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    Men compete for gold, silver and bronze cravats in the Chap Olympics

    Only the eccentric (and class-obsessed) British can invent Chap Olympics take place. In these games, a groups of chaps (gentlemen) take part in crazy games such as Hop, Skip and Gin & Tonic (G&T), which is like the normal Olympics Hop, Skip and Jump but the athlete carries a G&T and isn't...
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    Beckham brand set to expand with new chain of nightclubs

    Beckham brand set to expand with new chain of nightclubs By KATIE NICHOLL 14th July 2007 Daily Mail Settled in Los Angeles for only a matter of days, David and Victoria Beckham are already hatching a business venture to conquer America. They are planning to establish a chain of elite...
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    SAS members stage revolt as 'PC Plod' joins their secret club

    SAS members stage revolt as 'PC Plod' joins their secret club By CHRISTOPHER LEAKE 14th July 2007 Daily Mail SAS soldiers A bitter row has erupted at Britain's most secretive private club – over an influx of members from the police force. Entrance to the Special Forces Club has...
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    The Enemy - "We'll Live and Die in These Towns."

    British indie band The Enemy, from the city of Coventry, released their debut album - "We'll Live and Die in These Towns" - on 9th July. Tom Clarke (lead vocals, guitar) Liam Watts (drums) Andy Hopkins (bass guitar, backing vocals) The Enemy are an English rock band from Coventry...
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    What if the Campbell diaries were released in an illustrated edition?

    Alistair Campbell was Tony Blair's Director of Communications and Strategy between 1997 and 2003. Throughout his time in Downing Street, Campbell kept a diary which reportedly totalled some two million words giving us a behind-the-scenes look at the Blairs. The diary has just been published and...
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    The Special Relationship will survive - as before

    Special relationship will survive - as before By John O'Sullivan 14/07/2007 Daily Mail 'It's déjà vu all over again," Yogi Berra, the American baseball star, is alleged to have said in a famous malapropism. But it is the literal truth of my response to the reports that the infant...
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    Behaving badly... the BBC and Fincham

    Behaving badly... the BBC and Fincham By Simon Heffer 14/07/2007 The Telegraph The BBC should show the Queen more respect Let us suppose, for a moment, that our beloved Queen had behaved in the way that a BBC trailer originally showed her to have done: that she had stormed out of...
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    Forget the Queen, it's the BBC's love of the Blairs that's the problem

    An interesting article about the lefty Beeb's obsession with former Prime Minister Tony Blair and his wife Cherie, probably the most controversial Prime Minister's consort since Caroline Lamb, the famously unfaithful wife of Prime Minister Melbourne in the 1830s..... Forget the Queen fiasco...
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    How the world would thrive without mankind

    How the world would thrive without mankind By MICHAEL HANLON (Science Editor) 13th July 2007 Daily Mail Six-and-half billion - and rising. That is how many humans crowd our Planet Earth. And there is no doubt that we are wreaking terrible damage on our world. So much so that scientists...
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    Two Elizabeths - A study in contrasts

    The decline of Great Britain as the world's dominant economic, military, political and naval power in the late 1700s, the 1800s and the early 1900s to current levels... Two Elizabeths—A Study in Contrasts How times have changed! Queen Elizabeth I reigned over one of Britain's greatest...
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    Beckham is declared a Los Angeles Galaxy player in front of 11,000 fans

    England midfielder David Beckham was today officially declared a Los Angeles Galaxy player. The world's most famous footballer has joined LA Galaxy to raise the profile of the world's most popular team sport in the United States and to be paid a colossal £128 million. Beckham launches football...
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    Iraq football team beats a country that invaded them in 2003

    Iraq pulled off a shock victory against Australia, one of the countries who invaded Iraq in 2003 and sent the greatest number of troops there after the US and Britain. Australia were the pre-tournament favourites to be crowned wo win the tournament and be crowned Asian Champions. Under the...
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    Brown issues coded warning to the U.S. over aggressive foreign policy

    Brown issues coded warning to the U.S. over aggressive foreign policy 13th July 2007 Daily Mail Prime Minister Gordon Brown has raised eyebrows in Washington by apearing to move away from Blair's foreign policy Gordon Brown has taken a decisive step away from Tony Blair's foreign...
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    How would Natasha Kaplinsky have handled history's biggest stories?

    As the BBC is accused of dumbing down by unveiling a new one minute long news show to be broadcast every night at 8pm..... How would Natasha Kaplinsky have handled history's biggest stories? by DAVID THOMAS 13th July 2007 Daily Mail Has she got news for you: The BBC's Natasha Kaplinsky...
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    The flatpack fighter: Build a Spitfire for a mere £130,000

    The flatpack fighter: Build a Spitfire for a mere £130,000 by NICK McDERMOTT 12th July 2007 Daily Mail The distinctive silhouette against the clouds and the spinetingling roar of its engine caused thousands of young British boys to look skywards. Many dreamed of one day flying a...
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    At last members of the jury, we have a decent judge!

    As the 21/7 attempted bombers are sent down for a minimum of 40 years each Richard Littlejohn does something he isn't often able to do: praise a judge.... At last members of the jury, we have a decent judge! 12th July 2007 Daily Mail RICHARD LITTLEJOHN Over the past decade we have...
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    Queen pays her respects to the fallen of Passchendaele

    The Queen is in Belgium today to pay her respects to Allied (British Empire and French) soldiers who were killed at the Battle of Passchendaele 90 years ago. She will also meet with mebers of the Belgian Royal Family. Queen pays her respects to the fallen of Passchendaele 12th July 2007...
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    BBC lied about Queen's "tantrum"

    The left-wing, republican BBC has been forced to make a grovelling apology after LYING about her storming out of a photo shoot in anger at being asked to remove her crown... BBC lied about Queen's 'tantrum' 12th July 2007 Daily Mail The BBC has issued a grovelling apology to the Queen...
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    Lawrence of Belgravia fights to save Old Kabul

    A British man, Old Etonian Rory Stewart (dubbed Lawrence of Belgravia after the British soldier known as Lawrence of Arabia famed for his liaison role during the Arab Revolt between Britain, their Allies the Hashemite Arabs against the Ottoman Empire in 1918 ), aims to preserve some of Kabul's...
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    British troops blamed for "badger" plague in Iraq

    British troops blamed for 'badger' plague By Graeme Baker 12/07/2007 Daily Mail British forces in the Iraqi city of Basra are being blamed for a plague of vicious badger-like creatures which have attacked livestock – and even humans. Click on picture to watch video Farmers have...