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    Norwegians can't afjord to miss out on Britain's economy, skills and fairness

    The UK is already the third-largest destination for Norwegian investment, and now they’re putting in more. It...
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    We ought to be ashamed of our slippery, spineless, arrogant, shifty MPs

    Democratic honesty is being casually abandoned by a knot of pro-Brussels obsessives who think they can do whatever they like. And they suppose we won’t notice...
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    The football match stopped by the Nazis

    A recently discovered football programme has shed new light on a match featuring a team of Nazi forced labourers, thought to have been thwarted by German authorities...
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    West Country's iron age hillforts to be rejuvenated

    A string of iron age hillforts that dot the landscape of the English West Country is to be rejuvenated as part of a lottery award worth almost £1m. Thirteen hillforts in Dorset and Wiltshire, which are...
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    Nigel Farage plans to steal Tories for his new Brexit Party

    Nigel Farage is plotting to steal Tories for his new Brexit Party if there is a delay on leaving the EU, it was claimed on Friday. Catherine Blaiklock - a former UKIP candidate who is heading the party -...
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    Stonehenge megaliths quarry is discovered

    Welsh quarries ransacked by ancient Britons while building Stonehenge 5,000 years ago have been identified by archaeologists. At least two...
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    The IG is a space for anti-democrats to war against Brexit

    Taking Orwellianism to dizzy new heights, this new political group poses as 'independent' while trying to deny Britain her independence... BRENDAN O'NEILL Independent Group is a space for...
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    Norse heritage celebrated at Sheringham Scira Festival

    A seaside town in Norfolk has celebrated its Norse heritage at its annual Viking festival. The Scira Festival in Sheringham included...
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    Flash, bang, wallop... what a shameful photograph!

    Hello, Mum! Look at me! I’m in the House of Commons! The young man waving at the camera seems to have wandered into the chamber after getting separated from a school trip to Parliament...
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    Sheela-na-gigs: The naked women adorning Britain's churches

    For hundreds of years carvings of naked women have sat provocatively on churches across Britain. But who created them - and why? Sheela-na-gigs: The naked women adorning Britain's churches...
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    Oldest skull mudlarked from Thames belongs to Neolithic male

    The oldest skull ever found on the banks of the River Thames – dating from about 5,600 years ago – will go on display at the Museum of London...
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    Don’t believe the EU’s fairy stories

    The result of four decades of EU membership is to make fairy tales our ‘lingua dodgy’. That’s alarming for anyone who believes that politicians should focus on the disastrous economic situation of a country which can neither pay its way in the world nor support the level of services an advanced...
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    A 1,000-year-old shoe found in the Thames

    A 1,000-year-old shoe has been found intact in the muddy river bed of the River Thames. Steve Tomlinson, 47, was exploring the estuary when he stumbled across the unassuming object protruding from the mud flats. The amateur archaeologist was unaware of its historical significance and was...
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    Russian flag flown from Salisbury Cathedral

    A Russian flag has appeared briefly on scaffolding outside Salisbury Cathedral. It was spotted by workers early on Sunday but has since been removed. John Glen, the city's MP, called it a "stupid stunt" in light of last year's Novichok attack. Russian flag flown on Salisbury...
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    Tests confirm bed did belong to Henry VII

    An intricately carved oak bed once dumped in a hotel car park has been revealed by DNA testing as the likely place where Henry VIII was conceived. The testing was...
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    The pirate queens of the Caribbean

    A historian has shed new light on the real Pirates of the Carribean - including two fearless lady pirates who cursed like men, wielded machetes and exposed their breasts to dying victims to show them they were killed by a woman in disguise...
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    London's secret billion-pound guilds

    London's trade guilds date back a thousand years and have billions of pounds in assets. But have they forgotten one of their original purposes - to spend money on the public good...
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    The British football club that will be staying in the EU after Brexit

    Derry City is a Northern Irish football club. But rather than play in the Northern Ireland Football League (NIFL) it plays in the Republic of Ireland's League of Ireland Premier Division. This means that Derry City will become the only British team to be competing in a domestic EU league after...
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    People’s Vote campaigners know they’re championing a lost cause

    Although they may not admit it when pressed on Sky News or the BBC, those proposing a People’s Vote are not oblivious to the risks attached. The likes of Umunna, Soubry et al. know that the idea that the elite failed to implement the verdict of 2016 would play into the hands of populist leavers...
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    Time To Go

    ‘Time To Go’ Venezuela Times 15 February 2019...