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Amesbury makes Stonehenge look like a new build
Archaeologists say that Amesbury where Stonehenge is located might date back to 8820 BC, making the town the longest continuously occupied settlement in Britain.
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27 New London Blue Badge Tourist Guides
27 successful candidates from the 2012-2014 London Blue Badge Course, pictured below were presented with their badges by Yvonne Leach, the President of the Institute of Tourist Guiding, at a ceremony at the Founding Museum on 9 April.
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Reception for new London Blue Badge Tourist Guides
On Thursday 20 March, 25 trainees attended the Association of Professional Tourist Guide (APTG) New Guides’ Reception organised by Sarah Speller. 23 Trainees had been on a “How many ways are there to do a the Guard Change?” walk with Owen Joseph in the afternoon.
Read more![Simon Russell Beale gives voice to Eduardo Paolozzi's Newton statue in the British Library piazza.](https://www.guidelondon.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Newton2_TinaEngstrom-370x230.jpg)
Talking Statues: Picking up the phone to Newton
Talking Statues is a project using playwrights, actors and mobile technology to put words into the mouths of several public statues around London and Manchester. The statues will begin to talk on 19 August and in order to hear them you need to swipe your smartphone over signs beneath the statues. Actors lending their voices to statues include Dominic West as Achilles in Hyde Park, Jeremy Paxman as John Wilkes in Fetter Lane and Patrick Stewart as the unknown soldier at Paddington Station.
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Ruth Polling: 2014 Blue Badge Tourist Guide of the Year Award Winner
Guide London speaks to Ruth Polling, who received the London Blue Badge Tourist Guide of the Year Award (Katrine Prince Memorial Prize) at the Blue Badge presentation ceremony at the Foundling Museum on 9 April.
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London more popular than Paris with 16.8million visitors
It’s official! London has welcomed over 16 million international visitors in one year for the first time in history, making it one of the most popular holiday destinations in the world.
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