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    Big Lizzie teams up with Big George off the coast of Scotland

    The maritime might of Britain and the US was on show last week as HMS Queen Elizabeth took part in exercises with American warships off the coast of Scotland. Among the US carrier strike group was the USS George H W Bush, which is hosting more than 60 Royal Navy sailors and Royal Marines as...
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    Venezuela and Vichy: why does Socialist brutality get an easier ride than Fascism?

    There is something almost heroic about the refusal of Britain’s hard Left to infer anything from actual results. The routine is always the same. Revolutionaries seize power somewhere and are hailed in Islington as heroes until their regime leads (as socialist regimes invariably lead) to squalor...
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    Get stuffed, Ireland

    The Irish Government under its latest lippy Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, continues the Irish tradition of being bloody difficult and is used like de Valera by the Germans. Varadkar sees Brexit as an opportunity to be a pain in the situpon. He has said the country will not “design a border for the...
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    British MPs demand tougher sentences for Muslim grooming gangs

    Asian grooming gangs' targeting of white teenage girls should be treated as “racially aggravated crimes”, MPs and campaigners have demanded. The government said that “political and cultural sensitivities” must not stand in the way of rooting out the “sickening crime”... 'THIS IS A RACIST...
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    Most Remainers now back principles of Brexit

    The majority of Remain voters now agree that Britain should take control of its borders after Brexit, end the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice and pay little or nothing to leave the EU. A major survey of more than 20,000 people revealed that an overwhelming majority of voters...
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    English prince blamed for massacre is exonerated. It was the French

    An historian has exonerated the Black Prince for a massacre that took place more than 600 years ago, after discovering it was actually committed by vengeful French soldiers... English prince who was blamed for 637 years for a massacre is finally exonerated by historian who says it was actually...
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    The cannibals of Cheddar Gorge

    Human bones discovered in Somerset reveal how cannibal cavemen feasted on each other. Now a beauty spot for tourists, Cheddar Gorge was populated by cannibals 14,700 years ago, who decapitated their dead, filleted the flesh from their bodies and made drinking cups from their skulls. Cannibals...
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    Why should Britain pay billions so jet-set Juncker can keep travelling in style?

    Britain is one of the few nations putting more money into the European Union’s coffers than it takes out, making an annual net contribution of around £10 billion. EU leaders are only happy for one of the club’s biggest benefactors to leave as long as it saves them from picking up the bill. Yet...
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    10 historic events friendly countries see in totally different ways

    You might be surprised by how many friendly nations have totally different takes on shared moments in their pasts. 10 Historic Events Friendly Countries See In Totally Different Ways Morris M. August 2, 2017 Listverse The saying goes that history is written by the winners, but what happens...
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    Uruguay to sell Graf Spee's bronze eagle to raise money for its armed forces

    Uruguay is set to sell a bronze eagle grasping a Nazi swastika recovered from the pocket battleship Graf Spee which was scuttled off Montevideo in December 1939 to help fund its military. The German ship, which was one of the most advanced in the world, had been attacking merchant shipping in...
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    Walkers stalked by growling panther for a mile in Gloucestershire countryside

    A group of walkers claims a “growling black panther” stalked them through a countryside for more than a mile. The big cat followed the group from Woodchester Park boathouse, Gloucestershire, all the way to the car park, a distance of 1.3 miles, after they lost their way... BIG CAT FEARS...
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    Europe needs to stop treating British holidaymakers like cattle if they want tourists

    Do our European neighbours actually WANT British tourists to visit their countries? It sure as hell doesn't feel like it... TONY PARSONS Europe needs to stop treating British holidaymakers like cattle if they actually want tourists to visit This week's carnage...
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    The Queen makes surprise appearance at 150th Aboyne Highland Games

    The Queen has made a surprise appearance at the 150th Aboyne Highland Games. The monarch attended the event on Saturday alone following the Duke of Edinburgh's retirement. Queen makes surprise appearance at 150th Aboyne Highland Games The Queen has made a surprise appearance at...
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    Earthquake hits Scotland

    The biggest earthquake to hit the Highlands in three decades has been widely felt across the region. The British Geological Survey (BGS), which recorded it at about 15:45, said it had a magnitude of 3.8 and was centred on Moidart. Small earthquake felt across Highlands 4 August 2017 BBC News...
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    City of London is Brexit-proof and will still lead Europe

    A big issue in the Brexit debate is what will happen to the City of London. Listening to some people talk, you could be forgiven for thinking all our banks were about to shut down and move overseas. They aren’t and they won’t... GERARD LYONS City of London is Brexit-proof and will...
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    Hitler's She-Wolves

    Innocent girls as young as 10 were turned into savage fighters and sent to "drown Adolf Hitler's enemy in their own blood" during World War II... Hitler's She-Wolves: The innocent girls as young as ten who were turned into savage fighters sent to 'drown the enemy in their own blood'... and paid...
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    Bonnie Prince Charlie wore tartan to woo the Scots

    For many, ‘Bonnie Prince Charlie’ has always symbolised the romantic Scottish rebel, the 'Young Pretender' whose defeat at the bloody Battle of Culloden in 1746 effectively ended the Jacobite Uprising. But a new exhibition at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival seeks to debunk the “shortbread...
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    Blue plaque for Bridge on River Kwai hero

    A man who was the inspiration for Sir Alec Guinness's character in the film The Bridge on the River Kwai has been commemorated with a blue plaque. Brigadier Sir Philip Toosey was the senior Allied officer in a World War Two camp set up by the Japanese in Thailand to build a railway. Two...
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    Passchendaele 100: William and Kate to join commemorations

    The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will join Prime Minister Theresa May in Belgium later to mark the centenary of the Battle of Passchendaele - one of the bloodiest of World War One. Half a million Allied and German soldiers were killed, wounded or went missing in three months of fighting...
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    Trainy McTrainface

    An express train running between two major Swedish cities will be named Trainy McTrainface, after the railway company opened up the name to a public vote Trainy McTrainface: New train in Sweden named as 'revenge for Boaty McBoatface' Updated 20 Jul 2017 ABC News. PHOTO: MTR Express says the...