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Introducing London

Sprawled endlessly along the magical banks of the Thames, London has been a beacon for people around the world for centuries, seamlessly absorbing their colourful influences while remaining quintessentially British.

It’s a trick not every city can pull off and yet London has been excelling at the same game for almost a thousand years. Immigrants, the city’s life blood, continue to pour in, providing London with a constantly self-renewing source of energy and dynamism, while the increasingly confident Mayor of London continues to give a much needed local focus to solving the city’s problems, something he’s been doing with not inconsiderable success.

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St Paul's Cathedral.
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St Paul's Cathedral.

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  • The Photographers' Gallery.
  • Wellington Arch.
  • Traffic on Tower Bridge at night.
  • People in Regents Park on frosty morning with BT Tower in background.
  • Overhead of River Thames from Waterloo Bridge.
  • Trafalgar Square fountains at night.
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