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...The DCMS has allocated a further £250k to providing open-air chess tables in parks throughout the country, and there are numerous reports of these being successfully introduced....
...The world body Fide ranks England only 18th among the strongest nations in the open category, and 24th among women....
...The quarter-finals of the chess.com Speed Championship include Nakamura v Levon Aronian at 2000 GMT on Monday December 12, Carlsen v Fabiano Caruana at 1800 GMT on Tuesday 13, and Wesley So v Maxime Vachier-Lagrave...
...and local shops, and Peckham Levels, where a repurposed car park has become an artists’ workspace....
...“I’m sorry,” I shouted at Honor Oak Park. “I can’t hear you. There’s a lot of noise here. I’m on the runway.”...
...The wide-open landscape of this border country — especially the rolling forest of holm oaks known collectively as dehesa — was remarkably lacking in traffic, ugly modern buildings, or bothersome human presence...
...The eggplant “parmesan” sandwich was enough to keep me coming back every day during my LA stay, and I wish they’d open up a restaurant in Paris or London – I’d happily become a vegan if they did!...
...Its garden is a relaxed mix of semi-formal beds with herbs, wild-flower areas, woven hazel and Welsh oak gates and garden furniture....
...“It’s an interesting circular economy story,” says V&A festivals curator Meneesha Kellay....
...The revival began with the second conversion of Les Halles in 2016, this time into a park and passable shopping mall with an open, canopied roof....
...Later we end up in the library — a shack-like structure built of repurposed wood and corrugated sheets, half-open to the elements....
...The pretty street is home to one of my favourite pubs, The Royal Oak, and the famous Sunday flower market that is another weekend ritual for east Londoners....
...“I’ve heard of five closures happening this week,” he told me on Thursday from his almost empty bar, which sits under gnarled oak beams next to a large open fire, still lit for now....
...Against the opposite wall stood one of Prouvé’s Bahut BA12 bent-steel and oak sideboards. And everything was illuminated by one of Serge Mouille’s 1953 Lampadaire Droit floor lamps....
...For a real safari among Mayfair’s biggest beasts, head for the chain cafés behind Green Park station....
...The new Design Museum opens on November 24; designmuseum.org. Photographs: Max Creasy...
...Dear Sir David It was great to meet you this morning and thank you both for visiting me in Islington and showing me all three of your splendid London homes — in Chelsea, Piccadilly and Hyde Park....
...the nine days, the V&A is the festival’s official nerve centre....
...Using sandblown glass and oak and with a curvaceous, almost feminine form, Hayon gives this traditional Turkish symbol a strong contemporary feel....
...“As a young man I was offended by the romanticism of the great Hyde Park war memorials, and now I find them beautiful and moving.”...
...Victoria and Albert Museum The V&A is the central hub of the LDF. There are several events taking place at the museum including “God Is In The Details”....
...He was with Michelle Obama at a fundraiser in Los Angeles this week: Mr Sherman, who naturally lives in Sherman Oaks, was not....
...Between Kew and Hampton the Thames meanders through a unique landscape of parks, palaces and working communities....
...If there is a congregation, I will find a seat, open a prayer book and know my place right away....
...Borg retired abruptly from the tennis tour after being beaten by McEnroe at the US Open in 1981....
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