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  1. Blackleaf

    What is a turducken?

    I don't fancy eating anything that's got the word "turd" in it. In fact, it looks like something I see floating around inside a public lavatory bowl. The French will probably love it, though.
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    BBC Saturday night fantasy drama Atlantis

    The BBC have a brilliant new Saturday night fantasy drama for the autumn and winter - Atlantis. This is the third Saturday night fantasy series the BBC has made in recent years, following on from Robin Hood (2006-2009) and Merlin (2008-2012). The first episode of thirteen in this brand new...
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    Counting under way in Irish Republic on the fate of the Senate

    Counting is under way in the Irish Republic in referendums to decide the fate of the Seanad Éireann (Irish for Irish Senate), the upper house of the Irish parliament. The current government of the Irish Republic, led by Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Enda Kenny, says that the Seanad costs too much...
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    What Are You Having For Dinner?

    No. Not up at Daubhill.
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    What Are You Having For Dinner?

    I'm not too sure if it IS just German shepherd meat that they serve. All I know is that the Muslim-run kebab shops around Bolton get a lot of their meat from local dogs which have been run over by cars and things like that.
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    What Are You Having For Dinner?

    I don't know what I'm having for my tea (I don't have dinner, just tea). If I can't be bothered making something I'll probbaly just nip to my local doner kebab shop up at Daubhill and order a load of German shepherd meat with loads of raw red onions, lettuce, tomatoes and spicy sauces in a...
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    55 ships and Prince Harry celebrate centenary of Royal Australian Navy

    Warships, galleons and tall ships from 17 nations sailed into Sydney Harbour today to celebrate the centenary of the Royal Australian Navy. On what was a beautiful spring day in Australia, thousands of spectators gathered along the harbour to welcome the 20-strong international fleet...
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    Dambusters prepare for final tour before disbandment

    The RAF's famous 617 Squadron - known as The Dambusters because of its destruction of German dams during WWII - is preparing for its final tour before disbandment. However, the disbandment is only temporary as it will be re-formed in 2016 to fly the new Lighning II aircraft, of which the RAF...
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    The Gambia leaves the Commonwealth

    The tiny, tiny nation of The Gambia - a tiny slither of a country in West Africa, three times smaller than Belgium, about 24 times smaller than the UK and with a population of just 1.7 million - has withdrawn from the Commonwealth. The nation branded the 54-member grouping (now a 53-member...
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    UN: Global warming 95% likely to be manmade

    Animation - Karl Pilkington Talking About the Ice Caps Melting - YouTube
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    The world's only prehistoric boatyard has been found in Monmouthshire

    Workmen were working on a new housing estate in Monmouth, Monmouthshire in South Wales (the county of Monmouthshire was in England until 1974 when Wales annexed it, leading to some English nationalists rightly campaigning to get it back) when they just happened to come across what is probably...
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    Two Bigfoot photographed in Pennsylvania

    Two weeks ago hiker John Stoneman was driving with his girlfriend through Kinzua State Park in Pennsylvania when they came across two Bigfoot/Bigfoots/Bigfeet. He quickly whipped out his camera and took a few photos of the seven foot tall hairy Hominids. Mr Stoneman, from Bradford, PA...
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    Daily Mail refuses to apologise after attacking Labour leader's Marxist father

    The Daily Mail and the leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition Ed Miliband are embroiled in a war of words after the newspaper attacked Ed's father Ralph Miliband for his Marxist beliefs. Ralph was a Belgian Jew and Marxist academic who fled Belgium for Britain to escape the...
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    Skulls found beneath lost London river may have belonged to decapitated Romans

    Around 20 Roman-era skulls have been found by workers working on London's billion pound Crossrail project. The skulls were found beneath Liverpool Street train station where the River Walbrook, a tributary of the Thames, flows. The Walbrook began being covered by buildings in 1440 and it now...
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    New £27m Stonehenge visitor centre is revealed

    Stonehenge's new £27 million visitor attraction has been unveiled to the world. Scaffolding surrounding the new structure has been removed to reveal a single-storey building which is hidden out of sight of Stonehenge in a natural hollow 1.5 miles away from what is probably the world's most...
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    UN: Global warming 95% likely to be manmade

    An MIT scientist has derided the IPCC report, saying: 'In attributing warming to man, they fail to point out that the warming has been small, and totally consistent with there being nothing to be alarmed about' MIT scientist ridicules IPCC climate change report, calls findings 'hilarious...
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    Two plead not guilty to Lee Rigby murder in Woolwich

    The two men accused of murdering soldier Lee Rigby in Woolwich, south east London, on May 22nd have pleaded not guilty in court. Michael Adebolajo, 28, from Romford, east London, and Michael Adebowale, 22, from Greenwich, south-east London, denied the charges at the Old Bailey. The trial of...
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    Thatcher's ashes are laid to rest at Royal Hospital in Chelsea

    The ashes of former British Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher, who died on 8th April, were laid to rest yesterday at the Royal Hospital in Chelsea, west London, alongside those of her husband, Sir Denis, who passed away in 2003. The Royal Hospital was founded by King Charles II in 1682 as a...
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    30 people jump off burning boat into the Thames near Houses of Parliament

    Thirty tourists were today forced to jump off a burning Duck Boat and into the Thames as the boat sank near to the Houses of Parliament and Lambeth Bridge. Flames ripped through the tour vessel in Central London around midday. The passengers - described by a London Fire Brigade spokesman as...
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    Iron Age fort and Bronze Age burial mounds uncovered in New Forest

    Iron Age fort and Bronze Age burial mounds uncovered in New Forest Thursday 26th September 2013 Submitted by Emma McFarnon Official website of BBC History Magazine The New Forest in Hampshire was created as a royal forest by William I in about 1079 for the royal hunt, mainly of...