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    Armed police called to toddler with gun in mouth

    Armed police called to toddler with gun in mouth 19th March 2007 Armed police rushed to a supermarket after a toddler was spotted with a gun in its mouth, it has been revealed. The little girl was handed the replica gun by two laughing yobs outside an Asda store in Liverpool earlier...
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    QPR have walloped the Chinese

    Last month, a "friendly" game between West London team Queen's Park Rangers, of the lower reaches of the English league, and China ended in a kung-fu brawl with the QPR players sending home at least seven Chinese stars with severe beatings - one of them with a broken jaw? But what does it show...
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    Lewis Hamilton - From go-kart kid to Grand Prix glory

    Britain has a new sporting hero - Lewis Hamilton. In the first Grand Prix of the season yesterday, the Australian Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton made his debut - and finished Third. He's the first black driver in Formula One history and the youngest driver ever to stand on the podium...
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    How the House of Lords is preferable to anything the US has

    How I learned to love the Lords Michael Moorcock Lost Pines, Texas When I first moved to America in the early 1990s I arrived as a republican, full of a furious rhetoric about the end of monarchy and the abolition of hereditary privilege. I’d sent a hefty donation to Charter 88, who...
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    The longbow

    HOW THE ENGLISH/WELSH LONGBOWMEN DEVASTATED THE FRENCH The longbow as we recognise it today, measuring around the height of a man, made its first major appearance towards the end of the Middle Ages. Although generally attributed to the Welsh, longbows have in fact been around at least since...
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    World Cup: Pakistan coach Woolmer dies after shock loss against Ireland

    With several England stars fined for getting drunk - including intoxicated vice-captain Flintoff sinking a pedalo off the coast of St Lucia - this has been an eventful start of the 2007 Cricket World Cup off the field as well as on it. Now Pakistan's coach Bob Woolmer, a former England player...
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    Outlaw

    Outlaw is being tipped to be one of the biggest British movies of the year. It was released on 9th March..... Outlaw Reviewed By: Angus Wolfe Murray Fighting back against the heritage of an illegal war and a corrupt police force in Blair's Britain. Director: Nick Love Writer: Nick...
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    Cricket World Cup: Drunken England stars dropped for game against Canada

    As only British sports stars can, several of England's players went to bars and drank copious amounts of alcohol, some of them getting drunk. Drunken Andrew "Freddie" Flintoff, England's Vice-Captain, even had to be rescued as he got into trouble when he took a pedalo out to sea. All this...
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    New exhibits portray Jamestown colonists as killers and rapists

    Why can't Americans be grateful for the British colonies in Jamestown and elsewhere? If we didn't colonise America in the first place then America wouldn't exist today..... It's hardly Pocahontas: new exhibits portray Jamestown colonists as killers and rapists By James Langton in...
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    Radio DJ - an unlikely hero of the Falklands invasion

    25th anniversary of the Falklands War. Radio DJ - an unlikely hero of the Falklands invasion By IAN GALLAGHER 18th March 2007 I just did my job: Patrick Watts ran the Falklands Islands Broadcast station for 30 years. In a show of British defiance he continued to stay on air throughout...
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    Fans give new Wembley the thumbs up at test event

    Fans give new Wembley the thumbs up at test event 17th March 2007 Football fans today declared themselves more than happy with the new £800 million Wembley Stadium. Local residents and England supporters were allowed into the ground for a "community day" staged as part of the...
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    Delighted Camilla to become a grandmother

    World Exclusive: Delighted Duchess to become a grandma By KATIE NICHOLL 17th March 2007 Parents-to-be: Camilla's son and Charles's stepson Tom and his girlfriend Sarah Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall have been celebrating the news that they are to become grandparents...
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    New Wembley to host Dolphins VS Giants

    Wembley, England's new national football stadium, is the largest "soccer" stadium in the world with all the seats undercover and the largest in the world with a sliding roof. It has a capacity of 90,000 and its first game - England Under 21s VS Italy Under 21s - is nex Saturday. Today it is...
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    Bedford Book of Hours to go on display

    Bedford Book of Hours to go on display By James Burleigh 17/03/2007 The Bedford Book of Hours, described as "an outstanding work of late medieval manuscript art", is to go on display at the British Library next week. Work on The Bedford Book of Hours probably began between 1410 and...
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    Theatre-loving Italians desert football

    Italians may be deserting football - the game they love as a religion - for cultural pursuits such as the theatre. This is surprising consider that Italy contributes just £1.2 billion a year to culture, compared to £3 billion a year for England and even more for Great Britain as a whole (the...
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    Rowan Atkinson is Osama Bean Laden

    Bin Ha-den ... Rowan Atkinson as Mr Bean in the new Brit movie "Mr Bean's Holiday" released later this year. He is also to play terrorist, inset Rowan is Osama Bean Laden March 17, 2007 MR BEAN actor ROWAN ATKINSON may be about to spark World War Three — by playing Osama Bin...
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    See best Borat mankini pics

    Red Nose Day 2007 See best Borat mankini pics Eeeza nice!!! ... Sun readers brave the cold MORE TOP The Sun By DAVE MASTERS March 17, 2007 JAGSHEMASH! Three barmy Sun readers join the Borat pack - by hitting a beach in skimpy green mankinis (the "male bikini" that Borat likes...
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    Red army in comedy campaign

    Friday was Red Nose Day in Britain, which is held every two years to raise money for the Comic Relief charity which helps poor children in Africa. It's tradition for people to buy comedy red noses to wear, with the proceeds going to Comic Relief and also for people, and celebrities, to host...
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    Judge who condemned Saddam to death seeks asylum in Britain

    Saddam judge flees to seek asylum in UK by GWYNETH REES 17th March 2007 The Iraqi judge who sentenced Saddam Hussein to death has fled to seek asylum in Britain. Raouf Abdel-Rahman, who headed the Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal, arrived in Britain with his family on a visitor's...
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    Beware....the Robo-bird

    Many centres of British towns and cities are infested with thousands upon thousands of pigeons - what many people call the "rats of the bird world." Now one city has come up with a solution - Robo-bird....... Beware...the Robo-bird 16th March 2007 As the peregrine falcon is one of...