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		<title>TORQUAY GETS UNESCO URBAN GLOBAL GEOPARK!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the link that will give you a sneak preview into UNESCO's first Urban Global Geopark and you can see it in all its glory when you come to Torquay, heart of the English Riviera. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RATmkF9zXy4&#38;feature=sub]]></description>
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		<title>All Creatures Great and Small want a Grand entrance!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Right now there is good entertainment available in the hotel.  Every Friday and second Saturday you can chill out in the Compass Bar and Lounge to the sounds of Howard Jones - an excellent singer who will have you up and dancing before you know it!  Complementing Howard on alternate Saturdays is Talitha another singer guaranteed to get the feet going.  (Even the manager has been spotted on the dance floor!). On Wednesdays and Sunday lunchtimes, Paul Vincent, a pianist who has accompanied the likes of Morecambe and Wise and Norman Wisdom amongst others during an illustrious career,... ]]></description>
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		<title>AUGUST 2ND &#8211; NOT A GRAND DAY!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, having been basking in a stream of  satisfied customer comments for some time, imagine how I felt when 34 copies of the Sunday Times were delivered by my porters to my beautiful 4 star hotel bedrooms on Sunday, August 2nd!  
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		<title>NEWBIE DUTY MANAGER HITS THE FLOOR&#8230;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My first 4 weeks as a Duty Manager at The Grand hotel and I'm already being asked to show my literary prowess at blogging! 

Have you ever noticed that when you meet new people in a group, next time you come across them you think either they all look the same or you draw a blank when trying to remember anybody's name?  Now multiply that tenfold and you have my dilemma - how to remember the names of over 130 staff - thank heavens for name badges!

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		<title>Antony Gormley Field for the British Isles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps most famous for his giant sculpture, Angel of the North, Gormley’s Turner-prize-winning Field series is a startling and arresting sight: thousands of unglazed, fired, small clay figures, standing closely together, all staring towards the viewer. The Field for the British Isles’ comprising 40,000 clay figures will fill much of the Abbey’s huge Spanish Barn. ]]></description>
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		<title>KIDS &#8216;N US AT EASTER</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Getting in to the mindset of a child, idea’s start flying around the office, ‘singing and dancing, bouncy castle, egg painting…’  Now we have all of these idea’s it’s up to me to find people to put things into action!  Google becomes a very close friend of mine at this point!!

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		<title>QUACKERS?  I THINK NOT!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Residents and staff at The Grand Hotel Torquay await news of an impending delivery of new ducklings as Mum and Dad have taken up residence in the hotel's outdoor pool.]]></description>
		<link>http://grand.worldarcstudio.com/blog/?p=96</link>
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		<title>Grand Christmas Delights</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was Christmas……. And Once upon a time at the Grand Hotel Torquay there worked an old man and an old woman. One day down in the Grand Bakery, they had a little batch of dough leftover from the days orders, so they thought they should make a gingerbread man. They rolled the dough and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://grand.worldarcstudio.com/blog/?p=42</link>
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		<title>The life of (the only female) Assistant Manager</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You may remember previous blogs that I have written “A day in the life of the Sales Manager, Happy New year, Christmas Countdown, and the classic Joleen, Joleen White water queen!”  So it’s quite nice for me to say hello to you all once again and tell you what ‘s going on!
Well, my role [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Day in the life of a Manager&#8217;s PA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Having just returned to work after a two-week cruise of the Mediterranean, and experienced life as a “guest”, I’m all fired up with enthusiasm and ideas to make a stay here at the Grand as pleasurable as mine on the ocean waves.  Of course, we cannot match the weather, nor the daily changing view, [...]]]></description>
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