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23 Nov
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St Pancras International is not just a railway station, it is a permanent home for the high-speed terminus to Ashford thanks to Southeastern, the Continent thanks to Eurostar, and with its accompanying five star Renaissance Hotel, it may well be the grandest railway station in the world.

Dressed in towering and exuberant Victorian red-brick and coloured stone, this dazzling piece of Gothic architecture looks reminiscent of a Cathedral with its clock tower and spiralling turrets.

Its sprawling interior is a hub for transport both overground and underground, but it is also a hub for humanity: around 48 million travellers and visitors per year set off or stay put to enjoy the retail, dining and cultural opportunities.

Originally built as the Midland railway in 1863 it housed Sir William Barlow’s train shed which looked awesome with high arches made of iron and glass and was one of the great engineering feats of the Victorian age. By 1873 the accompanying hotel Midland Grand Hotel was completed.

Once earmarked for demolition, it was restored instead and in 2007 it became the frontage to a vast gateway for High Speed 1 (HS1), the speedy rail service between Britain and mainland Europe and together with Southeastern provides the UK’s first high speed (140 miles per hour) domestic train service from Ashford in Kent to London in just 28 minutes.

As a departure or arrival point, it would be hard to find one more pleasing. Or to experience one with so much sociability. Fortnum & Mason, Hamleys, Gant, Thomas Pink, John Lewis and Benugo are amongst the many retailers and eateries that have a home at St Pancras.

“St Pancras is a station for our times,” said Will Gordon, Marketing Manager at HS1. “This station has become a retail, social and cultural destination in its own right.”

With constant investment, St Pancras has elevated the everyday travel experience into something extraordinary with well-known high-street names and boutique independent retailers. On its upper concourse, The Grand Terrace, is Europe’s longest champagne bar. Downstairs at The Arcade are thirty three familiar outlets including Accessorize, Cath Kidston, Fat Face, Dune and John Lewis and 24 food outlets from Patisserie Valerie to Searcys. By the main entrance there is an authentic Farmer’s market.

The accompanying hotel, the St Pancras Renaissance Hotel adds its own style of glamour with its spa and a clutch of diverse restaurants. It’s a surprisingly serene space.

Had St Pancras actually been knocked down, it’s hard to imagine that anything better than this gorgeous, vibrant landmark on King’s Cross’ Euston Road, could possibly have given this part of London a better boost.

Or indeed the commuters from Ashford a better way into London.

Meet the Makeup Artist Whose Bold New Designer

06 Aug
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Hamilton Island in the Whitsunday archipelago enjoys tropical climate and is right off the Great Barrier Reef – perhaps the world’s greatest natural wonder.

It’s not unusual to find entire seaside towns or destinations with natural beauty that have either evolved into or have been created by design as adult playgrounds.

To say this is true of Hamilton Island would perhaps be an unfairly bland statement for three unique reasons: its status as part of the Whitsunday archipelago, its tropical climate and its position right off Queensland’s Great Barrier Reef – perhaps the world’s greatest natural wonder.

Hamilton Island is one of 74 Whitsunday Islands whose evolution into an inhabited island started some 8000 years when the Ngaro Aborginal tribe called it home. It was then discovered by Captain Cook in 1770 while he was charting Australia’s coastline – he reputedly named the island after Lady Hamilton. The island was bought in 2003 by world renowned winemaker Robert Oatley who developed one third of it with hotels, restaurants and bars leaving the rest of the landscape in its pristine natural state.

The entrepreneur is also an acclaimed yachtsman and so he created the Hamilton Island Yacht Club which he founded in 2009 and it became a challenger for the America’s cup in 2014.

Hamilton Island is the only island in the Great Barrier Reef with its own commercial jet airport. You can get there with a commercial jet, private jet or a helicopter, itself an exciting experience, and from the airport it’s a buggy ride to your accommodation.

Indeed, buggies are the mode of transport around the island. The most luxurious accommodation is qualia – a Latin word meaning “a collection of deeper sensory experiences” – located on a peninsula on the island’s northern tip. The complex has 60 architect-designed pavilions within a forest of gum and palm trees. Many of them have infinity pools with stunning views spanning over the Whitsunday Islands.

There are less expensive accommodation options too such as Palm Bungalows, Reef View Hotel or Private Holiday Homes.

And though there are plenty of gorgeous spots to sunbathe, there are also compelling reasons to explore. After-all, the Great Barrier Reef and Whitehaven Beach are easy to reach and a myriad of trails will bring you up close with the fauna and flora of the island.

There are plenty of sports on offer too including golf, tennis and a small wildlife park that the kids tend to love, especially if you sprinkle in a trip to the bowling alley, go-kart track and mini-golf.

There are several shops and restaurants in the marina where bird life is vibrant and friendly, in particular the wild cockatoos and rainbow lorikeets who come to inspect diners during the day.

Meet the Woman Behind Cool Ethical Label Reformation

03 Sep
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Look at the sunset, life is amazing, life is beautiful, life is what you make it. You see the hedges, how I got it shaped up? It’s important to shape up your hedges, it’s like getting a haircut, stay fresh. Lion! You see the hedges, how I got it shaped up? It’s important to shape up your hedges, it’s like getting a haircut, stay fresh. We don’t see them, we will never see them. To succeed you must believe. When you believe, you will succeed.

The key to more success is to get a massage once a week, very important, major key, cloth talk. The key to more success is to get a massage once a week, very important, major key, cloth talk. It’s important to use cocoa butter. It’s the key to more success, why not live smooth? Why live rough? How’s business? Boomin. You see that bamboo behind me though, you see that bamboo? Ain’t nothin’ like bamboo. Bless up. Surround yourself with angels.

Celebrate success right, the only way, apple. Celebrate success right, the only way, apple. I’m giving you cloth talk, cloth. Special cloth alert, cut from a special cloth. Put it this way, it took me twenty five years to get these plants, twenty five years of blood sweat and tears, and I’m never giving up, I’m just getting started. Always remember in the jungle there’s a lot of they in there, after you overcome they, you will make it to paradise. Learning is cool, but knowing is better, and I know the key to success. You smart, you loyal, you a genius.

I’m giving you cloth talk, cloth. Special cloth alert, cut from a special cloth. Egg whites, turkey sausage, wheat toast, water. Of course they don’t want us to eat our breakfast, so we are going to enjoy our breakfast. Wraith talk. They don’t want us to eat. You see the hedges, how I got it shaped up? It’s important to shape up your hedges, it’s like getting a haircut, stay fresh. We don’t see them, we will never see them. Major key, don’t fall for the trap, stay focused. It’s the ones closest to you that want to see you fail.

Yes you can retire at 40 birthday

03 Sep
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I’m giving you cloth talk, cloth. Special cloth alert, cut from a special cloth. Surround yourself with angels, positive energy, beautiful people, beautiful souls, clean heart, angel. We don’t see them, we will never see them. Egg whites, turkey sausage, wheat toast, water. Of course they don’t want us to eat our breakfast, so we are going to enjoy our breakfast. Find peace, life is like a water fall, you’ve gotta flow. I told you all this before, when you have a swimming pool, do not use chlorine, use salt water, the healing, salt water is the healing.

The ladies always say Khaled you smell good, I use no cologne. Cocoa butter is the key. How’s business? Boomin. It’s on you how you want to live your life. Everyone has a choice. I pick my choice, squeaky clean. The ladies always say Khaled you smell good, I use no cologne. Cocoa butter is the key. The other day the grass was brown, now it’s green because I ain’t give up. Never surrender. They never said winning was easy. Some people can’t handle success, I can.

Look at the sunset, life is amazing, life is beautiful, life is what you make it. You see the hedges, how I got it shaped up? It’s important to shape up your hedges, it’s like getting a haircut, stay fresh. In life there will be road blocks but we will over come it. The first of the month is coming, we have to get money, we have no choice. It cost money to eat and they don’t want you to eat. How’s business? Boomin. Cloth talk.

Special cloth alert. Surround yourself with angels, positive energy, beautiful people, beautiful souls, clean heart, angel. Give thanks to the most high. Surround yourself with angels. Let’s see what Chef Dee got that they don’t want us to eat. They don’t want us to eat. Always remember in the jungle there’s a lot of they in there, after you overcome they, you will make it to paradise. The other day the grass was brown, now it’s green because I ain’t give up. Never surrender.

The key is to drink coconut, fresh coconut, trust me. Every chance I get, I water the plants, Lion! They will try to close the door on you, just open it. You smart, you loyal, you a genius. A major key, never panic. Don’t panic, when it gets crazy and rough, don’t panic, stay calm. Egg whites, turkey sausage, wheat toast, water. Of course they don’t want us to eat our breakfast, so we are going to enjoy our breakfast.

It’s important to use cocoa butter. It’s the key to more success, why not live smooth? Why live rough? Wraith talk. They will try to close the door on you, just open it. Hammock talk come soon. We don’t see them, we will never see them. The weather is amazing, walk with me through the pathway of more success. Take this journey with me, Lion! Don’t ever play yourself. Every chance I get, I water the plants, Lion!

Amazing Maria ends Ervedya’s unbeaten record in Prix

13 Aug
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Amazing Maria continued her remarkable summer resurgence on Sunday when taking the Group One Prix Rothschild at Deauville under a confident ride from leading French jockey Olivier Peslier.On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness of will, which is the same as saying through shrinking from toil and pain.

These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish. In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammelled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided. But in certain circumstances and owing to the claims of duty or the obligations of business it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be repudiated and annoyances accepted. The wise man therefore always holds in these matters to this principle of selection: he rejects pleasures to secure other greater pleasures, or else he endures pains to avoid worse pains.

But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful.

Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure?

The quiet dresser v the street style star – can they swap

07 Aug
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What happens when Valentine Fillol-Cordier, a chic Parisian stylist who loves ‘intellectual’ clothes, switches wardrobes with Susie Bubble, a London fashion blogger who champions ‘wayward’ young designers? Get ready for a style swap… Ali Morris pays a visit.On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness of will, which is the same as saying through shrinking from toil and pain.

These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish. In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammelled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided. But in certain circumstances and owing to the claims of duty or the obligations of business it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be repudiated and annoyances accepted. The wise man therefore always holds in these matters to this principle of selection: he rejects pleasures to secure other greater pleasures, or else he endures pains to avoid worse pains.

But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful.

Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure?