MINI United Celebrates 50th Birthday

MINI is officially 50 years young this year, and to celebrate MINI United is coming to the UK. The MINI United festival is a celebration of all things MINI, and takes place every two years with previous events in Misano, Italy and Zandvoort, Holland. 2009 will also see the largest MINI United event to take place to date with MINI fanatics travelling from all across the globe to join in, held at Silverstone and taking place from May 22nd to 24th.



Guests such as Paul Weller, Calvin Harris, Chris Thompson, Raygun, and Twisted Wheel will be entertaining over the weekend, with a host of events for everyone from die hard MINI fans, to adrenalin junkies. There is also a MINI United community set up, which also includes everything from festival programmes, competitions, as well as maps and further information of the weekend.

Get ready for the Barclaycard World Freerun Championships

With less than 24 hours to go before the first ever Barclaycard World Freerun Championships, us London folk have been spoilt with a campaign including some impressive formats within the freesheets, and a YouTube Channel full of breathtaking videos of people with far too much desire to injure themselves.



So what exactly is the Barclaycard World Freerun Championships? Parkour, or free-running over the last few years has become a global phenomenon, finding its way into everything from movies, to music videos, and even adverts. The Barclaycard World Freerun Championships is an event where competitors from 17 different countries can show off their skills in order to be crowned World Champion.



It almost seems like there hasn’t been enough hype around the event, however it certainly seems like this could be the start of a very popular annual competition.