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    Arctic Monkey Alex goes ape for Alexa

    Arctic Monkey Alex Turner has fallen for a girl who is, appropriately, called Alexa..... Monkey Alex goes ape for Alexa I bet that you look good singing karaoke ... Alex and Alexa hook-up July 09, 2007 The Sun ALEX TURNER has a way with words in his hit songs – but his chat-up...
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    Revived threats of a two-speed Europe need not be taken too seriously

    Charlemagne The two-speed myth Jul 5th 2007 From The Economist print edition Revived threats of a two-speed Europe need not be taken too seriously BRUSSELS has played host to many lost causes over the years. Charlemagne's favourite is the harmlessly dotty rattachiste movement, which...
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    Parisians urged to be nice

    July 9, 2007 The Times Parisians urged to be nice Adam Sage in Paris In a recent worldwide poll, Paris was voted the third most beautiful city in the world - in terms of architecture, monuments, glamour, etc - after Sydney and London The tourist lost near the Place de l’Opéra in...
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    Prince set to be Gurkha Harry

    Prince Harry is to join one of the British Army's most feared regiment - the Gurkhas. Knife ... how Harry might look as a Gurkha Prince set to be Gurkha Harry By JAMIE PYATT July 09, 2007 The Sun Fearsome: A British Army Gurkha cleaning his deadly Kukri knife SOLDIER...
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    21/7 plotters - three found guilty

    Guilty ... Ibrahim Guilty verdicts in 21/7 case By ONLINE REPORTER July 09, 2007 THREE men were found guilty today of an extremist Muslim plot to launch a series of suicide bomb attacks on the London transport system exactly two weeks after 7/7. Muktar Said Ibrahim, Yassin Omar and...
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    Baby born at 7am on 07/07/07...and she's her parents' seventh child

    The British baby born at a "lucky" time" - 07/07/07 at 7am at, appropriately, Good Hope Hospital......in delivery room 7 Baby born at 7am on 07/07/07...and she's her parents' seventh child 8th July 2007 Daily Mail Some of us, it is said, are born lucky. And there can be few people with...
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    World War II code breaker dies in motorway crash

    A World War II codebreaker, who worked at the famous Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire, famous for being the location of the world's first computer and where the German Enigma machine was cracked by the British (although a certain Hollywood - U-571) movie shamelessly depicts Americans cracking...
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    EU treaty: the great double deception

    Christopher Booker's notebook By Christopher Booker, Sunday Telegraph 07/07/2007 EU treaty: the great double deception Many people must have rubbed their eyes in disbelief at Gordon Brown's statement to MPs last Tuesday when, in announcing his new "constitutional settlement", he...
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    Warnings of 15 years of terror from new security minister

    Warnings of 15 years of terror as new security minister calls for some un-British 'snitching' to fight extremists 8th July 2007 Daily Mail Terror warnings: Admiral Sir Alan West Tackling radicalisation could take 15 years, Gordon Brown's new security minister has warned as he...
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    Ministers eye Her Majesty's swans

    Ministers eye Her Majesty's swans By Ben Leapman, Home Affairs Correspondent, Sunday Telegraph 07/07/2007 Daily Telegraph Swan-upping on the Thames. Traditionally, the Monarch owns all unmarked mute swans on the River Thames Here the cygnets have been caught and are weighed in a red...
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    London commemorates 2nd anniversary of 7/7 bombings

    London remembers July 7 Tube bombings 7th July 2007 Daily Mail The second anniversary of the July 7 London bombings will be marked today by survivors and relatives. Hundreds are expected to gather at Kings Cross station shortly before 9am, when the first bomb exploded two years ago...
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    Live Earth is promoting green to save the planet - what planet are they on?

    Live Aid is promoting green to save the planet - what planet are they on? 7th July 2007 Daily Mail As Madonna bounds on to the huge 90,000 capacity Wembley Stadium stage in London to save the planet, how the assembled Greenies will cheer. The superstar is today fronting the massive Live...
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    Tour de France starts today - in London

    The Tour de France gets under way today - but this year the race is also being held in England. The race starts in London and goes through neighbouring Kent before heading across the Channel to France. Our clean pair of wheels By ALEX BANNISTER 6th July 2007 Daily Mail Today's Tour de...
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    The new anti-Semitism: How the Left reversed history to bring Judaism under attack

    The new anti-Semitism: How the Left reversed history to bring Judaism under attack 6th July 2007 Daily Mail RICHARD LITTLEJOHN On the side of St George's Town Hall in the East End of London, there's a mural commemorating the Battle of Cable Street in 1936, when tens of thousands of...
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    Arctic Monkeys blast Live Earth "hypocrites."

    Arctic Monkeys Blast Eco 'Hypocrites' Friday July 06, 2007 Sky News Live Earth, July 7th 2007 (London, New York, Sydney, Johanannesburg, Hamburg, Shanghai, Tokyo) http://www.liveearth.org/ Top rock bands have boycotted Life Earth concerts saying the artists taking part are hypocrites...
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    Manchester City unveil Sven Goran Eriksson as new manager

    Man City unveil Sven By Vicki Hodges and agencies 06/07/2007 The Telegraph Former England coach Sven-Goran Eriksson has officially been confirmed as Manchester City's new manager and has signed a three-year deal at Eastlands. Back in the fold: Eriksson held training earlier in the week...
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    Stop the guff about British resolve Gordon, only the Royals can unite us all

    Why the Queen and the Royals remain important, especially at times of crisis... Stop the guff about British resolve Gordon, only the Royals can unite us all By TOM UTLEY 5th July 2007 Daily Mail Something that's been bothering me all week is Gordon Brown's solemn statement to the TV...
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    Fergie gets his dream ticket as Carlos inserts the final piece into Euro jigsaw

    English Champions Manchester United have just bought Argentinian star Carlos Tevez from West Ham United, further strengthening their squad. With Rooney, Tevez and Ronaldo, other teams should be quaking..... Fergie gets his dream ticket as Carlos inserts the final piece into Euro jigsaw By...
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    Gordon orders Whitehall to fly the flag in boost for Britishness

    Gordon orders Whitehall to fly the flag in boost for Britishness By JANE MERRICK and IAN DRURY 6th July 2007 Daily Mail In full flight: The Union Flag The Union Flag will be a permanent fixture over every public building in Whitehall from today, for the first time in history...
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    How the Lefty BBC inspires British terrorism

    How the BBC inspires British terrorism James Lewis How could Muslim doctors want to bomb innocent young party goers in their own country? Because for decades the BBC has been telling them how evil Britain and the West really are, every single day, without ever being questioned. Even without...