that users experience in 360 3D via a virtual reality headset.

The VRoom Service users will be able to access VR Postcards. They will be also available to the general public via Samsung Milk VR premium video service which can be accessed via the Samsung Gear VR headset.

The hotel chain is aiming at offering a unique experience to its customers by making them experience VR beyond gaming.

Michael Dail, VP of Global Brand Marketing, Marriott, says, A lot of people have never thought of virtual reality outside of gaming, so to put it inside a trip, what does it feel like to take a virtual trip?. That starts a conversation. Are you really traveling if you just have the virtual sensation? And a lot of people who tried it said, ‘Yes, this reminds me of what travel is, it makes me feel like I’m there’”.

Apart from the VR postcards, the guests will also be able to access Samsung Gear VR’s other services such as YouTube for virtual reality video content and more.

Matt Apfel, Vice President, Strategy and Creative Content, Samsung Media Solutions Center America, says, “VRoom Service is one of the first business applications of Samsung’s Gear VR technology. We’re tremendously excited to be collaborating with an innovative brand like Marriott on creating the future for travelers”.

This is not the first attempt of Marriott where it is testing VR. Last year the company had introduced the immersive 4-D virtual reality travel experience with The Marriott Teleporter. The new experience will take its guests even deeper giving them an innovative virtual reality experience.

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Presidents Club

The Presidents Club Charitable Trust is a British charity known for an annual charity dinner held from 1985 to 2018. The dinner, held usually at The Dorchester hotel in London, was for male guests only and was considered a "mainstay of London’s social calendar". After the Financial Times reported on sexual misconduct at the 2018 dinner, the charity announced its intent to disband.

The charitable trust's joint chairmen as of 2018 were the property developer Bruce Ritchie and the businessman and Department for Education director David Meller.

Charity dinners
The 360 guests at the annual dinners – all men – included leading figures in business, entertainment and politics. They would pay for a dinner and participate in auctions of such prizes as meetings with influential people. The proceeds would go to charities, including children's charities, and other organisations, for example the British Olympic Association and Disability Rights International.

In 2008, guests at the dinner organised by Harvey Goldsmith  included Justin King, Harold Tillman and Robert Tchenguiz.

In 2010, guests at the dinner organised by Peter Shalson and sponsored by HSBC included Len Blavatnik, Mike Sherwood, Charles Dunstone, Sir Martin Sorrell, Richard Desmond, Bernie Ecclestone, Flavio Briatore, Nick Candy, David Reuben, Gerald Ronson, Howard Shore, Harvey Goldsmith, Jarvis Astaire, Jimmy Lahoud, Dan Wagner, and Jimmy Tarbuck.

2018 sexual harassment controversy
In January 2018, the Financial Times sent two undercover reporters to join the 130 scantily clad "hostesses" specially hired for the event by the  Artista agency. It reported that several of the guests had sexually harassed or assaulted the hostesses in the course of the evening. The lead reporter, Madison Marriage, wrote that the hostesses were subject to groping, lewd comments, requests to join guests in their bedrooms, questions whether they were prostitutes, and that one attendee exposed his penis to a hostess. Marriage said that she herself had been groped several times. The event's brochure included a full-page warning that harassment would not be tolerated, and that the Presidents Club would not be liable for it if it did happen.

The report caused a scandal in the United Kingdom, and commentators connected the event to the #MeToo movement, the Harvey Weinstein scandal and resulting allegations indicating frequent sexual abuse of women. Within a day, the Presidents Club announced that it would disband. Some MPs called for the resignation of children and families minister Nadhim Zahawi, who had been among the guests, as well as for a police investigation of the event. Presidents Club co-chairman David Meller resigned from his Department of Education directorship. Jonathan Mendelsohn, another of the guests, was removed from the Labour frontbench in the House of Lords. Several bookshops stopped the sale of books by the comedian David Walliams, who had hosted the event and put up the right to name a character in his next book as a prize. All of these men said to the media that they had neither participated in nor witnessed any misconduct.

The guest list of the 2018 dinner included the following other notable men (although they did not necessarily attend):

Liam Botham, rugby player
Richard Caring, businessman
Gino D'Acampo, celebrity chef
Christopher Evans, biotechnology entrepreneur
Philip Green, retail executive
George Holmes, university executive
Peter Jones, Dragons' Den star
Vernon Kay, TV presenter
Jimmy Lahoud, restaurateur
Brett Palos, property developer
Theo Paphitis, Dragons' Den star
Harry Primrose, Lord Dalmeny, deputy chairman of Sotheby's UK
Rami Ranger, founder of Sun Mark
Bruce Ritchie, property developer
Peter Shalson, property developer
Tim Steiner, co-founder and CEO of Ocado
Touker Suleyman, fashion entrepreneur
Robert Tchenguiz, businessman
Ceawlin Thynn, Viscount Weymouth, businessman
Dan Wagner, Internet entrepreneur
Poju Zabludowicz, business magnate

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Choose the stylish Crowne Plaza London-Kensington hotel, a short walk from Victorian shopping, royal parks and London's epic museums.

Step in from a street of Georgian townhouses to Crowne Plaza London-Kensington's boutique-style Lobby, where marble floors, zinc countertops and mood lighting create an elegant atmosphere. Dedicated Front Desk staff provides a personalised service, while our Concierge is ready with details of nearby Harrod's department store, the Natural History Museum and strolls through handsome Kensington Gardens.

London Heathrow Airport is 30 minutes by taxi from Crowne Plaza London-Kensington. We're opposite Gloucester Road Tube station and a few stops from Victoria and Paddington rail stations. You can walk to Earl's Court and Olympia exhibition centres, as well as classical music at the Royal Albert Hall. An array of sculptures, photographs and antiques vie for attention in the Victoria & Albert Museum, 800 metres away.

Umami Restaurant‘Umami’ is an Oriental eatery offering a comprehensive selection of dishes influenced from Thailand, Enjoy a moment of quiet in our private, landscaped gardens or live jazz at weekends in the colourful The Bar, where signature cocktails are mixed. Personal trainers provide bespoke workouts in our Fitness Centre.

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Chelsea Harbour is a mixed-use development in Central London, situated on the north bank of the River Thames, in the Sands End area. It lies within the eastern boundary of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham and on the southwestern boundary of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
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In an interview with The New York Times‘ Maureen Dowd, Uma Thurman accused Harvey Weinstein of sexual misconduct and detailed instances of alleged professional misconduct while on set with Quentin Tarantino. Thurman had worked with both Weinstein and Tarantino on Pulp Fiction and later both volumes of Kill Bill.

Thurman had previously hinted at negative experiences with Weinstein, but this is the first time the actresses has detailed the allegations. Speaking to The New York Times, Thurman alleges that Weinstein put on a robe during a business meeting in Paris and asked her to follow him to a steam room. “I didn’t feel threatened,” the actress said. “I thought he was being super idiosyncratic, like this was your kooky, eccentric uncle.”

After the Paris meeting, the actress alleges that Weinstein attempted to sexually assault her in a hotel room in London. “It was such a bat to the head. He pushed me down. He tried to shove himself on me. He tried to expose himself. He did all kinds of unpleasant things,” she said. “But he didn’t actually put his back into it and force me. You’re like an animal wriggling away, like a lizard. I was doing anything I could to get the train back on the track. My track. Not his track.”

Thurman then says she returned with a friend to the Savoy Hotel where the alleged assault took place to confront Weinstein. Thurman asked to meet Weinstein in the lobby but was then convinced by his assistant to go to his hotel room. She says that she warned the producer: “If you do what you did to me to other people you will lose your career, your reputation and your family, I promise you.”

According to the article, Thurman’s “memory of the incident abruptly stops there.” However, her friend Ilona Herman, who was waiting for her in the lobby, claims she remembers what happened. “She was very disheveled and so upset and had this blank look,” Herman told the Times. “Her eyes were crazy and she was totally out of control. I shoveled her into the taxi and we went home to my house. She was really shaking.” When Thurman recovered, the friend alleges that she told her that Weinstein had threatened her career.

In a statement released through a spokesperson, Weinstein denied threatening Thurman’s career but acknowledges that he made a sexual advance on the actress. “Mr. Weinstein acknowledges making a pass at Ms. Thurman in England after misreading her signals in Paris,” the statement reads. “He immediately apologized.”

The article also details instances of professional misconduct by Quentin Tarantino. Thurman alleges that on the set of Kill Bill, Tarantino spat in her face and choked her during takes in the place of actors, Michael Madsen and Chiaki Kuriyama. She also alleges that while filming Kill Bill in Mexico, Tarantino persuaded her to drive a car that she described as “a death box.” While shooting the scene, Thurman lost control of the car and crashed into a tree.

Thurman posted the footage of the crash on her personal Instagram writing that “The circumstances of this event were negligent to the point of criminality” and adding that Tarantino was “deeply regretful and remains remorseful about this sorry event”.

In an interview with Deadline, Tarantino responds to the allegations in The New York Times article. “Me and Uma had our issues about the crash. She blamed me for the crash and she had a right to blame me for the crash,” the director said. “I didn’t mean to do it. I talked her into getting in the car, I assured her the road was safe. And it wasn’t. The car might even have been dubious too even if I didn’t know that then. We had our issues about it.”

Tarantino also explained why he chose to spit in Therman’s face while filming. “Naturally, I did it,” he said. “Who else should do it? A grip? One, I didn’t trust Michael Madsen because, I don’t know where the spit’s going to go, if Michael Madsen does it. I talked to Uma and I said, look. I’ve got to kind of commit to doing this to you. I’ll only do it twice, at the most, three times. But I can’t have you laying here, getting spit on, again and again and again, because somebody else is messing it up by missing.”

Read the full New York Times article here, and Taratnino’s responds in Deadlinehere.

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The job looked good on paper – serving guests at an exclusive banquet in a City of London livery hall. The pay was good, too – £10.20 an hour, the London living wage and significantly more than the £7.05 for similar jobs. For Lucy, a 19-year-old corporate catering assistant, it was far too good an opportunity to turn down.

Later, she wished she had. The extra pay did not make up for the barrage of comments and bad behaviour, including persistent and unchecked harassment by a diner who made inappropriate sexual comments, asked personal questions and propositioned her for a threesome. “At some point he was ‘complimenting’ me and telling me I looked beautiful,” Lucy said.

“Then he was like: ‘Yeah I think my girlfriend would really like you. We’d both like you very much’. I was shocked and disgusted – and he knew how young I was.”

There was no escape. Lucy, who did not wish to reveal her surname, was assigned to his table, so she had to keep returning throughout the evening. He tried persistently to give her his phone number, ignoring her objections. “He wasn’t being discreet about it. He was doing that in front of all the other guests. All of them were just laughing. It was horrible.”

Secret filming of misbehaviour at the Presidents Club charity event in London’s Dorchester hotel. Photograph: FT/BBC

That evening was one of the worst that Lucy experienced at the lavish banquets and dinners thrown under the umbrella of the City of London and the Livery Companies – the city’s powerful network of male-dominated ancient trade guilds.

Last week the City found itself drawn into an incendiary row over harassment experienced by “hostesses” at last week’s Presidents Club annual dinner in Mayfair. The Bank of England launched an inquiry into how “afternoon tea” with its governor, Mark Carney, came to be auctioned, only to discover it was a hand-me-down from the Lord Mayor’s charity appeal. Of the 360 guests at the club, the vast majority were businessmen and investors operating within the Square Mile.

Questions are now being raised about the treatment of serving staff and hostesses at the opulent white and black-tie dinners, where hundreds of people gather each month in grand dining halls dotted around the City. “It is mostly men, and they’re members of the club, so there’s this sense of entitlement,” said Lucy. “I had no idea about where I could complain. It was never mentioned in training. None of it was talked about.”

A new draft code of conduct for members of the City of London Corporation – the Square Mile’s governing authority – makes no mention of harassment, sexual or otherwise. The code also appears to impose a three-month cut-off point for complaints to be made following an alleged incident.

Lucy says she felt trapped by her financial situation. “I didn’t really have a choice but to work there as they are one of the few places paying London living wage. But if I’m on a zero-hours contract, how do you think I’m being protected? I’m not. It would be super-easy for them to be like ‘sorry we don’t have any work for you’, which they definitely did for other people.”

According to Lucy, the sort of harassment she experienced is commonplace. But she claims the company she works for was more concerned with retaining clients and their lucrative contracts than protecting the welfare and dignity of their staff. “They don’t care about us. Even if most of us quit they’ll just hire more students,” she said. “The endless harassment is enabled by our precarious working conditions. It’s so easy to get the labour, and we’ve got no protection – nothing.”

For critics of the City, the code is a shocking example of how an influential sector of society is failing to show leadership. “It beggars belief that the City of London thinks it has no need of a sexual harassment workplace policy. But it is far from being alone in both failing to give contractual protection and dealing with the underlying problem,” said Sophie Walker, Women’s Equality Party leader.

A corporation spokesperson said: “Harassment of any kind is completely unacceptable in the City of London Corporation or anywhere else. Any reported allegations of harassment will be properly and robustly investigated.”

It is not only the City which finds its culture and practices under intense scrutiny this weekend. The guest list of the now infamous Presidents Club dinner featured a roll call of well-known bankers, entrepreneurs and celebrities. Of the 21 tables at the black-tie event, 10 were sponsored by property groups. Invited industry figures included Ian Hawksworth, chief executive of Capital & Counties, a FTSE 250-listed company; Paul White, chairman of real estate fund manager Frogmore; David Pears of the property magnate family and Gary Hersham, managing director of upmarket estate agents Beauchamp Estates. It is not known whether any of them attended.

In 2016 the property magazine Estates Gazette said the industry needed to clean up its act after prostitutes were seen to be doing “brisk business” at Mipim, a four-day networking event held in Cannes. “It wasn’t subtle and it wasn’t discreet – in fact, it could hardly have been more obvious,” the article said, pointing out that sex workers had used the event’s hashtag to attract business.

Liz Hamson, the editor of industry magazine Property Week, used her column last week to thunder at the Presidents Club event: “If there ever was a time and a place for such a men-only gathering, that time has passed. My hope is that it also marks the beginning of the end of the behaviour associated with it. A chill wind will be blowing through people’s Mipim plans.”

Meanwhile, the industry which supports such dinners and events has been trying to minimise the fallout from the Financial Times’ investigation.

Caroline Dandridge, the founder of the Artista agency that provided the hostesses for the Presidents Club function, and lists dozens of bluechip companies as clients, has gone to ground. The company’s offer to clients was apparent from its website, which featured pictures of women dressed in schoolgirl uniforms and hotpants. Dandridge has also posted videos of women posing on glitter balls and dancing in their underwear. The 55-year-old, who failed to respond to repeated inquiries from the Observer, has boasted of working with high-profile clients including luxury watchmakers Breitling, champagne house Möet Hennessy, Bentley, Barclays and the Economist.

But the firm’s former clients, when contacted by the Observer, were quick to distance themselves from Artista, including those who had been listed as providing testimonials. A typical response came from the aerospace company Honeywell, which said it did not have a record of working with the agency in recent years but was continuing to look into the matter.

Ascot racecourse – which was listed by Artista as saying its “girls” looked after guests “with the utmost charm and diligence” – said that it “does not use the firm directly but they have been used by third-party bookers at events from time to time”. The Economist did not respond to a request for comment.

One person willing to speak on Artista’s behalf was Nigel Greaves, owner of event stage specialists NGA Events and a friend of Dandridge, who described her as a “mother hen”. “There are boys and girls who can be hired for registration at conferences or handing out leaflets at exhibition stands,” he said of Artista. “They’re always very professional, very polite and well groomed, affable people. She [Dandridge] is very much a mother hen, in the sense that she looks after her staff. She is not one of those people who just hires and fires. She makes sure they do what is required but also ensures that nothing untoward is done to them.”

He didn’t believe the Presidents Club would have a major impact on the events scene, describing it as an isolated case. If the numbers are anything to go by, the bosses of Britain’s growing corporate hospitality industry will be hoping that he is right. The sector is now worth more than £1.2bn, according to trade body the Hotel Booking Agents Association. Within the sector’s ranks, a quick Google search for hostess agencies alone throws up a long list of companies with names like Exhibition Girls, Hostess World and Eye Candy, all offering databases full of attractive men and women to serve drinks and canapés and mingle with guests.

For Lucy, the future seems to be no more certain now than before the revelations about the Presidents Club. “You get talked at like you’re a piece of meat,” she said. “With men-only events it’s a safe haven for them. They’ve got no one to keep them in check. It’s really shitty. The work in itself is hard, you don’t get to rest, so if you get harassed on top, you don’t feel great about yourself.”


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PRN: Guoman's Royal Horseguards Hotel Serves up a Taste of Christmas

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LONDON, December 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --

Guoman Hotels is inviting guests to revel in the international flavours of Christmas by enjoying a 'Taste of Christmas' high tea at Guoman's historic five-star The Royal Horseguards, in London's Whitehall.

The festive-themed high tea selection has been created exclusively by the hotel's talented resident pastry chef Joanne Todd. Â The deliciously cosmopolitan afternoon tea menu incorporates yuletide tastes from around the world, available for visitors to snuggle up with in front of the fireplace in the hotel's romantic lounge which is decorated with festive garlands and a traditional Christmas tree.

Joanne has brought Christmas flavours from around the world and gift-wrapped them perfectly, with the menu including German mini stollen topped with fresh red currants and a shard of curved black and white marble-effect chocolate; a French ginger bread macaroon with vanilla cream; and American cookies infused with ginger. For a taste of the Far East, guests can try the traditional English Christmas pudding, wrapped in a Chinese wonton style pastry. Visitors enjoying the high tea can also indulge in the Scandinavian cranberry vodka jelly and Swiss white chocolate snowball.

To round off festivities, diners can finish with spiced scones and minced pies served with clotted cream and homemade preserves.

The Royal Horseguards hotel also offers guests a selection of Christmas packages from the beautiful Christmas Day Lunch to the special New Year's Eve 'Midnight Revels' package in which guests can ring in the New Year over a 6 course menu served in the swanky Gladstone Library overlooking the midnight fireworks display at the London Eye. Â

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An urban hotel in London is a gathering and flash point for legal and illegal immigrants attempting to cobble together their lives in a new country. The immigrants include Senay, a Turkish woman, and a Nigerian doctor named Okwe who is working as a night porter at the hotel. The pair discover the hotel is a front for all sorts of clandestine activities. Their only wish is to avoid possible deportation. Okwe becomes more entangled in the goings on when he is called to fix a toilet in one of the rooms. He discovers the plumbing has been clogged by a human heart.

The Bees

IMDb: 3.3

1978

92 min

Corporate smuggling of South American killer bees into the United States results in huge swarms terrorizing the northern hemisphere. A small team of scientists work desperately to destroy the threat, but the bees soon mutate into a super-intelligent species that threatens the world.

Dont Look In The Basement 2

IMDb: 4.0

2015

88 min

In 1972, the patients and doctors at Stephens Sanitarium were brutally murdered. Over forty years later, the only known survivor returns only to find the ghosts of the past have not been resting in peace.

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IMDb: 6.6

2016

98 min

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The Reckoning

IMDb: 6.6

2002

112 min

In 14th Century England, this tale of murder and mystery follows a fugitive priest who falls in with a troupe of actors. As they Arrive in a small town, the actors encounter a woman bing sentenced to death for practicing witchcraft and murder. Discarding the expected bible stories, the actors stage a performance based on the crime. Through the performance of the play, they discover a mystery.

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IMDb: 6.3

2016

109 min

GOLDSTONE, the award-winning new feature from Australian auteur Ivan Sen (Mystery Road), is a complex and stylish crime thriller that explores themes of racism, human trafficking, police corruption, corporate malfeasance, and the trampling of indigenous people’s rights. On the trail of a missing person, troubled indigenous detective Jay Swan (Aaron Pedersen, Mystery Road) finds himself in the small mining town of Goldstone, where he is arrested for drunk driving by local cop Josh (Alex Russell, CBS’s “S.W.A.T.”). When Jay’s motel room is blasted with gun fire, it becomes clear that something larger is at play. While struggling to overcome their mutual distrust, Jay and Josh uncover a web of crime and corruption, which leads directly to the town’s cold-blooded Mayor (two-time Oscar nominee Jacki Weaver, Silver Linings Playbook) and its smarmy gold mine director (David Wenham, Lord of the Rings).

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Johnny Got His Gun

IMDb: 7.9

1971

111 min

Joe, a young American soldier, is hit by a mortar shell on the last day of World War I. He lies in a hospital bed in a fate worse than death – a quadruple amputee who has lost his arms, legs, eyes, ears, mouth and nose. Unbeknown to his doctors, he remains conscious and able to think, thereby reliving his life through strange dreams and memories and unable to distinguish whether he is awake or dreaming. He remains frustrated by his situation, until one day when Joe discovers a unique way to communicate with his caregivers.