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    David Cameron: Never mind tax, I'm made of wax

    The waxwork of British Prime Minister David Cameron was unveiled at Madame Tussauds on Friday. Cameron's pregnant wife, Samantha Cameron, or SamCam, was at the unveiling, and she gushed: 'They've done the most incredible job,' she said. 'He looks so real.' Also unveiled at the famous London...
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    Liverpool confirm Roy Hodgson as their new manager

    Roy Hodgson was this morning confirmed as the new manager of Liverpool after signing a three year deal. This comes a month after previous manager, Rafael Benitez, quit the club following a poor season. Liverpool finished only 7th in the Premier League, despite finishing 2nd the previous...
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    British forces will be the last to leave Afghanistan

    British Defence Secretary, Dr Liam Fox, has said that British troops will be amongst the last to leave Afghanistan. Both the United States and Canada have said that they will start bringing home their forces from next year, but Fox has said that British troops are unlikely to be in that first...
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    Creepy horseheaded man has appeared on Google Streetview

    Thanks to Google Earth, we now know that an inverted Centaur is roaming Britain's streets. Russel Moffat, from Ellon, Aberdeenshire, was searching for an optician's shop in the city of Aberdeen using Google Earth when he spotted a man with a horse's head standing on the pavement in the...
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    Archaeologists begin dig on buried stone circle TEN times bigger than Stonehenge

    Stonehenge may be Europe's most famous prehistoric monument, but it's certainly not the biggest. It's not even the biggest stone circle. Avebury, nearby Stonehenge in Wiltshire, is much larger than its more famous cousin. But even bigger than both Stonehenge AND Avebury is Marden Henge...
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    Country estate goes on the market for first time in 1,000 years

    A beautiful country house has gone onto the market for the first time in almost 1,000 years. But you'll need to have a bit of money to buy it. Shakenhurst Hall, in Cleobury Mortimer, near Kidderminster in Worcestershire, which is older than many of the world's countries, has an asking price...
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    FIFA boss Sepp Blatter apologises to England over wrongly disallowed goal

    FIFA president Sepp Blatter has apologised to England and to Mexico after two refereeing blunders. On Sunday, England found themselves 2-0 down against Germany after 30 minutes in their Last 16 match of the World Cup. But England scored two goals in just one minute just before half time that...
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    England suffer their biggest ever World Cup defeat thanks to Uruguayan linesman

    There were two parallels in today's Last 16 match in the World Cup between England and Germany with the 1966 World Cup Final played between the two nations. Like 1966, England played in red and Germany in white and also like 1966 there was a controversial "Did it or didn't it cross the line?"...
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    Prince Charles leads tribute to Services on second Armed Forces Day

    Cheering crowds and scorching weather greeted British troops yesterday, the 26th June, during only the second Armed Forces Day. The new national day, which started last year, looks like being a permanent fixture in Britain's calendar thanks to its success. This year, the main focal point of...
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    The British soldier of the future: Star Wars helmet and sharpshooter rifle

    With the British Army taking the brunt of the Taliban's fight in Afghanistan, with a death rate four times that of the wussy US Army, the more protection available to British soldiers the better, especially with it looking like the British Army being in Afghanistan for another 5 years. Now the...
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    Britain's Roman brothel where dozens of unwanted babies were killed

    A farmer's field in Britain has been suspected of once being a Roman brothel - where nearly 100 unwanted prostitutes' babies were slaughtered by the Romans. The site, near Hambleden, Buckinghamshire, identified as a high status Roman villa, was excavated in 1912 and the remains of 97 children...
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    Camilla hails 'best army in the world' as she welcomes the Light Brigade home

    Camilla Parker Bowles, the Duchess of Cornwall, today met 650 troops from 11 Light Brigade after they returned from to Britain's to a hero's welcome after a six month tour of Afghanistan. In what was Britain's biggest ever homecoming parade, the troops marched two miles through the centre of...
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    World Cup 2010: All-red England, and USA, book their passage to the next round

    Football crazy England came to a standstill today to watch their team take on Slovenia in the crucial Group C match in the World Cup. Shopping centres and busy roads were deserted, and public transport and city centres were eerily quiet as millions of people across the nation watched their...
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    Glastonbury 2010: Thousands flock to the festival as temperatures soar

    Usually, the start of the Glastonbury Festival is accompanied by torrential downpours leaving revellers sinking in the mud. This year, though, the start is accompanied by glorious sunshine, blue skies and sweltering heat - it's the weather which has made the government introduce a hosepipe ban...
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    Farmer's fury as crop circle appears next to heart-shaped wood on Summer Solstice

    How fitting it is that on the summer solstice, a time of peace and love, that a crop circle has appeared in a farmer's field right next to a heart-shaped wood. However, the farmer wasn't in the mood for love and pleace - he has said that the crop circle is an act of vandalism. The crop circle...
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    Cambridge students create 200m canal so they can punt at their May Ball

    Clever students at one of the few Cambridge University colleges not set on the river have created a 200m canal to allow them to punt to their May Ball. Students from the breathtakingly beautiful 400-year-old Sidney Sussex spent a week building the canal, which is filled with 88,000 gallons of...
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    Sweden's fairytale royal wedding is Europe's biggest since Charles and Di

    Sweden has just had what has probably been the biggest royal wedding in Europe since Charles and Diana married in 1981. More than 1000 guests, include royalty from across the world, gathered at Stockholm Cathedral to see Crown Princess Victoria, the daughter of King Carl XVI Gustaf, marry her...
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    Afghanistan: British soldiers are dying at FOUR times the rate of American personnel

    Whilst Barack Obama and many Americans continue to display their sickening anti-Britishness at a company that's about as British as Mount Rushmore following the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, it's sobering to learn that British soldiers are dying at FOUR times the rate American soldiers in...
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    World Cup 2010: England fan charged with trespass after team's woeful display

    An England football fan was today charged with trespass by South African police after he entered the England team's dressing room on Friday night following their woeful display against Algeria in the second match of their World Cup campaign to give the team a piece of his mind. England took on...
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    Roy of the Rovers leaps off the bench in England's hour of need

    Never mind Superman, Spiderman or the Incredible Hulk. The greatest comic strip character in the world, of all time, is without doubt Roy of the Rovers. The power of x-ray vision or superstrength is nothing compared to the magic of a powerful left foot. Fictional footballer Roy Race first...