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    The Spanish have no greater claim to Gib than they do on Portugal after Brexit

    WITH a Brexit deal close to being agreed, what has happened? Someone has shoved a Spaniard in the works, that’s what...
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    When it comes to Brexit, the BBC uses fact-chuckers and not fact-checkers

    Whether we voted Labour or Conservative, Leave or Remain, we all pay for the BBC through our licence fee. We...
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    Treasure hunter finds buried Celtic chariot

    A metal detectorist has found what is thought to be the first Celtic chariot burial to be uncovered in Wales. The burial ritual was reserved for high-ranking chiefs who would be interred...
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    Hoard king's helmet reconstructed

    A helmet thought to have been worn by a king has been reconstructed nine years after fragments of the original were found within the Staffordshire hoard...
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    Reading King Lear made George III's madness worse

    King George III suffered a bout of mental illness after reading King Lear - Shakespeare’s play about a monarch who descends into madness - according to royal medical records which have been published online for the first time...
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    Eurosceptics were right – the EU wants to be an empire

    Time and time again we are told that the EU has not the remotest intentions of establishing an army, that this is just Little Englander fantasy, and that to speak of the EU as an emergent, undemocratic empire is paranoid xenophobia...