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THE top bars across the globe have been named and in the top spot is one right here in the UK.

Now, you might think the world’s best bar would be in London but it’s actually in Edinburgh, Scotland.

The boozer called Panda & Sons secured the number one spot of the Top 500 Bars list this year.

Founded back in 2013, Panda & Sons is a ‘hidden’ Prohibition-style speakeasy, according to Time Out.

Top 500 Bars said: “Panda & Sons is the brainchild of famed Scottish bartender Iain McPherson.

“It’s a table service cocktail bar, that’s all about friendly Scottish service in an intimate and cosy surrounding. Their cocktail menu offers exciting drinks using the latest techniques, including their very own called ‘Switching’.

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“Their technique Switching is where you isolate the water from spirits and swap it with another non-alcoholic liquid.”

To get inside you have to find the secret door, which is behind a bookshelf underneath a barbers.

Once inside, you can find cool panda themed decorations throughout the place.

It won’t break the bank either with cocktails for around £9, but of course, you can go for a fancier drink with some costing up to £15.

It’s a popular spot having amassed a solid Tripadvisor rating of 4.5 out of 5 with lots of visitors complimenting its ‘super friendly’ staff and ‘unique’ drinks menu.

One visitor even said they were “literally the best drink I’ve ever had in my life” and that when they went to the bathroom the bartender kept their drink in the fridge so it would stay cold.

If Edinburgh isn’t your local spot – there were other UK bars hat also made the top 10.

Tayēr + Elementary in London came in seventh place, followed by The Connaught Bar in 13th place.

Also in London making the rankings was Scarfes Bar (21) and Satan’s Whiskers (22), while lower down was Kwant (108), Three Sheets Soho (115), Kol Mezcalería: London (118).

Along with Panda & Sons, Hey Palu, which is also in Edinburgh also made the list in 148th place.

The bar describes itself as an ‘intimate stylish cocktail bar in the heart of Edinburgh Old Town, accompanied by a killer playlist’.

The drinks menu focuses on Italian Aperitivo along with modern yet classic cocktails,

SCHOFIELD’S BAR in Manchester came in 224th and Lab 22 in Cardiff in 306th, while The Milk Thistle in Bristol in 315th.

AMERICAN Pie star Tara Reid told police she was drugged at a Chicago hotel bar – ending in a hospital dash with the star in a concerning state.

Distressing footage shows the actress, 50, looking unwell as she sits in a wheelchair, before being stretchered out by paramedics on Saturday night.

The Rosemont Public Safety Department confirmed on Tuesday that the actress had filed a report.

Reid has vowed she is willing to prosecute anyone involved.

The 90s film pin-up said the night was a “big blur”, but insisted she had only had one drink before being taken ill.

Speaking to TMZ Live on Tuesday, she recounted leaving her drink in the hotel bar to go for a smoke, and returning to find a napkin covering it that hadn’t been there when she left it.

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She said: “And then I drank my drink, and without even finishing my drink, I just passed out. And before I knew it, I was in the hospital eight hours later.”

The person who filmed the episode told the publication that Reid was yelling: “You don’t know who I am. I am famous. I’m an actress,” before medics arrived.

Tara was allegedly told by hospital doctors that she had been drugged, though said no tests were undertaken to determine what the drug was or her blood alcohol level.

She continued: “It was all kind of vague. It was all like very blurry, do you know what I mean? I can’t even explain it because I don’t even know what happened.”

When she came around, Tara left hospital with her agent and went straight to a signing before heading home.

A representative for the star said: “Tara Reid has filed a police report after an incident in which she believes her drink was tampered with.

“She is cooperating fully with the investigation. Tara is recovering and asks for privacy during this traumatic time.

“She also urges everyone to be careful, watch your drinks and never leave them unattended, as this can happen to anyone. She will not be making further comments at this stage.”

Tara’s screen career began in the 90s with small roles in the soap opera Days of Our Lives and teen sitcom Saved by the Bell: The New Class.

In 1998 she appeared in slasher flick Urban Legend, teen drama Cruel Intentions and cult hit crime comedy The Big Lebowski.

But it was as sexy virgin Vicky in American Pie and its sequels that really made her famous.

Tara’s career stalled in the mid-2000s with a string of critical and commercial flops including Josie and the Pussycats, Van Wilder and Alone in the Dark, for which she received a Razzie Award nomination for Worst Actress.

To make matters worse, she suffered two botched plastic surgery procedures in 2004, including breast implants and a body contouring procedure meant to give her a six-pack.

She later said she’d asked the surgeon for B cups, but he gave her Cs, and told US Weekly: “My stomach became the most ripply, bulgy thing. I had a hernia, this huge bump next to my belly button.

“As a result, I couldn’t wear a bikini. I lost a lot of work.”

She swapped the big screen for reality TV appearing in travel show Taradise and Celebrity Big Brother in the UK.

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In 2023 she appeared in Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test and was cruelly body-shamed over her slim figure.

She hit back in the Los Angeles Inquisitor, “So stop it. Leave me alone. Pick on me again on something else, but not on those two things. It’s not right.”

AMERICAN Pie star Tara Reid was taken to hospital after allegedly being drugged in a Chicago bar.

Footage obtained by TMZ showed the actress, 50, slumped in a wheelchair in a hotel lobby before being put onto a stretcher by paramedics and taken to hospital.

Reid called the night a “big blur” but insisted she had only had one drink before being taken ill.

The 90s film pin-up spoke to TMZ Live yesterday and revealed how she left her drink in the hotel bar to go and have a smoke, and when she returned there was a napkin covering it, which wasn’t how she had left it.

She said: “And then I drank my drink, and without even finishing my drink, I just passed out. And before I knew it, I was in the hospital eight hours later.”

The person who filmed the incident told the publication that Reid was yelling, “You don’t know who I am. I am famous. I’m an actress,” before medics arrived.

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Tara was allegedly told by hospital doctors that she had been drugged, though said no tests were undertaken to determine what the drug was or her blood alcohol level.

She continued: “It was all kind of vague. It was all like very blurry, do you know what I mean? I can’t even explain it because I don’t even know what happened.”

When she came around, Tara left hospital with her agent and went straight to a signing before heading home.

A representative for the star said, “Tara Reid has filed a police report after an incident in which she believes her drink was tampered with.

“She is cooperating fully with the investigation. Tara is recovering and asks for privacy during this traumatic time.

“She also urges everyone to be careful, watch your drinks and never leave them unattended, as this can happen to anyone. She will not be making further comments at this stage.”

Tara’s screen career began in the 90s with small roles on the soap opera Days of Our Lives and teen sitcom Saved by the Bell: The New Class.

In 1998 she appeared in slasher flick Urban Legend, teen drama Cruel Intentions and cult hit crime comedy The Big Lebowski.

But it was as sexy virgin Vicky in American Pie and its sequels that really made her famous.

Tara’s career stalled in the mid-2000s with a string of critical and commercial flops including Jose and the Pussycat, Van Wilder and Alone in the Dark, for which she received a Razzie Award nomination for Worst Actress.

To make matters worse, she suffered two botched plastic surgery procedures in 2004, including breast implants and a body contouring procedure meant to give her a six-pack.

She later said she’d asked the surgeon for B cups, but he gave her Cs, and told US Weekly: “My stomach became the most ripply, bulgy thing. I had a hernia, this huge bump next to my belly button.

“As a result, I couldn’t wear a bikini. I lost a lot of work.”

She swapped the big screen for reality TV appearing in travel show Taradise and Celebrity Big Brother in the UK.

In 2023 she appeared in Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test and was cruelly body-shamed over her slim figure.

She hit back in the Los Angeles Inquisitor, “So stop it. Leave me alone. Pick on me again on something else, but not on those two things. It’s not right.”

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KIM Kardashian refuses to throw in the book as she returns to studying, after fuming that psychics incorrectly predicted she would pass her exam to qualify as a lawyer.

The billionaire entrepreneur and reality star, 45, posing in a bikini while revising with a textbook, failed her California bar exam after six years of studying.

In a TikTok video, she ranted to her famous family that their clairvoyants were “liars.”

She said: “I’m just letting you guys know that all of the f***ing psychics that we have met with, and that we’re obsessed with, are all f***ing full of s**t.

“They all collectively, maybe four of them, have told me I was going to pass the bar so they’re all full pathological liars. Don’t believe anything they say.”

It comes after her Disney+ drama All’s Fair, about a group of female lawyers, was critically panned and received a four percent rating on review-aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes.

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However, The U.S. Sun revealed how this took a drastic turn late Tuesday night heading into Wednesday, when reviews labeling the show the “worst of all time” began going viral.

“The show had a disappointing opening in the first 24 hours. 

“It wasn’t getting as much attention leading up because the media review embargoes weren’t allowed to go up until after the show had already dropped,” the source explained. 

“So all the 0% reviews came out at once, after the episode was already out, and helped draw droves of attention to it. 

“The reaction to all the bad reviews was the best thing that could’ve happened to the show. It basically, right away, doubled overall episode engagement. 

“Including viewership but also the amount of online mentions and social media activity.”

The insider added that producers are taking the critique well, as they know the show is meant to be “campy and fun” and is “not meant to be serious.” 

“No one likes their work being dunked on, but the show welcomes the chatter because it’s driving interest and the viewership is benefiting exponentially,” they added. 

Kim stars on the legal drama as a divorce attorney at an all-female law firm.

In addition to The Kardashians star, the series also includes Naomi Watts, Niecy Nash, Sarah Paulson, and Glenn Close.

Kim Kardashian won’t be arguing cases just yet.

The reality-TV star and billionaire entrepreneur revealed Saturday that she missed the mark on California’s bar exam but promised to keep studying until she passes.

“Well… I’m not a lawyer yet, I just play a very well-dressed one on TV,” Kardashian wrote on Instagram. “Six years into this law journey, and I’m still all in until I pass the bar. No shortcuts, no giving up — just more studying and even more determination.”

The 45-year-old Kardashian said she came “so close” this time and called the result “fuel” for her next try. “I was so close to passing the exam and that only motivated me even more. Let’s go!”

Kardashian had sounded hopeful about her prospects of passing the mandatory legal exam during an October appearance on Britain’s “The Graham Norton Show.” While promoting Ryan Murphy’s series “All’s Fair,” in which she stars as a divorce attorney, she said she was confident she would soon be a “qualified lawyer.”

Kardashian is attempting to follow in the footsteps of her father, Robert Kardashian. The late attorney, who shares Kim, Khloé, Kourtney and Rob Jr. with Kris Jenner, famously was part of the “Dream Team” that represented O.J. Simpson during his murder trial in 1995. Simpson was accused of killing ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and friend Ron Goldman on June 12, 1994. He was acquitted.

In an April 2019 Vogue interview, the “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” star and mother of four publicized her summer 2018 decision to study the law after championing the case of former prisoner Alice Marie Johnson, who had been imprisoned for life plus 25 years for a nonviolent drug offense. President Trump commuted Johnson’s sentence in 2018 at the urging of Kardashian and others and pardoned the great-grandmother two years later.

Over the years, Kardashian has been working with attorneys Van Jones and Jessica Jackson, who sponsored her studies. Instead of attending law school, Kardashian planned to pursue a four-year apprenticeship with a law firm in San Francisco and then take the bar in 2022.

After COVID pandemic-induced delays, Kardashian passed the “baby bar” exam in December 2021 after several attempts. In May, she passed the Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam, required before a person attempts to pass a bar exam in the United States.

Days before sharing her bar exam results, Kardashian said she used artificial intelligence to bolster her law studies. “Do you consider ChatGPT to be a friend?,” “All’s Fair” co-star Teyana Taylor asked the reality star during their Vanity Fair lie detector appearance.

“I use it for legal advice. So when I am needing to know the answer to a question, I’ll take a picture and snap it and put it in there,” Kardashian replied.

“So you’re cheating?” Taylor responded.

“They’re always wrong. It has made me fail tests.”

While Kardashian’s professional law career has yet to take off in real life, she is currently portraying a power player of an attorney on the small screen. In Murphy’s “All’s Fair,” Kardashian stars as the co-founder of an all-female firm with Sarah Paulson, Naomi Watts, Niecy Nash and Taylor as her cohorts.

A COSY trip to the pub is unmatched during the autumn and winter months – but did you know you could head to an unusual spot that doubles as a tourist attraction?

The Highwayman Inn sits on the edge of Dartmoor, in Devon – but it isn’t your average 13th century inn.

Instead, inside is an emporium of artifacts and curiosities.

The inn is often dubbed the ‘most unusual pub’ in Britain thanks to being full of random objects, and even ghostly sightings of “a burly sea captain, the flamboyant cavalier Samuel, and a provocative serving wench in a mop cap”, according to the inn’s website.

From the outside, visitors are greeted by a nod to the ‘old lady who lived in a shoe’ fairytale, as part of the front of the building forms a giant black boot.

Then as you enter inside, the walls, floors and ceilings have been formed of natural wood and stone from the area.

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And in every nook and cranny there is something interesting, from animal figurines to an Egyptian-style sarcophagus.

There is even a £150 reward poster for the capture of “two highwaymen known to be causing grief among Travellers in these Parts by Robbery of great violence”.

The poster also states: “Render this countryside free from such fiendish rogues.”

Visitors can venture down a once secret passage way as well, which leads them to the Rita Jone’s Locker Bar – it features a gothic door from an old whaling boat named the Diana, which was built in the mid 18th century.

The bar essentially looks like the boughs of a grand ship with wheels also hanging from the ceiling.

In another area, visitors will find the Hideaway, which is more intimate.

In the Coach Cabin Lounge, there are several horse-related items such as bridles and harnesses from the days horse-drawn carriages were used.

Then in Witchy Corner, guests will find a wishing bottle and tarot decorations.

Somewhere in the inn is even a 1.8 metre tall Minotaur, named Asterion.

Much of the menu is vegan and vegetarian, but there are some meat and fish options too.

For example, you could grab pie of the day with chips for £18 or a traditional Devonshire pasty and chips for £18 also.

Desserts include apple pie or Devil’s Chocolate Cake for £8.75 each.

Originally built as an inn in 1282, The Highwayman Inn later became an inn and farm with 20 acres of land.

Then in the 17th century it was renamed to the Golden Fleece, before Plymouth Breweries then renamed it the New Inn.

According to one visitor, the inn provides “an absolutely surreal experience, like stepping into a tardis whilst dining on an old ship all at once”.

For those wanting to enjoy the quirky pub for longer, you can stay in Cobweb Hall – a cottage just opposite the inn.

Inside, there are two bedrooms with four poster beds and each even has its own spiral staircase and Victorian-style bathroom.

The cottage also then has an open plan dining area and living room, as well as a kitchen.

It costs from £198 per night for both rooms, and there is a minimum stay of three nights.

The Highwayman Inn can be found in Sourton, which sits on the edge of Dartmoor National Park.

It is just a six minute drive or 45 minute walk from Meldon Reservoir, which is a great spot for walking around a giant dam.

You can also see Meldon Viaduct just a short walk from the reservoir as well.

Drive slightly past Meldon and you will reach the town of Okehampton, where there are a number of shops, the Museum of Dartmoor Life and Okehampton Castle.

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