About three minutes down the street from the Kapoor's mansion, through a tiny alleyway, lies the rotting home of another Bollywood legend from the 1950s and 1960s, Dilip Kumar.

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While the tours are self-guided, in reality the members of each shuttle move through the mansion more or less as a group, because each shuttle is well staggered.

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Accessed via its own elevator or a rather circuitous route through the hotel, the space seeks to evoke a grand New Orleans mansion.

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So the hope on East 78th Street is to sell the well-preserved houses on a quiet residential block off Lexington Avenue to a family or a developer looking to create a single 25-wide mansion by breaking through the wall between the houses.

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Paralympic GB athletes will be honoured alongside Team GB's 541 Olympic athletes with a parade through the streets of London on 10 September, beginning from Mansion House and ending at Buckingham Palace.

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Having battled their way through the snow, Team Osborne will find a warm welcome awaits at the Queen Anne-style mansion set in over 200 acres of Buckinghamshire countryside.

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The ceremony followed a 90-minute open-topped parade from Mansion House during which the two buses crawled through thousands of flag-waving fans as crowds built up in a sun-drenched Trafalgar Square.

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"He may decide to look at those who have got high levels of wealth, which is actually a bit of a different group to those who have high levels of income, so a mansion tax, for example, for those who have very expensive houses, or looking through things like inheritance tax or capital gains tax, " Mr Johnson says.

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