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Tourist Information:  Tourist information uk.com Site giving lots of links to tourist attractions throughout England, also links to Bed and breakfasts and tourist information centres throughout UK. Useful if not a bit of an odd layout.

Car Hire: Travel supermarket.com Price comparison site that will check out car hire deals. You can probably source cheaper if you go directly to the hirers website, but this puts you in the right direction.

Rail travel: Qjump.co.uk You can get information on every train in the UK from this website. Its pretty slow and can crash on you and you have to register if you want to buy a ticket....but all of the rail website work from the same database, so you wont get better.

London is free.com: Great website detailing free events in London

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Soft play areas: comprehensive list of Soft Play areas in London and South of England,