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    The super rich just get richer

    Thanks to Labour making the Britain's rich become super-rich, Britain has more billionaires than every country on Earth after the US and Russia.... Hey big spender ... Chelsea football club owner Roman Abramovich. He is worth over $11 billion. Only the US has more billionaires than Russia...
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    I "died" in Jerusalem in 1276

    Does reincarnation exist? The chances are that if you are a Christian (especially a Catholic), a Muslim or a Jew then you won't believe in it, but if you are a Hindu or a Buddhist then you will. But there seems to be a lot of evidence for reincarnation and the Daily Mail's Danny Penman was...
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    Amazing 100 year old colour photos

    Ahhhh. Britain in the first decades of the 20th Century. The country was about a third larger than it is now (315,093 km² compared to 244,820 km² as it is now) and the Empire was still growing (it didn't reach its biggest extent until 1922). In 1900, Queen Victoria was on the Throne and she...
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    Manchester United players clash with Chelsea groundstaff after Stamford Bridge defeat

    Chelsea recorded their 81st game unbeaten at home - a run stretching back to February 2004 - to draw level on 81 points with their opponents Manchester United with just two games remaining to keep the Premier League title race alive. Though in the wake of this defeat, several Manchester United...
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    Teenage Iraqi girl who fell in love with BRITISH soldier is murdered by father

    Teenage Iraqi girl who fell in love with BRITISH soldier is murdered by her own father in honour killing 27th April 2008 Daily Mail Rand Abdel-Qader, 17, was killed by her father after falling in love with a British soldier A teenage Iraqi girl who fell in love with a British soldier...
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    Man who KO'd Galloway with a stress ball is hailed a hero

    The man who KO'd ranting, Left-wing Scottish MP George Galloway after throwing a stress ball at him in London (Galloway was Saddam's best friend and in his Daily Record article this week accused the Royal Family of being "sectarian" as it bans Catholics from become Monarch even though the...
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    To be or not to be, innit: Shakespeare gets a chav makeover

    Yesterday, 23rd April, was not only St George's Day - England's national day - but also the birthday (and the date of the death) of William Shakespeare, England's greatest playwright. So it's two celebrations on one day. But now some of Shakespeare's greatest plays have been re-written so that...
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    Up the pole: How the Eu wants to carve up nation states

    Say goodbye to England, Scotland, France, Holland etc if the unelected EU eurocrats have their way... Up the pole: EU to carve up UK By CLODAGH HARTLEY Home Affairs Correspondent Published: 23 Apr 2008 The Sun Tribute ... Britain's Scottish Prime Minister Gordon Brown will fly...
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    Family tragedy strikes football star Frank Lampard as his mother loses fight for life

    The mother of Chelsea and England midfielder Frank Lampard died last night from pneumonia.... Family tragedy strikes football star Frank Lampard as his mother loses fight for life 24th April 2008 Daily Mail Frank Lampard in action for Chelsea Chelsea star Frank Lampard's mother has...
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    Continental Europeans cause mysterious stink smelled across England

    On Friday, a mysterious smell was smelled by thousands (possibly millions) of people across southern England. Hundreds of people contacted the BBC to ask them if their Weather Centre can come up with an explanation as to what the mysterious stink was. Now the mystery has been solved. The...
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    The Last Shadow Puppets: The Age of the Understatement

    The Last Shadow Puppets release their debut album, "The Age of the Understatement", on 21st April. The band consists of the Arctic Monkeys' Alex Turner and Miles Kane, from Liverpool band The Rascals. The Last Shadow Puppets: The Age Of The Understatement In the lottery, right, and what’s...
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    Blood Red Shoes: Box of Secrets

    Blood Red Shoes are a new British rock band hailing from Brighton, East Sussex (just like The Kooks). They released their debut album, "Box of Secrets", on 14th April. Sharing Their Secrets - Blood Red Shoes by Hazel Sheffield Tuesday, April 15, 2008 Gigwise Brighton, East Sussex band...
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    Shocking pictures which show tearful children forced to fight against their will

    Many people in other countries have remarked how the British just don't seem to like children. A recent article in Time magazine about the treatments of children in Britain also mentions this. And it seems that these suspicions are right. Centuries ago, the British used to make cocks, or...
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    'Unfair' male right of succession to the throne set to be scrapped

    The Solicitor General, Vera Baird, wants to end the centuries-old male right of succession to the throne. She wants a monarch's daughter to have an equal claim to the throne as a son. She also wants to get rid of the law that bans Catholics from the throne. These laws date back to 1701 when...
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    Was World War Two just as pointless and self-defeating as Iraq?

    Was World War Two just as pointless and self-defeating as Iraq, asks Peter Hitchens By PETER HITCHENS 19th April 2008 Daily Mail Was World War II a miscalculated waste of life and wealth that destroyed Britain as a major power (and ultimately led to loss of Empire) and turned her into a...
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    Blow me.... Not-to-be-sniffed-at facts about our hooters

    20 April 2008 DID YOU NOSE? BLOW ME.. NOT-TO-BE-SNIFFED-AT FACTS ABOUT OUR HOOTERS Rachael Bletchly The People A pregnant rhinoceros, an express train or a chain saw - just a few of the phrases used to describe the nightly curse of SNORING. Blocked noses or collapsed nostrils are a...
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    Charles Darwin's theory of evolution drafts go online

    Charles Darwin's theory of evolution drafts go online By Andrew Pierce 17/04/2008 The Telegraph British scientist Charles Darwin, photographed in 1842 with his eldest son William Erasmus Darwin The first drafts of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, which have never before been seen...
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    Margaret Thatcher and the Falklands: How they made Britain great again

    Britain was the world's greatest power before WWII, with a gargantuan empire, the largest the world has ever known and which was at its greatest-ever extent in 1922 under King George VI. After WWII, despite winning that war, Britain never fully recovered from the damages it sustained during...
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    As Brown visits US, Lord Desai calls him a "haggis-like" Prime Minister

    As British Prime Minister Gordon Brown visits America, a Labour Party peer, Lord Desai, says that "Gordon Brown was put on earth to remind people how good Tony Blair was." Lord Desai accuses the British Prime Minister, who is a Scotsman, of being "haggis-like", and says that with Brown as the...
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    Medieval village becomes latest victim of Wikipedia entry

    The ancient, medieval village of Denshaw, in the Pennine hills in northern England, has been targeted by jokesters on Wikipedia... Medieval village accused of having tapeworm outbreak becomes latest victim of Wikipedia entry 17th April 2008 Daily Mail It's a quiet Pennine hamlet best known...