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Let fly with an axe and give stress the chop

   Gabriella Swerling, Northern Correspondent

   December 24 2016, 12:01am, The Times
   Bull’s-eye! A woman enjoys throwing axes at the Whistle Punks’ London
   siteWHISTLE PUNKS URBAN AXE THROWING

   After a hard day in the office there is no better way to ease the
   stress quite like loosening your tie, taking a deep breath and hurling
   an axe down a lane.

   It may seem a radical way to beat the workday blues but axe throwing is
   catering to the hipster demand for a quirky night out.

   The first British venue, opened by the Whistle Punks Urban Axe Throwing
   company at Whitechapel, east London, bills itself as “like bowling plus
   extreme darts on speed with a bit of danger”.

   The company is planning to expand north with a site opening in
   Manchester in February, followed by another in Birmingham.

   “There’s something raw and wild about throwing an axe on wood,” Lorcan
   Fahey, the company’s operations…
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