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    Russian flag flown from Salisbury Cathedral

    A Russian flag has appeared briefly on scaffolding outside Salisbury Cathedral. It was spotted by workers early on Sunday but has since been removed. John Glen, the city's MP, called it a "stupid stunt" in light of last year's Novichok attack. Russian flag flown on Salisbury...
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    Tests confirm bed did belong to Henry VII

    An intricately carved oak bed once dumped in a hotel car park has been revealed by DNA testing as the likely place where Henry VIII was conceived. The testing was...
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    The pirate queens of the Caribbean

    A historian has shed new light on the real Pirates of the Carribean - including two fearless lady pirates who cursed like men, wielded machetes and exposed their breasts to dying victims to show them they were killed by a woman in disguise...
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    London's secret billion-pound guilds

    London's trade guilds date back a thousand years and have billions of pounds in assets. But have they forgotten one of their original purposes - to spend money on the public good...
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    The British football club that will be staying in the EU after Brexit

    Derry City is a Northern Irish football club. But rather than play in the Northern Ireland Football League (NIFL) it plays in the Republic of Ireland's League of Ireland Premier Division. This means that Derry City will become the only British team to be competing in a domestic EU league after...
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    People’s Vote campaigners know they’re championing a lost cause

    Although they may not admit it when pressed on Sky News or the BBC, those proposing a People’s Vote are not oblivious to the risks attached. The likes of Umunna, Soubry et al. know that the idea that the elite failed to implement the verdict of 2016 would play into the hands of populist leavers...
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    Time To Go

    ‘Time To Go’ Venezuela Times 15 February 2019...
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    Hundreds of witches' marks discovered in limestone caves

    Hundreds of bizarre markings on the inside of a network of limestone caves, originally thought to be graffiti markings from the Victorian era, have been found to be 'witches' marks' from the 17th and 18th centuries...
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    Forget Project Fear. It's actually Project Cheer

    Why all the Brexit gloom? Forget the 'Eeyores', just take a look at the figures... ROSS CLARK Wage...
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    Chocolate coin turns out to be gold Anglo-Saxon pendant

    An amateur metal detectorist has compared finding a 6th century Anglo-Saxon pendant in a muddy field to 'winning the lottery'. The shiny piece of gold was originally...