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10/15/2002 Entry: "Selfridges voted best London store"

Selfridges voted best London store
Selfridges has been voted the visitors favourite London store in the London Tourism Awards for 2002. Readers of Where Magazine (78,000 copies of which are distributed in London’s prime hotels) chose the Oxford Street landmark store as the best London retail experience.

The controversial British Airways London Eye was the clear winner of the BBC London People’s Choice Award for the second straight year.

Other top winners included:
Visitor Attraction (over 100,000 visitors)
Winner: The Science Museum
Highly Commended: London Wetland Centre

Visitor Attraction (under 100,000 visitors)
Winner: Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum and Tour
Highly Commended: Firepower! Royal Artillery Museum

Large Hotel: Winner: Claridge's

Small Hotel: Winner: Milestone Hotel
Highly Commended: The Capital

Bed and Breakfast
Winner: Aster House

 
  

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This Saxon leader resisted the Norman invasion from a base in the fens near present-day Ely



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This Day in British History

13 February, 1689

William and Mary jointly crowned monarchs of England

Only the previous day Parliament declared a Declaration of Rights, making James II's constitutional reforms illegal

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This English king lost the Battle of Bannockburn to Robert the Bruce



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