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    Why can George Galloway break the rules?

    SUN columnist Kelvin MacKenzie asks why Saddam brown-noser George Galloway MP (former Labour Party member and now leader of the Respect Party and columnist in Scottish newspaper The Daily Record) is allowed to spout his nasty far-Left views and keep his radio presenting job on BBC TalkSport...
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    World War II veteran chains himself to gates of Buckingham Palace

    A World War II veteran who twice escaped from the Germans, and another former squaddy, chained themselves to the gates of Buckingham Palace yesterday whilst clutching a copy of the Bill of Rights in a protest over the treatment of soldiers. Peaceful ... cops move vets on Palace...
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    Woman photographs alien in Golders Green, north London

    Just what was the strange thing photographed by Roberta in the sky above the Golders Green area of north London? Is it a bird, plane or jellyfish? ... UFO pictured in the sky over North London I saw aliens in Golders Green By SEBASTIAN LANDER The Sun 15th May 2008...
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    Lord's cricket ground to launch own brand of clothing

    Lord's cricket ground in St John's Wood in London is one of the world's great cricket stadiums. Owned by the world famous Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) it is the home of County Championship team Middlesex and the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB). The stadium is named after its founder...
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    Cricket: England on top against New Zealand at Lord's

    England are on top against New Zealand at the end of the first day (of five) of the First Test between England and New Zealand at Lord's. England have already taken six of New Zealand's wicket, with James Anderson taking three of them. Jimmy Anderson puts England on top at Lord's By...
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    Monty Python's "Norwegian Blue" parrot really DID exist

    Monty Python's classic 1969 "Dead Parrot" sketch was voted the greatest British comedy sketch in a poll in 2004. John Cleese walks into a pet shop holding a cage with a dead parrot in it. He tries to tell the shop owner that his parrot is dead, but the shop owner refuses to believe him. Cleese...
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    Queen of scarves: Elizabeth II dons Islamic headgear as she visits a Turkish mosque

    The Queen and Prince Philip continued their four day state visit to Turkey today with a visit to a 15th century mosque in the northwest of the vast country. The Queen has to wear traditional Islamic headgear. Britain and Turkey were enemies during WWI when the British Empire fought the Ottoman...
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    Spot the difference: Gordon Brown meets his match in Ukrainian President Yushchenko

    British Prime Minister Gordon Brown met the Ukrainian President in London today. They look so alike you would be forgiven for thinking they are brothers. And in a freaky coincidence, they even wore the same suits and ties as each other!! Spot the difference: Gordon Brown meets his match in...
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    St Petersburg beat Glasgow Rangers to win the UEFA Cup

    Teams from great cities - and not so great cities - across Europe battled it out as usual in this season's UEFA Cup. This year's Final was between Scottish team Glasgow Rangers (who have won 51 league titles, a world record, and have won more major trophies than any other football club in the...
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    Scottish football hooligans may have put England's 2018 World Cup bid in jeaopardy

    Fans of Scottish giants Glasgow Rangers rampaged through the English city of Manchester last night after their team lost 2-0 to St Petersburg in the UEFA Cup Final. At round 150,000 Scottish football fans - if not many more - turned up in the city to watch the game that was being played at the...
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    Cricket: New Indian Premier League (IPL) gets under way

    India is a cricketing superpower, a country of 1 billion people where cricket is the national sport. A few weeks ago, the new Indian Premier League got under way, with 8 teams: Bangalore Royal Challengers, Chennai Super Kings, Delhi DareDevils, Deccan Chargers, Kolkata Knight Riders, Kings XI...
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    New Afghanistan cricket team hope to make it to 2011 World Cup

    Cricket has been popular in Afghanistan since Afghan refugees in neighbouring Pakistan - a country in which cricket is the national sport - watched the game then, when they returned to Afghanistan following the fall of the Taliban regime, brought back the game with them. In neighbouring...
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    Queen's granddaughter to compete for Great Britain in Beijing Olympics

    Zara Phillips, the daughter of the Princess Royal and the granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth II, has been picked to be in Great Britain's equestrian team for this year's Beijing Olympics. Phillips, who is dating England rugby player Mike Tindall, won the 2006 World Championship and was named...
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    The Red Baron flies into film storm

    The German WWI fighter ace, Baron von Richthofen (aka The Red Baron), was a great enemy to the British Empire. During the war, he shot down 80 British Empire and allied planes. Legend has it that the German was a chivalrous fighter pilot, who let his enemies have a sporting chance. Instead...
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    Prime Minister: I will never let Scotland become independent

    British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, a Scotsman, has said that he will ensure that Scotland does not gain independence. The PM seems to have the people on his side. The most recent polls show that 69% of people in the UK are against Scotland seceding from the Union and only 24% want England...
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    Welcome back to Eagle comic's amazing cut-away diagrams that delighted schoolboys

    Back in the 1800s and early 1900s, Britain led the world in engineering and manufacturing. The country gained the nickname "The Workshop of the World." Now a new exhibition at the Science Museum in London celebrates Britain's many engineering feats in the exhibition "Dan Dare & The Birth Of...
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    'Legacy film' shows Prince Philip in his true colours at last

    The Queen's husband, Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, agreed to co-operate in a new fly-on-the-wall documentary, to be shown on Channel 3 (ITV1) tomorrow night because he was worried about his gaffe-prone and grumpy image. The two-part special called The Duke, which took 18 months to...
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    Manchester United are English champions for the 17th time

    Ryan Giggs scored Manchester United's winning goal to hand them a record 10th Premiership title and a 17th English title in total (The former First Division was English football's top flight division until the Premiership was established in 1992). United are now just one title short of...
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    Princes, and London, in tribute to Armed Forces during London Salute

    Last night, London, and two royal princes, showed their gratitude to Britain's Armed Forces in a spectacular one hour long salute as the sun went down. Thousands gathered at St Paul's Cathedral - which also celebrates its 300th birthday on 20th December - to watch members of the RAF, Royal...
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    Found: Earliest photo of a national football team

    A photograph taken in March 1876 is probably the earliest ever photo of the England football team - and probably the earliest of ANY national football team. The England football team is the oldest nation football team in the world, formed 6 months before the next oldest, Scotland. The first...