The once portly Banting, who lived at 27 St James's Street, London (next door to what is now The Economist building) understood that even better than alcohol-sceptic Dr Atkins.

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She was meant to drop him at his apartment, but when she drew up at the entrance she opened the car door at her side, as he did his, and went to him in the street.

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While a rosy optimism has fuelled the party in Wall Street (at least until this week), William McChesney Martin would have bolted for the door long ago, punchbowl firmly tucked under his arm.

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Attackers shot through the front door of a house in Faulkner Street at about 04:15 BST on Tuesday.

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Mrs Pascoe, who was nine at the time, was in her family's home in Chapel Street when the house next door received a direct hit.

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The hottest bar of the moment is 001, which at street level looks like nothing more than a dimly-lit buzzer on a black door.

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The app uses top-notch technology from Google Maps and Street View as well as geocoding APIs to make it seem as though Carole is really there, at the door, clad in fur and surrounded by snowflakes.

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