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Brighton is the host town for the
Brighton Marathon, a road race run
over the distance of 42.195 km or 26
miles and 385 yards. The inaugural
Brighton Marathon was organised by
former international athlete Tim
Hutchings. The first running of the
race took place on 18th April 2010.
The race opened to 12,000 entries,
with 7,589 participating on race
day. The course start line was at
Preston Park. The route took in some
of the sights of central Brighton
before heading East towards
Rottingdean. The race then headed
west out to and around Hove, before
returning on the seafront and
finishing on Madeira Drive, close to
Brighton Pier.
The
Brighton Marine Palace and Pier is a
pleasure pier in Brighton, England.
It is generally known as the Palace
Pier for short, but has been
informally renamed Brighton Pier
since 2000 by its owners, the Noble
Organisation, in an attempt to
suggest that it is Brighton's only
pier. The West Pier was its rival
but was closed in 1975 and was
subsequently severely damaged by
fires and storms, with the remaining
iron structure being partially
demolished in 2010.
The
pier features prominently in the
1971 film, Carry On at Your
Convenience, and it is frequently
shown iconically to "set" film and
television features in Brighton, for
example in scenes in Mirrormask, The
Persuaders, the Doctor Who serial
The Leisure Hive (1980) and the 2007
film, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber
of Fleet Street. Much earlier on in
1896 the pier was also shown in many
silent films. R.W. Paul shot the
iconic film, On Brighton Beach,
which included both the Palace Pier
and the West Pier. Palace Pier is
the title of a novel by Keith
Waterhouse, set in Brighton, and it
is the setting for a scene in the
Graham Greene novel Brighton Rock.
In 2010, the Palace Pier was the
setting for part of an episode of
Midsomer Murders, "The Sword of
Guillaume".
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