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    Asda supermarket offers 'free alcohol' in wrong Welsh translation

    Before you empty your car boot in preparation - yes, the offer of free booze at a Torfaen supermarket really is too good to be true. A sign in Cwmbran's Asda for the alcohol-free section...
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    Rod Liddle's least favourite countries 2019

    Every year during Easter Week Rod Liddle draws up a chart of his least favourite countries and distributes the list to close friends and relatives... My least favourite countries in the world...
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    Party like it's 1999BC

    Ancient Britons travelled to huge feasts near Stonehenge from all over the country more than 4,000 years ago, experts have found. It made the prehistoric stone circle the...
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    Why Corbyn's Labour Party bears a chilling resemblance to that of the 1930s

    These are tumultuous times. Across Europe and the West, the old political allegiances are disintegrating and populism is on the rise. Comparisons have been made to the 1930s, an era of economic depression and political instability so extreme it became known as the Devil’s Decade – years...
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    Neolithic dog's head recreated using Orkney skull

    The head of a Neolithic dog has been recreated using a skull discovered in a cairn tomb in Orkney. A forensic artist used 3D images of the 4,000-year-old animal to build the model - complete...
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    Makeover reveals Tudor building's secrets

    A bricked-up window containing 15th Century glass and a Georgian baker's oven have been found during restoration work on a city's "hidden gem". Tunwell's Court has two shopfronts...
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    Avebury started life 4,500 years as monument to honour people living in a house

    A prehistoric monument that boasts the world’s largest stone circle and now stands among the World Heritage Sites may have been designed to commemorate a single, humble house when it was built more than 5,000 years ago...
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    World's most northerly flock of parrots causes flap in Glasgow

    Glasgow's wild parakeet flock is colourful and popular with the locals but their days may be numbered. About...
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    William Shakespeare's London home 'identified by historian'

    New research has shown where William Shakespeare lived in London when he was writing Romeo and Juliet. It was...
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    The messages MPs will be getting from their local Market Square

    We rejoin Sir Toby Amadeira, the MP for the West Country seat of Crumblybottom, after a rather bruising encounter with his local party officers. He decides to visit the famous Crumblybottom market... The messages MPs will be getting from their local Market Square...
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    Farage vows to recruit major household names to the Brexit Party

    Nigel Farage has vowed to bring together prominent business people and academics to stand in the 2019 European Parliament elections as members of his new pro-Brexit party. The former Ukip leader confirmed his Brexit Party will be contesting all 73 seats. His bombshell announcement comes amid...
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    Cambridge win the 165th University Boat Race

    Cambridge have won the 165th University Boat Race on the Thames in London, winning in a time of 16 minutes and 57 seconds, not far short of the course record of 16 minutes and 19 seconds set by Cambridge in 1998...
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    Tiger Roll becomes first horse to win back to back Grand Nationals since Red Rum

    Tiger Roll won a thrilling Grand National to become the first horse since Red Rum 45 years ago to win the Aintree race back-to-back...
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    Britain isn't a European country, but our politicians are desperate to make it one

    I’ve never felt European. We are a more globally minded people, more likely to emigrate to other English-speaking countries than to France or Spain, and our history would seem to have set us on a different course to those nations that haven’t got over defeat or devastation during the...
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    Ireland’s strange decision to become a French colonial outpost

    Seventy years ago this month, a prime minister led a divided nation towards the exit from what was then one of the world’s most important organisations. On that occasion, Ireland was the country wanting to leave and there was no backstop to hold things up. Despite the pleas of the other...
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    Brexit, 293AD: Gold coin with face of rebel Roman discovered by detectorist

    An amateur metal detectorist scouring the grounds of a field in Kent has discovered a perfectly preserved gold coin dating back almost 2,000 years. It is emblazoned with...
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    'European Union' removed from British passports

    The first British passports without the words European Union on the front cover have been issued to the public, despite the delays over Brexit...
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    Tottenham Hotspur unveil new stadium

    London football club Tottenham Hotspur has unveiled its new stadium. The Tottenham Hotspur Stadium is located in the north of the capital and has a capacity of 62,062. It cost almost £1 billion and features the world's first dividing, retractable football pitch, which reveals a synthetic turf...
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    The day they found a Viking martyr in a hole in a wall

    Exactly 100 years ago what are believed to be the bones of St Magnus were rediscovered in the cathedral built in his honour in Orkney. They were originally the centrepiece of a shrine at the twelfth century church in Kirkwall. It is thought the bones were hidden in a pillar during the...
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    The big problem with the ‘Revoke Article 50’ petition

    The petition is not a plea by the pro-Remain lobby for Parliament to vote on revocation, nor that we give it another go: to rehash the arguments about whether or not we should be a member of the EU, and then let the people of this country make their finaldecision on the matter. It simply...