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    Pizza Hut's caramel and marshmallow pizza looks yummy

    They'll have that in Scottish Pizza Huts soon - and they'll deep fry it, too.
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    Fossilised crocodile tooth 'largest of its kind in UK'

    A prehistoric fossil tooth found off Chesil Beach in Dorset is the biggest of its kind ever found in the UK. The tooth, which measures 2in in length, was dredged from the seabed off Chesil Beach, which forms part of the 96-mile long, fossil-rich Jurassic Coast. It belonged to an ancient...
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    Plantagenet Alliance loses battle to have Richard III buried in York

    The Plantagenet Alliance, distant relatives of Richard III, have lost their battle in the High Court to have the last Plantagenet monarch interred in York. It means that Richard will, after all, be interred in Leicester Cathedral later this year, in the same city where he was found in 2012...
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    Edward II in profile

    King Edward II is the English monarch who famously lost the Battle of Bannockburn against Robert the Bruce in 1314 and who was murdered for being gay - his gay relationship with Hugh Despenser alienated Edward's queen Isabella - by having a red-hot poker shoved up his anus at Berkeley Castle in...
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    Springwatch, series 10

    A great British institution returns tomorrow night for its tenth series. The BBC's Springwatch has, alongside its sister series Autumnwatch, been on our screens every year since 2005 (with Winterwatch starting in 2012) and, this year, will be on every night from Monday to Thursday for the...
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    World's most complete woolly mammoth goes on display at Natural History Museum

    The world's most complete woolly mammoth has gone on display at the Natural History Museum in London. Lyuba - whose name means "love" in Russian - was just one month old and just over four feet long when she died in the vast and frozen Russian wilderness 42,000 years ago. She was discovered in...
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    Nottingham: The city where they keep finding caves

    Nottingham, Britain's ninth-largest city, is not only famous for Robin Hood and his Merry Men and its lace-making, bicycle and tobacco industries, but it's also famous for its plethora of caves. There are 544 known man-made caves throughout the city, with 100 of them only -re-discovered within...
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    Does this skull belong to a soldier of the Battle of Hastings?

    This skull could be the first-ever recorded victim of the Battle of Hastings. Experts have revealed that it belongs to a 45-year-old man who was hacked six times with a sword to the back of his head – and could provide first-hand evidence of the brutal battle of 1066. No bones have...
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    The Queen visits Royal Navy frigate HMS Lancaster

    The Queen yesterday visited the Royal Navy Type 23 frigate HMS Lancaster, almost 24 years to the day after Her Majesty launched her. The ship's crew welcomed the Queen - who is the symbolic Commander-in-Chief of the British Armed Forces - onboard at Portsmouth Naval Base. The national anthem...
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    Engineer finds Bronze Age gold tribal necklace worth £20,000 in farmer's field

    A metal detectorist has found a Bronze Age gold tribal necklace worth £20,000 in a field full of grazing cows in Dorset. David Spohr, an engineer, had just about given up on his search in the field near the market town of Blandford Forum in the Tarrant Valley and head back for his lunch when...
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    Scientists in cover-up of ‘damaging’ climate view

    It's actually the Warmists who are in denial. A cold Arctic summer has led to a record increase in the ice cap, leading experts to predict a period of global cooling. Global warming? No, actually we're cooling, claim scientists - Telegraph Global warming stopped 16 years ago, reveals...
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    The Caribbean colony that brought down Scotland

    In the 1690s, Scotland tried to found a Scottish Empire on the Isthmus of Panama on the Gulf of Darien in Central America. But the scheme was a massive failure and led to an impoverished Scotland unifying with its much larger and richer neighbour England. The late 17th century was a difficult...
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    Prince Harry pays tribute to Estonia's soldiers during visit

    Prince Harry has paid tribute to the "professionalism and bravery" of Estonian troops during the first day of his visit to the little Baltic state. He paid his respects to soldiers who died fighting for the country by laying a wreath at a national monument in Freedom Square in the Estonian...
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    The Elephant Man's mother gets new headstone in Leicester

    The Elephant Man's mother has got a headstone on her grave in Leicester. Mary Jane Merrick's family were unable to afford a headstone for her when she died in 1873. A group dedicated to keeping her son's memory alive organised the event at Welford Road Cemetery. Her son's name, Joseph, has...
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    Is this the skeleton of legendary 16th century devil dog Black Shuck?

    The British Isles are awash with ancient legends of ghostly black dogs. These demonic entities, also known as hellhounds, are said to roam the length and breadth of Britain and Ireland, and many are said to be harbingers of doom. Each region has its own version - In Lancashire the black...
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    Scientists in cover-up of ‘damaging’ climate view

    This story doesn't surprise me. Global Warming was proven to be a con and a big lie when Climategate occurred.
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    Michael Palin's New Europe

    Michael Palin is today as well-known for his televised adventures around the world as he is for being a Python. His travels since the 1980s have seen him travel from Pole to Pole, around the Pacific Rim, across the Sahara Desert, through the Himalayas and, most recently, around Brazil, a...
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    World's first customisable Braille phone launches for £60

    London-based company OwnFone has launched the world's first customisable Braille phone to give visually impaired people more independence and confidence with mobile devices. The company uses 3D printing to add personalised buttons to the front of the phone for specific contacts. The...
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    Battle of Lewes: England's first fight for democracy?

    750 years ago today the Battle of Lewes took place, a milestone marked by the recent creation of the Battle of Lewes Tapestry, unveiled in Lewes today. The tapestry, which is similar to the Bayeux Tapestry which depicts the Battle of Hastings, took a team of 60 embroiderers two years to make...
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    14th century ale tankards and pipes found near London Bridge

    Ale tankards and pipes used by drinkers in London over 650 years ago have been found near London Bridge. As part of the Thameslink Programme, which is extending the Thameslink rail system, which runs between Bedford and Brighton through London, from 68 stations to 100 stations, archaeologists...