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Baltic Triangle is a creative development area, near Liverpool city centre, with a number of digital, food and drink and pop culture businesses, street art, and popular hipster venues. The idea started a few years ago as Independent Liverpool , a blog for a bit of fun to promote local ventures. From there, a membership card came with local currency, occasional food and drink festival, and it eventually turned the empty and derelict sites of the Baltic triangle into one of Liverpool’s most visited places.  Baltic Creative on 49 Jamaica Street, established in 2009, is the epicentre for supporting the area to thrive (upper left). Very Local Radio Station (upper right). The name Baltic Triangle most probably comes from Liverpool links as a port to the Baltic countries such as Sweden, Denmark, Poland where from timber was exported and stored here in the vast warehouses , of which remains are now converted into flats. (There is a Scandinavian church while approaching the area al...

The City of London is steeped deep in both, history and modernity. A wondrous entity where trade and money , and money trading , have played a major role in the financial power the city has created over the world.  It is a sovereign district , more like a state within a state , with own jurisdiction, police, rules and rituals dating back to the most ancient times.  Medieval London had two main districts - the City of London , where ordinary busy life had been run, and the City of Westminster , the seat of power - monarchy and government - now also the cultural West End .  Over time the ordinary citizens moved outwards from the City , creating all the adjacent London boroughs. The City has now only a few thousand residents but almost a million people travel here for work in the big financial institutions and services.  The eastern old part of the City is beaming with the " Ye olde " memoirs of the Merry Old England - the legendary medieval period, praised in...

Dried Cranberries - Not as Healthy as It Seems  These  dried cranberries  are supposed to be a healthy snack.  They taste strangely good, sour-sweet. Because the  added sugar  is in a huuuuge amount. Well, if you are at risk of diabetes, as we all are, you should take notice. Daily recommended amount of sugar is between 25 and 37 grams ( 6 to 9 teaspoons , for man and women, respectively).  This pack has 71 grams of sugar .  Many people devour it in one go. And they think they eat healthy food. What a scam! NEXT: Müller Greek Yogurt ... with Added Sugar Yoghurt  is good for your gut.  However, not in the case below.  The ' velvet ' taste is due to sugar being added - almost 10 grams for less than one serving .  It ruins not only its taste - but also any health claims .  Sugar  is a bigger problem than fat in today's obesity and diabetes epidemic . Mr Muller, your  yoghurt-like drink has to be bani...

Growing views against the use of plastic  do not mean that food manufactures will gladly comply with the new demand.  Some customers still choose to indulge themselves in a horrible plastic waste scheme.   The stores and manufacturers will produce for those ignorants a few things that should be on a ' blacklist ' of any eco-fellowship; not to mention simple reasoning that it should be banned straight away . With huge fees paid on this gross misconduct and sham. Because this is what it is. How can those people buy the abhorrent stuff and then watch happily, for example, David Attenborough pledge to reduce the use of plastic ?! We have witnessed such a situation. This is how hypocritical it gets: Mark & Spencers - You Should Shame Yourself Selling This: M&S Classic 10 One Cup Filters are a complete and utter shock-waste.   These are used ONLY for ONE coffee . Then it is thrown away; the plastic cup of a size of a cup is simply thrown AWAY . A huge amount of...

The Shard stands alone on the historic south bank of the River Thames , opposite the clusters of the City of London and Canary Wharf high-raisers, next to London Bridge station. Many had objectives to its presence when it was built but eventually it blended into modern London cityscape. The Shard is the tallest building in the United Kingdom with 95-storeys, over 300 metres (over 1000 ft) high. The top is sometimes completely invisible due to heavy London fog and it changes its appearance through the time of the day and seasons. Its construction began in 2009, completion in 2012, by Sellar Property Group owning 5 percent, the rest 95 percent belongs to the State of Qatar . Al Jazeera, the Qatari television is housed there. Other tenants include investments companies, recruitment consultancy, international law firm, marketing agency, publishing house, business school.  There are three restaurants, the Shangri-La Hotel and few residential apartments. The View...

Sherwood Rise Community Fair Keeping up the community spirit is difficult in a society where moving homes is so common. When you are in your 30s and you moved more than three times, you are not likely to feel the community spirit of your locality.  The Tin Forest So, the true magic and a trick is to keep a community spirit in a truly medieval manner ( in a positive, enchanting way) in a place where most of the households are on the 'move' - in and out. And this is what one can experience in some parts of England. Truly amazing, fan loving fairs. A variety of things to see, touch, eat. On a one sunny September afternoon we heard a rumble from a nearby 'green' place. Curious, we stuck out our noses along with the rest to see what's the noise all about. We have lived on the street for only two months now (moving in and out is our speciality).  Human Fruit Machine Just round the corner is a very small Hedley Villas Park on the Sherwood Rise area in Nottingham. Small but...

Among the vast plain of Cheshire, on the A56 way, south-west of Warrington, lays Daresbury , a two-streets tiny village of around 250 inhabitants. It would be a countryside sleepy surround if not the unconventional things that have been happening there. The village seems to have a knack for multi-dimensional exploration . First - it is the birthplace of Lewis Carroll, author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There , one of the first enigma and fantasy novels, having a huge impact on generations of readers to this day. He had been inspired by some local legends . On the opposite side of the A56 is a large scientific facility, Daresbury Laboratory . It is the UK's forefront in world-class and cutting-edge research in nuclear physics , computing, AI , bio-medicine, chemistry. It could be named 'the Local CERN ' as it also deals with the tiniest particles in the Universe and is  partnering with the CER...