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    Six-kilometre-wide iceberg breaks off from Greenland glacier

    Showing me a picture of an iceberg and telling me it's evidence of global warming is the exact equivalent of showing me a picture of a toadstool and telling me it's evidence of fairies.
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    Six-kilometre-wide iceberg breaks off from Greenland glacier

    I don't understand what the manoeuvrability of my oral commissures has to do with a story about an iceberg which is just an iceberg which has nothing to do with global warming, which doesn't exist.
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    Six-kilometre-wide iceberg breaks off from Greenland glacier

    It's just an iceberg. It is quite normal.
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    Six-kilometre-wide iceberg breaks off from Greenland glacier

    What's this got to do with "climate change"? It's just an iceberg.
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    Three Lions breaks chart record

    After a heart-breaking week for English football fans, Three Lions is number one on this week's official singles chart. It's the first time in chart history a song has scored four spells at number one with the same artist line-up. The original 1996 version had two one-week stints whilst the...
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    Pictures reveal how Britain's heatwave has exposed historical secrets

    Britain's historical secrets have been exposed by scorching temperatures, as the outlines of the nation's lost wonders have emerged in fields and hillsides across the country. Traces of a first century town, a 'ghost garden' from the 1850s and a World War Two airfield have all appeared...
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    Attenborough's "Boaty McBoatface" set for launch

    The 10,000-tonne hull of the UK's new polar ship will be put in the River Mersey later - around 12:20 BST. Named after the TV naturalist Sir David Attenborough, the vessel has been assembled at the Cammell Laird yard in Birkenhead and placed on its slipway. The broadcaster himself will...
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    Prince Louis to be christened tomorrow

    PRINCE Louis’ baptism will see the Royal Family flock to Westminster tomorrow for the much-anticipated event to take place at the prestigious Chapel Royal in St James's Palace central London. But who will christen the 11-week-old tot? REVEALED: Who will baptise Prince Louis at St James’s Palace...
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    Roman skeletons found beneath takeaway

    Three perfectly-preserved Roman skeletons have been discovered buried underneath a takeaway in Lincoln. It’s thought they are part of the same burial ground where 23 skeletons were unearthed in a 2015 dig. One of the graves contained a burial pot which would have been filled with a drink to...
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    Boer War chocolate survives 118 years

    A 118-year-old tin of chocolate sent by Queen Victoria to fighting soldiers has been discovered in a cupboard. The tin, made by Hudson Scott and Sons in Carlisle in 1900, is one of a batch sent to troops in the Boer War. Carlisle tin containing chocolate survives 118 years BBC News 8 July...
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    Theresa May must learn from Angela Merkel about leaders who ignore voters' will

    Tony Parsons on the world's big stories: Merkel, Brexit, Wimbledon, the World Cup, the Trump balloon, Diego Maradona, cheating Colombians, vibrators, Posh and Becks, EU corruption and David Cameron... TONY PARSONS Theresa May must learn from Angela Merkel about leaders who ignore the will of...
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    Football, not rugby, is now the gentleman’s game

    Most British sports fans are familiar with the maxim that ‘football is a game for gentlemen played by hooligans, and rugby union is a game for hooligans played by gentlemen’. It was coined more than half a century ago by Arthur Tedder, then chancellor of Cambridge University, and for...
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    Charles I's personal motto found in one of the last books he read before execution

    A message of hope written by Charles I while he awaited execution 370 years ago has been found in a poetry book which belonged to his jailer on the Isle of Wight. The Latin phrase 'Dum spiro Spero' ('While I breathe, I hope'), which was the king's personal motto, was discovered in a...
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    Lost history of brown bears in Britain revealed

    A new study reveals the hidden history of brown bears in Britain, suggesting they still roamed wild 1,500 years ago. The research raises two scenarios. Either "native bears" went extinct around the early Middle Ages, or they disappeared some 3,000 years ago in the Bronze Age or in...
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    Westminster Abbey secrets revealed by artefacts preserved in dust for centuries

    Once an object falls through cracks between the floorboards, it is commonly accepted that it has, then, slipped away forever. Unsettling this adage, archaeologists have found a treasure trove of lost artefacts preserved in the dust beneath the floor in Westminster Abbey's attic. Objects...
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    8 weird things that happened in July

    Eight weird and interesting things that happened in July... 8 weird things that happened in July through history When did Henry VIII marry Catherine Howard? When was the Rosetta Stone discovered? And when did Neil Armstrong land on the Moon? As the seventh month gets under way, we look back at...
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    Remains of 2,000-year-old wolf found in Scottish Highlands

    The remains of what experts believe to be a 2000-year-old wolf have been unearthed in the Highlands. A digger driver was extracting peat for crofter Duncan MacKay at Rogart in Sutherland when the ancient remains were discovered. The wolf was found approximately five feet down on Friday, and...
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    Witchfinder General 50 years on: Horror has enduring appeal

    A star of the cult film Witchfinder General has spoken of its enduring appeal, 50 years after its release... Witchfinder General star Ian Ogilvy talks of film's appeal By Nic Rigby BBC News, East 1 July 2018 Ian...
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    Fifa may be corrupt but it has done wonders for football

    Jules Rimet would have been horrified by what the World Cup has become. A tournament that has funded the endemic corruption and racketeering within Fifa exposed by the FBI. A tournament whose dubious hosts — Russia this year and Qatar in 2022 — allegedly won the right through bribery; of...
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    Search begins for long lost Bronze Age site

    An ambitious search has been launched to find a mysterious archaeological site known as the Yelland stone row, 30 years after the Bronze Age monument was lost. A team of experts will be exploring marshes around Devon to find the lost ancient site, which is two lines of standing stones...