Hugh Grant, as William Thacker, plays just an everyday British bloke (with a whole lot of hair) who owns a modest bookstore in the Notting Hill section of London.

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He told the jury that at the time of the alleged cover-up of Huhne's speeding offence, he had been dividing his time between homes in Greece and Notting Hill, west London, because of his business interests.

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In the 1950s Notting Hill became one of the main London magnets for new arrivals from the West Indies.

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She features on Communion's first compilation album and has appeared at one of Communion's gigs in London's Notting Hill Arts Centre.

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Last year, the channel introduced a new docu-soap Seven Days, in which viewers were able to follow the lives of people in London's Notting Hill as they happened.

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His medicine cabinets, and the entire pharmacy in this show (from 1997 to 2003, Mr. Hirst had a restaurant called "Pharmacy" in London's fashionable Notting Hill, decorated appropriately and the food was not bad), come from an experience with his mother.

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One of the prime movers behind the drive to get the carnival moved from its traditional west London home also dropped in to Notting Hill to see how things were going.

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Two of the trendiest parts of London in recent years, affluent Notting Hill and upcoming Brixton, were both hosts to large numbers of West Indian immigrants in the 1950s, because they could afford the cheap rents in the areas.

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The average house price across Greater London is 445, 000 pounds, but in desirable areas like Notting Hill or Kensington, the average price is closer to 1.5 million pounds.

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