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RAISE A GLASS

ONE of the benefits about working at COUNTRY LIFE is that, one afternoon, Rosie, the LONDON LIFE Editor, can drift past your desk, mutter something insane like ‘Hey, you should find the best pub in London’ and you reply ‘Yeah ok, sure’. Then you check how many pubs there are in London and find it’s about 3,500 and your liver shakes and turns to jam. Strangely, when I asked for the company card to do some ‘research’, I was respectfully told to ‘sod off’. Luckily for Rosie, I have been doing ‘research’ for the best part of 10 years, and have compiled a list of

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