Donington-le-Heath Manor House would close two days a week and from November to mid-February, and the Record Office would not be open on Fridays from January 2012.

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The title is meant to evoke wind, sails and also pajamas, for this is a Hindi word, and Rauschenberg made these mostly textile and wood objects during a 1975 stay at the Sarabhai family's Le Corbusier-designed house in Ahmedabad.

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Others are designed to enrich guests' connection to the locale, like the in-house art concierge at Le Royal Monceau, who will design a trip through the best Parisian museums and galleries, or the genealogists on hand at Ireland's Lodge at Doonbeg to track visitors' family ancestry.

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An incident room has been set up at set up at police headquarters while house-to-house enquiries in the Chester-le-Street area continue.

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The most romantic of all Parisian restaurants, Le Coupe-Chou, is tucked inside a gabled medieval house, just two blocks away from my apartment.

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As it turns out, the couple takes most meals at the Brasserie Le Bourbon on the corner: "We need to get out of the house anyway, " Owens says.

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