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  Evening Standard

  Most expensive streets: the roads with the highest house prices of the decade

  The roads where homes have sold for the most money since 2011.

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  The Independent

  Albert Roux: French chef who brought a culinary revolution to Britain

  He and his brother Michel’s Le Gavroche restaurant was the first in the UK to get three Michelin stars

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  The Guardian

  An ugly truth: is cinema finally facing up to Britain's colonial past?

  An ugly truth: is cinema finally facing up to Britain's colonial past?. The Nightingale is a rare attempt to depict the brutal reality of British imperial rule. The industry must do more to tell it like it was

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  The Independent

  Why 1939 was the greatest year in film history

  On 7 April 1939, Samuel Goldwyn’s production of Emily Bronte’s famous novel Wuthering Heights was released, just one of 365 films produced in Hollywood alone in the year that many film scholars consider the greatest ever for cinema. It was certainly the peak for Hollywood’s Golden Age and the much maligned studio system ruled over by autocrats such as Louis B Mayer and Samuel Goldwyn. Perhaps it was just serendipity that so many classics were released in 1939 or just the inevitable culmination

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  Evening Standard

  First look at Leicester Square’s Odeon picture perfect revamp

  The art-deco cinema — which opened in 1937 with The Prisoner Of Zenda starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr and Madeleine Carroll — was closed for an 11-month, multi-million-pound renovation. The main six-metre-high screen was upgraded to Dolby Cinema, which has different speakers for different sounds and dual-laser projection to generate deeper blacks and richer colour.

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  The Telegraph

  Making waves: inside the Four Seasons Surf Club Miami 

  "Spectacular is the word for The Surf Club" ran a headline in the Miami Herald in November 1959. "Although some of the conservative set snub [it] as a glorified night club," gushed staff writer Betsy Buffington, "the Club itself makes no bones about what it is: an exclusive place to have FUN. Founded by the tyre tycoon Harvey Firestone, The Surf Club opened at the northern end of Miami Beach on New Year’s Eve 1930 and was an instant hit.

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