BBC - London - Where I Live - Features - Tea and Coffee (#)
„1600-1800s For 200 years East India sailing ships returning from China brought regular supplies. Although the steam ships bringing teas from India, Ceylon and Africa frequently berthed further down river, their cargoes would be brought up as far as London Bridge in the Clipper ships during the 1880's by barges. This area became the centre of the UK tea trade. The London tea trade has conducted the business of unloading ships, marketing and blending on both sides of the Thames at London Bridge and although the tea auctions were held north of the river, the South Bank boasted the most prestigious warehousing facilities.“
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BBC Sport | In Depth | Cricket | India Grounds Guide
„Front Page | Cricket | England on Tour Introduction Madras Kanpur Ahmedabad Calcutta Bombay Mohali Bangalore Delhi Introduction If every nation was half as crazy about cricket as India, surely football would no longer be the world's biggest sport. Huge, noisy crowds greet virtually every game of cricket - let alone the international fixtures. Spectators cram into grounds - and if they can't get in they balance precariously on roofs, tree branches or any other vantage point available.“
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BBC News | BUSINESS | Coffee farmers 'face destitution'
„The report comes ahead of the first World Coffee Conference, a three-day gathering of leading figures in the industry in London, which begins on Thursday. Oxfam fails to address the fundamental economics of the coffee market in the long term British Coffee Association Oxfam is concerned at the growing disparity of wealth between different parts of the coffee industry, following a 60% drop in the value of the crop on international commodity markets in the last three years. The British Coffee Association has dismissed the report's findings at "too short term." Rich versus poor Oxfam says that, in real terms, coffee prices are lower than they have ever been. Click here to see the biggest coffee producing countries This, it says, is having devastating consequences for poor farmers in coffee growing countries.“
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„I ask for good reason. I'm sitting writing this column on my new, highly accessible, pocket PC, in a coffee bar on the ground floor of a well-known hospital in London. I'm here for a regular blood test. Annoyingly it has gone rather badly and they've had to give me a different kind of test, the results of which are not due for a couple of hours.“
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BBC - Mid Wales Fun and Freebies - Competitions - Coliseum Centenary Mug
„As part of the centenary celebrations, Ceredigion Museum has commissoned a limited edition bone china mug. It features the original design of the Coliseum's two Edwardian cast iron balconies and the dates are stamped on the base.“
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BBC - h2g2 - Lloyd's of London
„The most popular venues for trade were the numerous coffee houses in the city. Here the merchants would sell their wholesale goods to shopkeepers.It was also in these coffee houses that merchants would complain bitterly about the number of losses they were sustaining as a result of cargoes being lost at sea.Some businessmen, sensing an opportunity, began to make deals whereby they promised to reimburse to the merchants the value of the cargo if it did not arrive at port in a fit state for sale. In return for this insurance they demanded a premium. The value of the premium varied with the value of the cargo and, more importantly, with the risk being undertaken.“
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