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"Stansted Airport currently closed, Heathrow Airport currently closed, Luton and London City Airport closed, Gatwick Airport is not accepting any more airplanes at the moment" - this announcement might not be of particular interest, when you are sitting on your sofa or having a nice cappuccino in a cosy cafe, if you are airborne and heading towards London you might think differently. Sentences by our pilot like "We have enough fuel on board" and "we will reduce speed and hope Stansted Airport ground

I am usually not very fond of watching TV programs in the UK apart from football and occasionally some semi-realistic hunts for Britains next tycoons, but by the end of October rumours of a new program called Spooks broadcasted on BBC1 reached me. Having no TV set at home, I checked the BBC iplayer (an absolute brilliant invention!!!), which is the only way I can access British Television without much hassle.
The first episode didn't impress me that much apart from the fact that the main character, who

Be honest – when thinking about England, most peple think of its capital. Almost everybody who has been to the UK paid London a visit. That´s great, the city has undenyably a lot to give (and to take – especially one´s money). But what other places has the island to offer? Oxford, Cambridge with its marvelous colleges and its university tradion, alright, fair enough, beautiful cities but hardly insider tips ... I am speaking about places, travel guides are not dedicating half of their entries to.
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