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Participants run in the annual Parliamentary Pancake Race in front of the Houses of Parliament on Shrove Tuesday in London. Now in its 16th year, the annual Pancake Race, which raises money for the charity Rehab, sees teams of politicians and journalists racing in a circuit while tossing pancakes in frying pans. The team of MPs won this year's event.

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