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BGTW Awards Dinner Returns to the Savoy
We finally have all the pieces in place. Date: 7th November; Place: the Savoy Hotel; the Occasion: the BGTW Awards Dinner in our 50th anniversary year, sponsored by the Belgian Tourist Tourist Office – Brussels and Wallonia. It's the hot ticket of this year's WTM. Join us. This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ; www.bgtw.org.
 
Jill Turton

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I'm a freelance food and travel writer based in York. After a career in television as a network documentary producer I began food and travel writing in 1994 and now specialise in travel within the UK, especially Yorkshire and the north.

I review restaurants for a variety of publications including the Yorkshire Post, Square Meal and the top national food guides.

I have lived and worked in Yorkshire for many years and know the north of England inside out.   I have written...
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"Mr Safi Ullah was a tall thin man in white beard and white punjabi. He gave me tea and a copy of the headmaster’s report from 1948. As I left I pressed him to accept a 1000 taka note – a little less than £9. “For books,” I insisted. He took it under protest. “For books,” he agreed. I reflected afterwards that I had given him enough to keep a 10-year-old in school for a year." 

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