Cardiff's current St David's shopping centre attracts around 30 million visitors a year, second only to Birmingham's Bull Ring.

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Fellow viewer Mae Bourbage suggested bringing back the King Kong statue, which was built and positioned outside the Bull Ring in the early 1970s.

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While the city's Labour politicians preside over the building of the huge, shiny new Bull Ring shopping precinct in the city centre, Sparkbrook still has some of the country's most run-down estates, as well as some of its highest rates of unemployment.

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Madrid's plans include hosting beach volleyball on a platform on a lake in Retiro Park and regenerating an old bull fighting ring to host basketball.

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Inside the 'bull' is a smaller ring (the V-bull) which acts as a tie-break when scores are level for all positions.

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In Portugal it is illegal to kill the bull in the ring.

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His owner only allowed him to appear in a style of bullfighting called recortes in which members of the public jump into the ring and try and dodge the bull by running around a series of obstacles.

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