Ajla Tomljanovic will play for the biggest title of her career in Birmingham on Sunday but Jordan Thompson’s dream of securing a Wimbledon seeding has been dashed after he injured his back during a tight semi-final loss at the Queen’s Club in London. Whether Alex de Minaur receives a coveted top 8 seeding for the...
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How Portugal Travel Industry Is Surging With Visa-free Access To 64 Countries Including Schengen Nations, USA, UK And Canada? – Travel And Tour World
Home » EUROPE » How Portugal Travel Industry Is Surging With Visa-free Access To 64 Countries Including Schengen Nations, USA, UK And Canada? Friday, June 21, 2024 Reading Time: 6 minutes Portugal visa-free policy boosts tourism, complementing a record year with significant growth in travel and infrastructure investments. Portugal’s visa-free entry policy, applicable to citizens...
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Seven things you didn’t know about Stonehenge – and how to visit
Ancient astronauts have docked here This claim gained popularity thanks to Erich von Däniken’s 1968 book Chariots of the Gods?, which claimed numerous monuments, including Stonehenge, may have been built by extraterrestrials. His hypothesis is based upon “interpretations” of Mayan iconography and mysterious landmarks around the world such as the Nazca Lines. The association of monoliths and...
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Urgent Warning for UK Travelers as Greece Faces Record Heatwave – Travel And Tour World
Home » EUROPE » Urgent Warning for UK Travelers as Greece Faces Record Heatwave Thursday, June 20, 2024 Reading Time: 2 minutes Greece’s record heatwave poses risks for tourists, with soaring temperatures expected this summer. Travelers must heed local advisories to stay safe. Greece Heatwave Hits Record: A Caution for Summer Travelers Greece is currently...
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Most news consumers suspicious of AI in journalism, survey shows
News consumers most opposed to use of AI for sensitive topics such as politics, report finds. Most news consumers in the United States and the United Kingdom would be uncomfortable with journalism produced mainly by artificial intelligence (AI), a survey has found. Only 23 percent of respondents in the US and 10 percent in the...
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How the ‘least cultured’ place in Britain reinvented itself
It seemed proper to start with the creative backstory, so I begin at the Silk Museum. In the 16th century, Macclesfield was renowned for making buttons. When it became fashionable to cover them in silk, ever-innovative Macc thrust itself into that industry, too. The first silk mill was established in 1743; at its peak, the...
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UK Trails Behind Europe in Technical Skills Proficiency, Coursera Report Finds
The U.K. is the 25th most technically proficient country in Europe, a new report by online course provider Coursera has found. It sits well behind other digital leaders in the region like Germany, France and Spain. Globally, the U.K. came 45th out of 109 countries, which is an improvement from last year’s 64th place; however,...
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UK: Conservative Election Manifesto Lacks Gambling References
Five years ago, in 2019, the UK’s Conservative Party released a manifesto, outlining a number of proposed changes. Those efforts played a key role in the launch of the gambling reform in the country which involved a review of the Gambling Act. Several years after the launch of the review, the Gambling Act White Paper...
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What dismal Oxford Street can learn from the rest of Europe
People say it was the pandemic that did it, but it’s just as easy to blame Topshop. Back in the 1990s and 2000s, the brand’s flagship store stood just outside the entrance to Oxford Circus tube station and was the epitome of Cool Britannia. At one point, Kate Moss posed stock-still in the window –...
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The Sussex town fighting to reopen its French-owned beach
“For some of us it has made it feel safer,” says local resident Abi Blanshard. “Some of the dark bits, the underpasses, you can be a bit reluctant to walk through. It just feels a little bit nicer, a bit cleaner, safer. My partner works down at the food bank and the people he’s spoken...
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UK Gambling Regulator to Face Northern & Shell in Court
The transition of the UK National Lottery license from Camelot to Allwyn was completed in February this year. Ultimately, Allwyn was picked as the winner of the license after a selection process led by the gambling regulator in the country, the UK Gambling Commission (UKGC). However, not everyone agreed with the procurement process which is...
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Sunak and Starmer clash in heated first debate of UK general election
The two men clash over tax, health and the cost of living in fractious debate that failed to land any knockout blows. The leaders of the United Kingdom’s two top political parties have faced off in their first live television debate of the election campaign, attacking each other over issues from tax to immigration and...