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    On the 12th day of Brexit, Theresa gave to me... The start of World War III

    Frankly, I'm sick and tired of being patronised by a Canadian financier with an Irish passport who has become a UK citizen so he can be rewarded with a knighthood for his part in attempting to derail the democratically expressed will of the British people... RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: On the...
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    World's oldest whisky found at medieval abbey

    The oldest whisky still in the world has been uncovered at a medieval abbey where William Wallace took refuge after defeating the English in battle...
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    Gyimah resigns as Science and Universities Minister over Brexit deal

    Remainer Sam Gyimah has resigned as Universities and Science Minister after Theresa May announced she will pull Britain out of the EU's Galileo satellite navigation system...
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    A royal ghost tour: 5 haunted sites around Britain

    A tour of five of the most-haunted sites in Britain... A royal ghost tour: 5 haunted sites around Britain...
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    Revealed: Face of the only man ever to assassinate a British PM

    THIS is the face of the only man to have ever assassinated a British Prime Minister - seen for the first time through fascinating facial reconstruction. Angry businessman John Bellingham shot dead PM...
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    EU leaders agree UK's Brexit deal at Brussels summit

    The UK’s withdrawal agreement from the European Union has been approved by EU leaders, its chief official Donald Tusk has announced...
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    Vegans demand that village of Wool change its name

    An animal rights group has been roundly mocked after suggesting the Dorset village of Wool change its name - as it currently ‘promotes cruelty to sheep’...
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    Thomas Becket's bloodied tunic to return to Canterbury after 850 years

    A bloodstained tunic belonging to former Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket is to be returned to the UK after a 500-year Italian exile...
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    The fallen fortresses of Britain - REBUILT!

    It's wobbly screen time for some of Britain's most impressive ruined castles - because they've been rebuilt using digital wizardry...
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    Leavephobia – the new racism

    The two different responses from the Remainers over two Daily Mail front pages... Leavephobia – the new racism...
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    The Spanish have no greater claim to Gib than they do on Portugal after Brexit

    WITH a Brexit deal close to being agreed, what has happened? Someone has shoved a Spaniard in the works, that’s what...
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    When it comes to Brexit, the BBC uses fact-chuckers and not fact-checkers

    Whether we voted Labour or Conservative, Leave or Remain, we all pay for the BBC through our licence fee. We...
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    Treasure hunter finds buried Celtic chariot

    A metal detectorist has found what is thought to be the first Celtic chariot burial to be uncovered in Wales. The burial ritual was reserved for high-ranking chiefs who would be interred...
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    Hoard king's helmet reconstructed

    A helmet thought to have been worn by a king has been reconstructed nine years after fragments of the original were found within the Staffordshire hoard...
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    Reading King Lear made George III's madness worse

    King George III suffered a bout of mental illness after reading King Lear - Shakespeare’s play about a monarch who descends into madness - according to royal medical records which have been published online for the first time...
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    Eurosceptics were right – the EU wants to be an empire

    Time and time again we are told that the EU has not the remotest intentions of establishing an army, that this is just Little Englander fantasy, and that to speak of the EU as an emergent, undemocratic empire is paranoid xenophobia...
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    The Roman road that came to define Britain

    All roads lead to Rome, the saying goes. Well, all roads except for the Roman road of Watling Street, which at one end takes you to Dover (Dubris) and at the other Wroxeter (Viroconium) in Shropshire...
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    England too good for USA in Rooney's final game

    World Cup semi-finalists England were too good for the USA on Thursday night in a game in which England fans bade farwell to Wayne Rooney. It was the D.C. United striker's last game for England after nearly 16 years, in an international career which has seen him become England's all-time leading...
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    Stopping Brexit means stopping democracy

    I always shudder when I hear people say ‘Let’s stop Brexit’. They say it so casually, so cavalierly. It rolls off the tongue as if it were no big deal. They seem utterly unmoved by what ‘stopping Brexit’ would entail and the consequences it would have. It would mean blocking the largest act...
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    The top 40 horrors lurking in May's Brexit deal

    Theresa May's pathetic 585-page Brexit deal is too lengthy for most people to want to read it all from beginning to end. So here's a list of the top 40 horrors lurking within it...