The Wallace Collection is a national museum in an historic London town house, which displays the wonderful works of art collected in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by the first four Marquesses of Hertford and Sir Richard Wallace, the son of the 4th Marquess. It was bequeathed to the British nation by Sir Richard's widow, Lady Wallace, in 1897.
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Some of the most popular areas in Bohemian west London are Portobello Road, which has dozens of antiques shops and galleries and also the famous Electric Cinema and Little Venice, which celebrates its 30 year as a floating centre of creativity on the Grand Union Canal. Don’t mistake it for a children’s treat: the shows are fiendishly clever and the puppets always arresting. Leighton House is at the centre of the Holland Park artists’ colony; it was built in the late 19 century and has been magnificently restored. During the summer there is open-air Opera in Holland Park while Shepherd's Bush boasts the state of the art Westfield Shopping Centre. Cultural visits can be made to artist William Hogarth's House and Kensington Palace, home of Princess Diana.
Watch out on August bank holiday weekend as the Notting Hill Carnival hits the streets, with steel bands, jerk chicken, samba schools and, ideally, late summer sun entertaining a million revellers as the parade threads their way between 40 sound stages. Sporting venues include Queen's Park Rangers FC, Westway Climbing Wall and Westbourne Terrace's skateboarding paradise.
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British schoolgirl assaulted on school trip to Iceland
A viral video shows a black girl being assaulted by a white woman in a corridor.
Police in Iceland are investigating after a British schoolgirl was slapped and chased by a tour guide in a hotel corridor.
The schoolgirl, 13, who attended Harris Girls’ Academy, was assaulted whilst on a school trip to Iceland to see the Northern Lights. The incident occurred at Hotel Örk, Hveragerdi on 13th October.