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    Bananarama are back

    It's become common recently for British bands that split up years ago to re-form. The Police have recently re-formed, as have the Spice Girls and Take That. Now Bananarama - Sara Dallin and Keren Woodward (Siobhan Fahey has left) - are coming back.... Return of the top Bananas 28th July 2007...
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    The Queen wants BBC's faked film banned

    The Lefty BBC, who long for the day for Britain to become a Puritan, Cromwellian Republic, is facing the possibility that it's documentary on the Queen, in which it appeared showed the Queen storming out of a photo shoot in anger (many say the anti-Monarchy BBC did it deliberately) when she was...
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    2nd Test, 2nd Day: India dominant against England

    In the First Test between England and India, England were by far the dominant team. Bad light, though, on the fifth and Final day meant that the match ended as a draw, meaning that the score in the Series remains 0-0. Now, on the second day of the Second Test, the roles have reversed. India...
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    Brown's first meeting with Bush may mean the end of the "special" affair

    This weekend, the new British Prime Minister Gordon Brown meets US President George Bush for the first time.... Brown's first meeting with Bush may mean the end of the 'special' affair By CORRELLI BARNETT 27th July 2007 Daily Mail This weekend Gordon Brown meets George Bush for the...
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    William drums up a storm to celebrate centenary Jamboree

    100 years ago, British man Robert Baden-Powell, a former soldier and a writer, created the Scout Movement. The first Scout encampment took place on Brownsea Island, just of the coast of Poole, Dorset in England, in 1907. The Scouting Movement then spread throughout the British Empire - to Canada...
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    The real life Doctor Who who believes he can build a time machine

    The real life Doctor Who who believes he can build a time machine by MICHAEL HANLON (Science Editor) 28th July 2007 Daily Mail Ronald Mallett: Believes he can build a time machine for £120,000 Suppose it were possible to go back in time and meet the dead. To say all the things you...
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    Iraq United: How football is uniting Iraq

    Football (or "sacker" as North Americans call it), the world's greatest and most popular team sport, is helping to unite Iraqis. Saddam's downfall seems to be working wonders for the Iraqi national team. For the first time ever, the Iraq football team has reached the Final of the Asian Cup...
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    Stage set for Palladium

    New British rockers Palladium have only been together a mere 10 months and don't release their first album until 2008. But they have a new single to listen to beforehand... Star fans ... lads played with Amy Winehouse in former jobs Stage set for Palladium By JACQUI SWIFT July...
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    Newton Faulkner: Hand Built By Robots

    EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW The Sun's Something For The Weekend interviews Newton Faulkner, a British guitar genius, whose album "Hand Huilt By Robots" is released on 30th July. The big, dreadlocked 22 year-old released the single Dream Catch Me on 23rd July... Our answer to Jack Johnson The Sun...
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    World's first prosthetic limb found on 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy

    World's first prosthetic limb found on 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy By JAMES TOZER 27th July 2007 Daily Mail The false toe worn by a 3,000-year-old mummy has always been regarded as a simple ornament, added after death as part of burial rites. But British scientists who have studied...
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    Don't panic.....it's only the latest disaster movie

    These pictures may look as though the Great Flood of 2007, the worst flood to hit Britain in living memory, has finally hit the metropolis of London but they are actually scenes for a new British disaster movie which, coincidentally, is about a great flood, a movie in which Britain is trying to...
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    Ye ende of ye worlde is nigh!

    The Daily Mail's Richard Littlejohn attacks the Left-Wing Guardian newspaper over its scaremongering about Global Warming. He also targets two of its correspondents, George Monbiot and socialist Polly Toynbee. In the article he writes as though it was being reported in a 17th Century version...
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    Sun on front line with troops

    Dawn attack ... British soldier shoots at Taliban fighters EXCLUSIVE Sun on the front line with troops By TOM NEWTON DUNN Defence Editor on the front line in the Upper Gereshk Valley, Afghanistan July 26, 2007 BRITISH troops in Afghanistan are making a daring push into an enemy...
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    The founding fathers of Australia: The story of convicts shipped to the New World

    In the 18th century, a British woman was sentenced to transportation to the British penal colony of Australia. Her crime? Stealing 12lbs of Gloucester cheese. Little did she know that she was one of the founders of a nation. However, as some anti-Pom (anti-British) Australians would have you...
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    ABC of "Elf and Safety" killjoys

    Barmaids ... the EU tried to ban barmaids from wearing skimpy tops ABC of 'Elf and Safety' killjoys July 25, 2007 The Sun TO coincide with the start of the summer holidays, killjoy “Elf & Safety” chiefs from the Institute of Sports and Recreation Management have banned some public...
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    Gerrard blown away by Liverpool's stunning new Stanley Park stadium plans

    Liverpool are to get a stunning, futuristic new stadium in the city's Stanley Park, costing £300 million..... Gerrard blown away by plans for new £300m stadium 25th July 2007 Daily Mail These are the first pictures of Liverpool's new 60,000-seat stadium, with Steven Gerrard admitting he...
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    The EU constitution is back and more dangerous than ever!

    The EU constitution is back and more dangerous than ever! By DANIEL JOHNSON 25th July 2007 Daily Mail Do you remember the European Constitution? Yes, the one rejected by the French and Dutch? That same European Constitution on which the Labour Government promised the British people a...
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    Web will transport 2 million Brits to their Australian convict cousins

    In the days when Britain was the most powerful country on Earth and ruled over much of the planet's people and much of its land, Australia, today a modern, English-speaking Western nation, was nothing more than a British penal colony. Many British felons (many of whose crimes were, in modern...
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    Police tell mother: Don't scold daughter 'because of Maddy'

    Police tell mother: Don't scold daughter 'because of Maddy' 25th July 2007 Daily Mail Ruth Ball and her four-year-old daughter Leigha Missing: Madeleine McCann A mother who scolded her tantrum-throwing daughter in a shop was outraged to be visited at home by police who told her...
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    Sweet serenity of Parliament's secret society

    Sweet serenity of Parliament's secret society By ROY HATTERSLEY (former leader of the Labour Party) 23rd July 2007 Daily Mail The magnificent Westminster Palace is home to Britain's two Houses of Parliament - the House of Commons and the House of Lords. It is one of the largest...