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    Boudica: scourge of the Roman empire

    Vanessa Collingridge tells the story of that great British national heroine: Boudica... Boudica: scourge of the Roman empire Vanessa Collingridge tells the story of the woman who raised and led a native army in revolt against oppressive Roman rule in Britain in AD 60... This article first...
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    Memo to millennials, that awful feeling you've got is called losing. It happens...

    Cheer up, American millennials! I mean, seriously, CHEER THE **** UP! Oh, I know you’ve had a rough week ever since Donald Trump won the election. But it’s time to get a grip. STOP crying. STOP taking personal days off work to ‘process’ what happened... Memo to millennials, that awful feeling...
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    Ferry chaos after discovery of WW2 bomb in Portsmouth Harbour

    FERRIES have been halted after an unexploded WW2 bomb was found in Portsmouth Harbour. Approximately 200 people are stranded on a ferry called the Commodore Clipper. A Condor Ferries spokesman said: "Due to a possible unexploded ordinance found in Portsmouth Harbour, the...
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    Jeremy Clarkson furious after Argentinian airport worker 'kicks him off flight'

    Former Top Gear star Jeremy Clarkson has claimed an Argentinian airport employee stopped him from boarding a flight from Germany to the UK in a "hate crime". The presenter and his two co-hosts, James May and Richard Hammond, claimed they were "kicked off" the flight from Stuttgart to...
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    Anglo-Saxon tree trunk coffins found

    Archaeologists have discovered 81 "extremely rare" tree trunk coffins at a "previously unknown" early Christian Anglo-Saxon community's cemetery. Found at Great Ryburgh in Norfolk, their "remarkable preservation" was due to the waterlogged conditions of the river valley. The Historic...
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    Quidditch Premier League launches in Britain

    A new league has been set up for the best Quidditch players in the UK. Eight teams will compete for the title of national champions. England's nine regions - the highest tier of subdivision in England - will compete as eight teams (with the North West and North East regions competing as one...
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    PIERS MORGAN: And the award for the worst election loser goes to . . .

    There’s a video currently going viral starring Yoko Ono, in which she gives her response to Donald Trump’s election as new President of the United States of America. It lasts about 15 seconds and consists of Yoko emitting a long, strangled, mournful, high-pitched scream. Imagine the...
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    Labour MP Jo Cox 'murdered for a political cause', the Old Bailey hears

    Labour MP Jo Cox was shot and stabbed to death for a "political and/or ideological cause", the Old Bailey has heard. Thomas Mair, 53, allegedly murdered Mrs Cox outside her constituency surgery in Birstall, near Leeds, on 16 June. He shouted "Britain First" as he carried out the attack and...
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    The earthquakes that rocked Georgian London

    Houses collapsed, sheep ran wild, Westminster Abbey shook and the people trembled in fear of armageddon. Andrew Robinson describes what happened when a series of earthquakes struck London in 1750... The earthquakes that rocked Georgian London Houses collapsed, sheep ran wild, Westminster Abbey...
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    Revealed: The NATO slackers

    Data has revealed the NATO countries who are not spending enough on defence to warrant Donald Trump using US forces to protect them from an attack. The President-elect caused alarm during his election campaign by suggesting Washington would think twice about coming to the aid of an...
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    President of Liberland is not allowed to set foot in the country

    Vit Jedlicka, the president of the tiny eastern European state of Liberland, can no longer enter his country... The man who created a tiny country he can no longer enter By Jolyon Jenkins BBC News 14 November 2016 One man is trying to create a utopia on...
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    Mystery of the Victoria Cross buried in mud on the banks of the Thames

    One of the earliest Victoria Cross gallantry medals ever awarded has been recovered from the mud on the banks of the River Thames. The medal, awarded to a hero of the Crimean War and worth at least £50,000 despite being badly weathered, was found by a treasure hunter ‘mudlarking’ on the...
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    Hillary, Ed Miliband, Corbyn - they are all losers because they just don't listen!

    The inquest into Clinton’s defeat is just beginning. But when it is concluded, it will find she lost for the same reason Ed Miliband lost. And Jeremy Corbyn will lose, and his successor will lose, and a procession of liberals will lose: namely, that the progressive Left long ago stopped being...
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    Britain to deploy batteries of high precision long range missiles on Russia's border

    Britain is to deploy batteries of high precision long range missiles on Russia’s border for the first time since the Cold War. The long range rockets will be moved to Estonia next year amid fears Russian President Vladimir Putin could be planning to invade the country. The rockets are part of...
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    Marine Le Pen causes a stir on Marr

    2016 is the year of Brexit and Trump. Will 2017 be the year of Marine Le Pen, who vows to take France out of the EU? The Front Nationale leader appeared on BBC One's The Andrew Marr Show this morning... Coffee House Marine Le Pen causes a stir on Marr Katy Balls...
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    Remembrance Sunday: Services honour war dead

    A two-minute silence has been held to mark Remembrance Sunday. Services are taking place across the country to honour all those who have died in conflict. The Queen is leading the commemorations at the Cenotaph in London. Prime Minister Theresa May and other party leaders are also...
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    Nigel Farage, Arron Banks and Raheem Kassam meet Trump at Trump Tower

    Nigel Farage has been spotted at Trump Tower as he becomes the first British politician to meet the new President-elect. The interim Ukip leader met with Donald Trump in New York to discuss 'freedom and winning'. Mr Farage has now beaten Prime Minister Theresa May to a summit with Mr Trump...
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    With Brexit and Trump, the world is witnessing the bonfire of the liberal elite

    Here is a widespread populist backlash against a political class whose liberal assumptions ignored and sometimes openly deplored many of the basic principles — patriotism, belonging, community and security — on which our nation states were built. Now, it seems, the voters are making...
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    Bloody scenes as violence mars England's win over Scotland on Armistice Day

    Friday's World Cup meeting between deadly rivals England and Scotland was marred by Armistice Day clashes inside and outside Wembley. Two men were arrested and several were left injured at Trafalgar Square, and at least one fan was ejected from the match itself, as supporters ignored pleas...
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    Beagle 2 'was so close to Mars success'

    Beagle 2, the failed British mission to Mars in 2003, came "excruciatingly close" to succeeding, a study shows. A new analysis of pictures of the Beagle 2 spacecraft shows that it did not crash-land on the Martian surface. Instead, it indicates that the landing went to plan and at least three...