Stand up for BBC 6Music and the Asian Network

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            Here's 7 ways in which you can support these two vital radio stations - which as you're probably well aware, the BBC are considering for closure. Both stations have supported unsigned and newly-signed artists and taken them from great grassroots support at local, community and online radio (often the [...]

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Hole In The Neighbourhood: Part 1 – The Art of Tea

It’s far enough away from the Pitchers and Lettuces of this world, and counts estate agents and newsagents amongst its unlikely neighbours.

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Fugitive Motel Travel Diaries: Oh, Canada, Part 2 – Vancouver

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We had a cocktail and some lovely tasting beer in the first bar we frequented, [and] being the geeks we are, we enjoyed a light round or two of the game Yahtzee.

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Fugitive Motel Travel Diaries: Coming To America – Part 5 – Seattle

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With the aforementioned earnest-flute man standing by, eyes closed in rapture, singing and finger-clicking along, it proved somewhat difficult to be a mature audience. Catherine joined in the harmonising in order to relieve any energy which might otherwise had manifested into a Grade 1 giggly-fit, but I instead chose to stare into the Washington State landscape.

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Fugitive Motel Travel Diaries: Coming To America, Part 4 – LA, Las Vegas and San Francisco

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Santa Monica beach was brill, and we hired bikes and felt like I was in The OC. Plus, all the Baywatch lifeguards and musclemen on the beach were hilarious.

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Fugitive Motel Travel Diaries: Coming to America, Part 3 – Fort Worth, San Antonio, and the road to Los Angeles

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Still not sure what a honky tonk is, but we went to one. Think a big barn dance with games machines, a bull ring, multiple bars and people dressed as cowboys.

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Fugitive Motel Travel Diaries: Coming To America, Part 2: Chicago and St Louis

They drove us to a Mexican restaurant, where a suspicious Martina ‘Columbo’ Booth here kept querying them about their wives, in a seeming attempt to gauge their authenticity.

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Fugitive Motel Travel Diaries: Coming To America, Part 1: New York City and Washington, DC

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We played at being FBI agents, and were thus ID'd a ridiculous number of times.

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Fugitive Motel Travel Diaries: Oh, Canada, Part 1: Toronto and Niagara Falls

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In the spirit of those intrepid travellers who have gone before them, Catherine Bolsover and Martina Booth brave suspicious immigration officers, over-zealous New York nurses and dodgy Texans to discover just where North America's at in 2007, starting their trip in Toronto, Canada.

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Faded Seaside Glamour: Part 1 – St Anne’s On Sea

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Its charm is in the pace; it’s a break from the city. Rather than party-hard Manchester, how about tuppeny bit machines in a seemingly abandoned pier? In fact, the pier is one of the main attractions of the place.

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