F-TYPE Gains All-Wheel Drive and Manual Transmission Options as the Range Grows from Six to 14 Derivatives

Brits prove their generosity over the Christmas period, as almost a third of the British have donated food to vulnerable people in need. Despite the chaos and excitement of the festive period, almost a third (32%) of the British public have remembered vulnerable people in need by generously donating food to those in need across
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David Beckham Attends British Brand Belstaff’s Flagship Store Opening Leather Clad Beckham & Celebrity Guests Celebrate Belstaff Bond Street Flagship Store   David Beckham, David Gandy, Jemma Kidd (Mortington), Jodie Kidd and Pixie Lott, celebrated global British luxury lifestyle brand Belstaff’s newest flagship store in London, at 131-135 New Bond Street. In line with the
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A Hundred Reasons to Laugh I read that a child laughs 400 times a day on the average, while an adult laughs only 15 times. Which puzzles me – what do you think the children are laughing at? During one particularly dark period of my life I didn’t laugh even 15 times a day. Not
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Do You Believe In You? Did you know that Albert Einstein could not speak until he was four years old and did not read until he was seven? His parents and teachers worried about his mental ability. Or that Beethoven’s music teacher said about him, “As a composer he is hopeless”? What if young Ludwig
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In more modern times Croydon has developed an important centre for shopping, with the construction of the Whitgift Centre, which opened in 1969. The Fairfield Halls arts centre and event venue opened in 1962. The Warehouse Theatre opened in 1977. The 1990s saw further changes intended to give the town a more attractive image. These
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A growing town As the town continued to grow it became especially popular as a pleasant leafy residential suburb for members of the Victorian middle classes, who could commute to the City of London by fast train in 15 minutes. In 1883 Croydon was incorporated as a borough. In 1889 it became a county borough,
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Industrial Revolution and the railway The development of Brighton as a fashionable resort in the 1780s increased Croydon’s role as a significant halt for stage coaches on the road south of London. At the beginning of the 19th century, Croydon became the terminus of two pioneering commercial transport links with London. The first, opened in
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Early history There is a plate recording a Bronze Age settlement on Croham Hurst. In addition there is evidence of a Roman settlement in the area on the London to Brighton Way Roman road, and a 5th to 6th century pagan Saxon cemetery. In the late Saxon period it was the centre of a large
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