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    Emperor of Exmoor, UK's largest wild animal, has been shot dead

    Just several weeks ago he hit the headlines after some lucky photographer managed to take some photos of him. At nine feet tall, the Emperor of Exmoor, or the Exmoor Emperor, was Britain's largest wild land animal. The giant red deer stag weighed as much as two men - a whopping 24 stone - and...
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    Ghostly phonecalls increase by 43% over four years

    A British paranormal investigator has said that ghosts are trying to make contact with the living using mobile phones. Phil Hayes, of Paranormal Research UK, has said that the number of phonecalls to mobiles by ghosts has increased by 43% over the last four years. The calls often feature...
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    Queen Catherine: Kate Middleton appears in public for first time in 104 days

    Future Queen, Kate Middleton, has appeared in public for the first time in three months. Yesterday she was with her boyfriend, Prince William, at the wedding of William's friend Harry Meade in Northleach, Gloucestershire. This has further fuelled speculation that a royal marriage is not too...
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    The siblings who are the world's oldest family

    Five British siblings are set to enter the records books as the world's oldest family The Bartletts were born during the reigns of Edward VII and George V and have lived through 19 PMs and five monarchs. The five - Kathleen, 102, Gladys, 100, Lillian, 94, Leonard, 92, and Courtney, 86 - have...
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    Tony Blair's sister-in-law converts to Islam after "holy experience" in Iran

    Tony Blair's sister-in-law converts to Islam after "holy experience" in Iran The sister-in-law of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has converted to Islam. Lauren Booth, who is the sister of Blair's wife Cherie and was a vocal critic of the Iraq War, said she now wears a hijab head...
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    5mph runaway traction engine crashes into garden wall

    It is a very British road accident - a runaway traction engine, with a top speed of 5mph, crashes into a garden wall. The driver of the 130-year-old vehicle lost control on a steep hill in Ford, Gloucestershire, and the vehicle bounced off a parked car before colliding with a garden wall...
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    Two English football fans in hospital after being stabbed by Italian hooligans

    Two English football fans are in an Italian hospital after being stabbed by Italian football hooligans in Naples. The two men - a 53 year old and a 27 year old - were amongst hundreds of Liverpool fans in the southern Italian city to watch tonight's Europa League game between Napoli and...
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    Prince William and Kate to marry next year - and it will be national holiday

    Prince William and his girlfriend Kate Middleton are to get married next year. Their formal engagement will be announced early in 2011 followed by a summer wedding - which will be a national holiday. It'll be the greatest royal wedding since the marriage of William's parents, Charles and...
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    The moment BBC's Nick Robinson loses his cool at anti-war protestors

    The BBC's political editor, Nick Robinson, has become a YouTube hit after he lost his cool when heckled by some annoying, bad-mannered left-wingers. Robinson was heckled by some placard-waving anti-war protestors whilst doing a live television broadcast outside the Houses of Parliament. So...
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    Halloween hat killers jailed for life

    Three "primeval" thugs who murdered an IT expert after they stole his girlfriend's Halloween hat were jailed for life at the Old Bailey yesterday. Ben Gardner, 30, was on a Saturday night out in Sutton, Surrey with his girlfriend Allana, 28, on 31st October last year to celebrate Halloween and...
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    Fetch, Daisy! The udderly crazy calf

    Henry may be a bull, but he actually thinks he's a dog. The Aberdeen Angus-Belgium Blue cross was taken in by farmer Ben Bowerman when he was born and grew up with border collies Algy and Arthur on Ben's farm near Swanage, Dorset. Now, despite being weaned and put out with the herd, Henry...
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    Campaign underway to contruct to build Babbage's Analtyical Engine

    A campaign is underway in Britain to build a truck-sized, prototype computer that was conceived back in the early nineteenth century. In 1837, when Victoria came to the Throne and Britain was an industrial and entrepreneurial behemoth populated by people coming up with clever ideas and then...
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    50 oil tankers stranded due to climate change protest

    Hundreds of left-wing protestors yesterday did what left-wing protestors are good at doing - causing misery, mayhem and unnescessary disruption to thousands of people who just want to get on with their lives. The climate change protestors - from the group Crude Awakening (all kids who look...
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    Rare dormice move into village railway station's ticket machine

    Passengers at a Buckinghamshire train station were a bit bemused when the ticket machine had stopped working, causing delays to their journeys to work. And when customer service manager Mark Cooper opened the ticket machine at Little Kimble station in Aylesbury, he discovered the cause of the...
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    Scottish free prescriptions spark anger in England

    With Britain just recovering from a devastating recession and the new Coalition Government having to make necessary cuts due to the high debt left to us by the previous Labour Government, it was hoped in England that Scotland's preferential treatment and all the great freebies given to the...
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    The Uffington White Horse may actually be a dog, says vet

    The ancient Uffington White Horse may actually be a dog, a vet has said. Olaf Swarbrick has said that the 3,000 year old, 374 foot long carving filled with crushed white chalk on top of White Horse Hill in Oxfordshire has more canine-like rather than horse-like features. But the National...
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    Work starts in Portsmouth on £36m Mary Rose museum

    Work has started on the £36 million state-of-the-art Mary Rose museum in Portsmouth which will house the flagship of Henry VIII's navy. The Mary Rose, England's first gunship, was lauched in 1511, just two years into Henry's reign, but was sunk by a French ship (or so the French say) in the...
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    Princess Beatrice in car crash horror as BMW smashed between bus and coach

    Princess Beatrice has been left shaken after being involved in a car crash on one of London's most notorious roundabouts. The 22-year-old granddaughter of the Queen crushed her BMW between a double decker bus and a coach at Hyde Park Corner, just yards from her grandparents' home Buckingham...
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    Serbian football hooligans cause game against Italy to be abandoned

    Thousands of rioting Serbian football hooligans have left 14 people injured. And the Euro 2012 qualifier between Serbia and Italy in Genoa was abandoned. The match was abandoned at 0-0 by the Scottish referee after just six minutes after Serbian thugs threw flares onto the pitch and at Italian...
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    5 foot puma on prowl at Kent leisure complex

    The residents of the Kent town of Royal Tunbridge Wells will have to keep their guard - after a PUMA was spotted wandering the town. Two women spotted the five foot beast roaming near bins at a leisure park. And staff at the complex have heard terrifying growls coming from the nearby woods...