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• Sports car sent to Britain from Gulf 'for service'

  - 2008-07-31

  LONDON AFP — A high-powered Lamborghini sports car was sent on a 6,500-mile (10,460-kilomtre) round-trip to Britain simply to have a service, sparking fury from environmentalists, The Sun newspaper said Thursday. The 190,000-pound (241,000-euro, 376,000-dollar) black and gold car was put on a regular Qatar Airways flight to London's...

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• London road price scheme fuels election debate

  - 2008-04-27

  LONDON AFP — Sitting in his office in the Fulham district of west London, Martin Kadhim has reluctantly accepted his fate: his high performance Porsche Cayenne will just have to go if a new car congestion charge is introduced. "They've been great fun, but it's time for them to...

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• Chanel chooses car park roof for 'mobile' art show

  - 2008-02-26

  HONG KONG AFP — Top fashion brand Chanel unveiled a global art exhibition in Hong Kong Tuesday, choosing the distinctly unglamourous setting of a car park roof. The show, featuring works based on Chanel's emblematic quilted handbags, opens to the public on Wednesday and is housed in a giant,...

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• Sienna Miller tells court of fears in 'frenzied' paparazzi pursuit

  - 2008-02-11

  LONDON AFP — British actress Sienna Miller told a London court Monday how she felt "hunted" by "frenzied" paparazzi photographers as they pursued her home after last year's BAFTA awards. Miller was giving evidence at the trial of Otis Ferry, who was cleared of criminal damage after removing keys...

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• Diana split with Dodi before death crash: friend

  - 2008-01-07

  LONDON AFP — Weeks before her death Princess Diana said that her relationship with Dodi Fayed was finished, a jury heard Monday as the inquest into the couple's fatal car crash resumed. Speaking at the first session of the inquest since the Christmas break, Rodney Turner, a friend of...

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• 'Oh my God', said dying Diana

  - 2007-10-25

  LONDON AFP — Princess Diana repeatedly said "Oh my God" as she lay beside her boyfriend Dodi Fayed in the crashed car in a Paris road tunnel in 1997, the inquest into their death heard Thursday. The London probe into the couple's death also heard how a photographer shouted,...

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• London 2012 Olympics chiefs plan radical car ban: report

  - 2007-10-22

  LONDON AFP — The organisation charged with developing the infrastructure for the London 2012 Olympics is planning a radical car ban for all of the games' major venues across Britain, The Times reported in an early edition of its Tuesday paper. Citing a preview of the travel plan it...

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• Newspapers shun latest William and Kate shots

  - 2007-10-06

  LONDON AFP — Most newspapers refused to publish photographs of Prince William and his girlfriend Saturday after the young royal complained of aggressive and threatening behaviour as they left a nightclub. William's spokesman Paddy Harverson said Friday that the 25-year-old was concerned after paparazzi photographers on motorbikes chased the...

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• British couple's 22-year motel stop

  - 2007-09-11

  LONDON AFP — A British couple have shacked up in a budget roadside motel for more than 20 years because they love never having to do the laundry or cooking, they said Tuesday. David Davidson, 79, and his wife, Jean, 70, first tried out a Travelodge hotel while visiting...

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• Diana inquest jury to visit Paris crash site

  - 2007-09-05

  LONDON AFP — The jury on the inquest into Diana, princess of Wales's death will visit the scene of her fatal car crash in Paris, the final preliminary hearing determined Wednesday. The trip will take place shortly after the inquest starts on October 2. The 12 members of...

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