For three weeks each year, cycling enthusiasts live a nocturnal existence - tuning into the coverage of the tour on the channel SBS either side of the midnight hour to cheer on the best cyclist that Australia has produced.
The reciprocal arrangement means that French border police will make checks on the UK side of the Channel.
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More spectacular cultural differences are raised by the comparative speed of the train on either side of the Channel.
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French restaurants have always been de rigueur in London, but this gastronomic relationship has never really been reciprocated on the other side of the channel.
The Englishman will purse his lips, raise an eyebrow and furrow his brow but on the other side of the Channel the whole body is involved.
The company has long argued it is not the "liable operator" on the French side of the channel and so any attempt to impose the fines would have been "flung out of court".
That being said, at some point either the bulls or the bears will become exhausted and if a clean break is made out of either side of this channel it could have the force of a volcanic eruption.
But on the other side of the Channel in the UK, where the BSE crisis first unfolded, the patron chef of London's two Michelin-starred Le Gavroche said customers had never been put off -- in fact, quite the opposite.
Rather than a sense of propriety, the chief reason for this is that newspapers on the other side of the Channel have been treading very carefully since the News of the World scandal and the illegal phone hacking of public figures.
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Soon enough we entered the Beagle Channel, with forests on either side, and the world resumed its familiar dimensions.
It is a structural British problem, too: only on our side of the English Channel can you be a tree-hugging centrist and Eurosceptic.
Not to be outdone by his French counterpart, on the other side of the English Channel, Henry VIII (1509-47) was a skilled practitioner of the sport and famously built a court at the Royal Palace of Hampton Court, which still survives today and is used for modern competition.
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Mr Klesch has, for example, become a thorn in the side of Eurotunnel, which operates the Channel tunnel between Britain and France, making doom-laden pronouncements about the company's prospects and criticising the financial restructuring agreed on by its 200-plus banks.
On the audio side, it touts 5.1-channel surround via analog outs for SACD, while DVD-Audio can take advantage of HDMI's single cable simplicity.
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That team (more business-side oriented) works hand-in-hand with our Channel Product managers (more editorially focused) to develop and implement audience growth strategies.
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Even if you've seen "Citizen Kane" 50 times, when you come across it while channel-surfing, you might be hard-pressed to name the scenes on either side of the one you've stumbled on.
We would not be able to reconcile this objective with supporting one side or the other, be it via the export of arms or through some other channel.
While the deal between Big Machine and Clear Channel suggests a step towards a larger resolution of the performance royalty war, it does not appear either side is ready to concede their positions any time soon.
On a windy point called Arnavutkoy, on the European side of the Bosphorus, clusters of weather-beaten fishermen hurled their fishing lines deep into the channel.
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