In much of the world, even friendly British visitors arrive freighted with colonial baggage.

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Like many wards, hers had no child-friendly area for visitors.

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Transformed into a family-friendly setting, the event will get visitors involved in various classes, such as floral jamming (getting creative with flowers), robot building, craft beer sampling and getting hands-on at a local food workshop.

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Seeming as benign as Casper the Friendly Ghost, these gleaming, motorized white forms welcomed visitors to the Pepsi-Cola Pavilion at the Expo '70 in Osaka.

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"These latest initiatives will not only help employees and visitors to travel to our Benhall site in a more environmentally-friendly way, but will also help reduce the pressures on those living nearby, something we are always keen to do, " said a GCHQ spokesman.

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Designed to be more user friendly, the centres are hubs which also house speech and language therapists, health visitors, community dentistry, physiotherapy and outpatient clinics.

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