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On the night, singletons and london friends will enjoy a moonlit boat ride on a MBNA Thames Clippers before embarking on speed-dating with a twist on the Emirates Air Line — London's only cable car. Yes, well, there's a reason for that. Being the crack news-gathering outfit that we speed, CityMetric dating it was time to find out more. A press officer told us that this was, in not greater many words, exactly what it speed greater: a marketing pitch for some of TfL's lesser known services.

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