British Transplant Games - Belfast August 2011
The British Transplant Games may have an odd-sounding title, but it has a very serious purpose: raising both funds and awareness about organ donation. The Games are held in a different city in the UK each year; this year, they will be in Belfast from the 4th-7th of August, at familiar sporting venue...
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Stonehaven Festival July 2011
Stonehaven, the coastal town in Northeast Scotland, is a charming suburb about fifteen miles south of Aberdeen. Not only is Stonehaven the birthplace of Robert William Thomson, inventor of the pneumatic tyre, it has hosted, for the past twenty-three years, the Stonehaven Folk Festival, which has bec...
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Brighton Beer Festival July 2011
Even though the biggest beer festivals are in Germany, Britain has some big ones too. One is the Brighton Beer Festival, which will take place between Thursday 14 July and Sunday 17 July, right on the seafront at the Old Paddling Pool next to Brighton’s West Pier. In Britain, beer festivals ar...
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Birmingham Carnival 2011
After an absence of seventeen years, the Birmingham Carnival is finally returning this August to what many consider its spiritual home, Handsworth Park. The carnival began in the Park in 1984, but moved to the streets of Hansworth in 1994 and then to Perry Park in 1999 because it had grown so ...
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West Cork Literary Festival 2011
West Cork in southwest Ireland boasts some of the country’s most breathtaking scenery, and it also hosts one of the most prestigious literary festivals in the UK and Ireland—the West Cork Literary Festival, which will take place between Sunday 3 July and Saturday 9 July this year. This y...
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