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    Greta Thunberg Bristol strike: Row over College Green damage

    Hundreds have called for the organisers of a Greta Thunberg climate change rally to pay for damage caused to green space. Around 15,000 people are believed to have attended Friday's Bristol Youth Strike 4 Climate rally, churning up College Green and angering many. A fundraiser was set up for...
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    Telescopes detect 'biggest explosion since Big Bang'

    Scientists have detected evidence of a colossal explosion in space - five times bigger than anything observed before. The huge release of energy is thought to have emanated from a supermassive black hole some 390 million light years from Earth. The eruption is said to have left a giant dent in...
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    Britain ready to quit European Convention on Human Rights

    Britain is ready to quit the European Convention on Human Rights which blocked the deportation of dangerous foreign criminals, setting up a row with the EU and within Tory ranks...
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    UK's "First Lady" reveals she is pregnant

    British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his girlfriend Carrie Symonds have announced they are expecting their first baby and that they are to marry...
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    St David: Ten things about the Patron Saint of Wales

    Celebrations are taking place for St David's Day - but how much do we actually know about him? St David: Ten things about the Patron Saint of Wales...
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    How Boris Johnson inspired Margaret Thatcher's defiant 'No! No! No!' speech

    In a defiant cry against further European integration, Margaret Thatcher declared to the Commons in 1990: 'No, no, no'. Her declaration, which came at a time of intense Tory divisions...
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    How big business failed in its plot to stop Brexit

    Behind the backs of the British people, the well-upholstered felines of big business were being told that a huge Commons defeat for May’s withdrawal agreement (it had just lost by 230 votes) did not mean that Brexit would go ahead on WTO terms at the end of March...
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    Priti Patel and the ugly prejudice of her critics

    Isn’t it amazing how all the woke rules for how to talk about women and people of colour go flying out the window when it comes to Home Secretary Priti Patel? You can say anything you like about Patel and the PC set won’t bat an eyelid. In fact they will cheer you on. Patel is possibly...
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    Portsmouth great-great-grandmother celebrates her 25th birthday

    A party has been thrown for a woman born 100 years ago who has only had an actual birthday every four years. Doris Cleife will hit the milestone on Leap Day - 29 February - which is only...
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    Thor blimey! Hordes of Vikings parade through Norfolk town

    Hordes of Viking reenactors took to the streets of Norfolk brandishing burning torches and carrying a 28ft longship as the eighth annual Scira Viking Festival drew to a close. The final day of the festival held in Sheringham, Norfolk, saw more than 150 actors descend onto the West Prom Beach...
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    How did ewe get up there? Three sheep mysteriously found on shop roof

    Three lost sheep found their way onto a roof in Cumbria after escaping from their field. Andrew Laverick, 49, spotted the animals 'chilling' on the tiles in Glenridding, the Lake District, and called a farmer...
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    London predator dubbed 'The Monster' was never caught because they got the wrong man

    A historian has shed new light on a little-known predator who terrorised London a century before Jack the Ripper by luring them with flowers and stabbing them in the buttocks. Dr Jan Bondeson, a consultant physician at Cardiff University, has revealed serious doubts about whether the man...
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    The EU's stifling regulation of AI is a huge opportunity for Brexit Britain

    With the UK free now to diverge on EU regulations, we can forge our own path forward in the world of AI... The...
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    6,000-year-old leaf is found in Lancashire

    A perfectly-preserved leaf that fell from an elm tree 6,000 years ago has been discovered intact in Lancashire...
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    Medieval chapel destroyed in the Civil War is uncovered

    A stunning 14th century medieval chapel gas been uncovered in County Durham, 370 years after it was destroyed in the wake of the First English Civil War. Part of Auckland...
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    Rome unveils 6th century 'tomb of wolf-suckled King Romulus'

    An ancient tomb believed to be the final resting place of the legendary 'wolf-suckled' King Romulus - the founder of Rome - has been unveiled to the public for the first time in a series of new images...
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    Mildenhall Treasure: British Museum steps in to row over Roman hoard

    The British Museum has stepped in to a bitter row between two communities over the name of one of Britain's biggest treasure finds. The 4th Century hoard found at West Row, Suffolk, was...
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    The left's problems with British Indians

    British Indians make up a large part of the Johnson Administration, and the Left doesn't like it... The left’s problem with British Indians Indians are now represented at the top of British politics, and the identitarian left is furious. RAKIB EHSAN COLUMNIST 20th February 2020 Spiked...
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    Fifty years on, how Birmingham gave birth to heavy metal

    Fifty years ago a Birmingham band called Black Sabbath gave rise to heavy metal... How Birmingham gave birth to heavy metal...
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    Eggware Road: Workman stuns commuters by eating Full English on London Underground

    A hungry workman stunned fellow commuters by getting on the Tube balancing a full English breakfast and a cuppa. The bloke, thought to be a builder, got on the Victoria line from...