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...lean-to garage in Ravenscourt Park, an unassuming residential suburb in London's west, seems an unlikely setting for a copper still, but it's perfect for the artisanal barley vodka and dry gin being produced by two men whose names make them sound like the leads in a Merchant Ivory film - Stamford Galsworthy and Fairfax Hall...
...niche in the U.K. market for microdistilleries producing small-batch artisanal spirits. "We wanted to bring back the art of handcrafted spiritmaking," says Galsworthy. "So we developed a business plan, quit our jobs, sold our houses and went on the hunt for the first distiller's license granted in London in a generation." (See 10 things to do in London...
...gain votes, with candidates pledging to veto the country's membership. The current economic downturn is another factor, making the E.U. reluctant to take on another country struggling under recession. "The economic crisis has certainly made things worse in Europe," says Sevket Pamuk, professor of Turkish Studies at the London School of Economics. "For membership to occur, Turkey needs to change, but the current political mood in Europe needs to change as well." (Watch a TIME video on an unconventional Muslim minority in Turkey...
USAGE: "Visitors to London always have to be on the lookout for pickpockets, but now there's another, more positive phenomenon on the loose--putpockets. Aware that people are suffering during the economic crisis, 20 former pickpockets are now trawling London's tourist sites slipping money back into unsuspecting pockets...
...around the world and momentarily overshadowed his victory. In the book, she claimed that in her sleep aliens took her soul to the planet Venus, which she described as being very green. The headlines around the world were shocked, shocked, in a predictable way, with bad puns from London to New York, and even in neighboring South Korea, China and Taiwan. (See the top 10 colorful first spouses...