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    Pictured: The amazing catacombs full of mummified monks

    Italy is renowned for probably being the most beautiful country in the world. It has probably the most beautiful architecture and food of any country and its 58 million people probably speak the world's most beautiful language. It has more history and historical artefacts in any small village or...
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    Face of Jesus appears on cider bottle to amazement of pub drinkers

    Drinkers at a pub in Darlington, County Durham, were amazed when the face of Jesus appeared on a bottle of Bulmers cider... Face of Jesus appears on cider bottle to amazement of pub drinkers By PAUL SIMS 1st May 2008 Daily Mail It may have been made from the Forbidden Fruit but for...
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    Moving pictures of 5 daughters attending soldier father's funeral

    The moving pictures of the five daughters of Britain's oldest soldier killed in Afghanistan walking hand-in-hand at his funeral 1st May 2008 Daily Mail The five daughters of the oldest soldier killed in Afghanistan and Iraq supported their mother at his funeral today. Gary Thompson...
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    Manchester United are world's richest team again

    European Cup finalists Manchester United have overtaken Real Madrid to become the world's richest football team....again. Like they dominate Europe, English teams also dominate the 25-team rich list. Arsenal are the 3rd richest team in the world, with Liverpool in 4th. Chelsea are 8th richest...
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    Prem de la Krem - Like in the 70s, English teams are once again dominant in Europe

    Like the late Seventies and early Eighties when English teams such as Liverpool, Nottingham Forest and Aston Villa won the European Cup (aka Champions League) on several successful years, English teams are once gain dominating European football. There has been at least one English team in the...
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    Three and Out (movie)

    Three and Out is a new British movie and is a dark comedy (nearly ALL big British movies are comedies) about a tube driver named Paul Callow (played by Mackenzie Crook who is famous for starring in The Office) on the London Underground who accidentally runs over, and kills, someone with his...
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    Rory-friendly guide to the invisible Cabinet

    Top Gear's politically incorrect Jeremy Clarkson moans that unlike the olden days, many of today's Cabinet members of the Government are virtual unknowns, unlike the household names of Thatcher's Cabinet, for example. Jeremy helps the impressionist and comedian Rory Bremner to get to know the...
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    The super rich just get richer

    Thanks to Labour making the Britain's rich become super-rich, Britain has more billionaires than every country on Earth after the US and Russia.... Hey big spender ... Chelsea football club owner Roman Abramovich. He is worth over $11 billion. Only the US has more billionaires than Russia...
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    I "died" in Jerusalem in 1276

    Does reincarnation exist? The chances are that if you are a Christian (especially a Catholic), a Muslim or a Jew then you won't believe in it, but if you are a Hindu or a Buddhist then you will. But there seems to be a lot of evidence for reincarnation and the Daily Mail's Danny Penman was...
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    Amazing 100 year old colour photos

    Ahhhh. Britain in the first decades of the 20th Century. The country was about a third larger than it is now (315,093 km² compared to 244,820 km² as it is now) and the Empire was still growing (it didn't reach its biggest extent until 1922). In 1900, Queen Victoria was on the Throne and she...
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    Manchester United players clash with Chelsea groundstaff after Stamford Bridge defeat

    Chelsea recorded their 81st game unbeaten at home - a run stretching back to February 2004 - to draw level on 81 points with their opponents Manchester United with just two games remaining to keep the Premier League title race alive. Though in the wake of this defeat, several Manchester United...
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    Teenage Iraqi girl who fell in love with BRITISH soldier is murdered by father

    Teenage Iraqi girl who fell in love with BRITISH soldier is murdered by her own father in honour killing 27th April 2008 Daily Mail Rand Abdel-Qader, 17, was killed by her father after falling in love with a British soldier A teenage Iraqi girl who fell in love with a British soldier...
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    Man who KO'd Galloway with a stress ball is hailed a hero

    The man who KO'd ranting, Left-wing Scottish MP George Galloway after throwing a stress ball at him in London (Galloway was Saddam's best friend and in his Daily Record article this week accused the Royal Family of being "sectarian" as it bans Catholics from become Monarch even though the...
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    To be or not to be, innit: Shakespeare gets a chav makeover

    Yesterday, 23rd April, was not only St George's Day - England's national day - but also the birthday (and the date of the death) of William Shakespeare, England's greatest playwright. So it's two celebrations on one day. But now some of Shakespeare's greatest plays have been re-written so that...
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    Up the pole: How the Eu wants to carve up nation states

    Say goodbye to England, Scotland, France, Holland etc if the unelected EU eurocrats have their way... Up the pole: EU to carve up UK By CLODAGH HARTLEY Home Affairs Correspondent Published: 23 Apr 2008 The Sun Tribute ... Britain's Scottish Prime Minister Gordon Brown will fly...
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    Family tragedy strikes football star Frank Lampard as his mother loses fight for life

    The mother of Chelsea and England midfielder Frank Lampard died last night from pneumonia.... Family tragedy strikes football star Frank Lampard as his mother loses fight for life 24th April 2008 Daily Mail Frank Lampard in action for Chelsea Chelsea star Frank Lampard's mother has...
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    Continental Europeans cause mysterious stink smelled across England

    On Friday, a mysterious smell was smelled by thousands (possibly millions) of people across southern England. Hundreds of people contacted the BBC to ask them if their Weather Centre can come up with an explanation as to what the mysterious stink was. Now the mystery has been solved. The...
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    The Last Shadow Puppets: The Age of the Understatement

    The Last Shadow Puppets release their debut album, "The Age of the Understatement", on 21st April. The band consists of the Arctic Monkeys' Alex Turner and Miles Kane, from Liverpool band The Rascals. The Last Shadow Puppets: The Age Of The Understatement In the lottery, right, and what’s...
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    Blood Red Shoes: Box of Secrets

    Blood Red Shoes are a new British rock band hailing from Brighton, East Sussex (just like The Kooks). They released their debut album, "Box of Secrets", on 14th April. Sharing Their Secrets - Blood Red Shoes by Hazel Sheffield Tuesday, April 15, 2008 Gigwise Brighton, East Sussex band...
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    Shocking pictures which show tearful children forced to fight against their will

    Many people in other countries have remarked how the British just don't seem to like children. A recent article in Time magazine about the treatments of children in Britain also mentions this. And it seems that these suspicions are right. Centuries ago, the British used to make cocks, or...