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    Apaches pass trial by fire

    Apaches pass trial by fire By Craig Hoyle British Army praises combat performance of its new attack helicopter during Afghanistan campaign Nine months into its first operational deployment using the Westland/Boeing Apache AH1 attack helicopter, the British Army has issued a glowing...
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    William WILL get married to Kate, MPs told

    William WILL get married to Kate, MPs told 6th March 2007 The Prince and his potential bride Prince William and Kate Middleton will get married, MPs have been told. A House of Commons select committee has heard that William, 24, had spoken openly about his plans. Respected royal...
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    Andrew flies to see his troops in Basra.

    Andrew flies to see his troops in Basra 5th March 2007 Colonel in Chief: Falklands War veteran Prince Andrew (on the right) visits troops in Basra. He is the Colonel-in-Chief of the 1st Batallion The Yorkshire Regiment. The regiment formed only last year. The Duke of York donned...
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    Police probe allegations of West Ham anti-Semitism

    Police probe allegations of West Ham racist chanting 6th March 2007 Daily Mail More problems: West Ham United's Icelandic owner Eggert Magnusson. When he bought West Ham earlier in the season he thought he had bought a good team. Last season they reached the FA Cup Final against...
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    19 stone bowler cries 'owzfat!

    England thrashed minnows Bermuda in a friendly one-day game, winning by 241 runs. This year's Cricket World Cup, which starts later this month, is the very first that Bermuda will play in. But you should just see the size of one of the Bermudan bowlers.... 19 stone bowler cries 'owzfat!*...
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    The Warrior Queen who fought the might of the Roman Empire

    Boudica - England's Warrior Queen who fought the Roman Empire Statue of Boudica near Westminster Pier, London, with her two daughters upon her chariot which had spikes coming out of its wheels. The Romans flogged Boudica and raped her two daughters. As revenge Boudica and her soldiers...
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    DNA tests on Princes in the Tower

    DNA tests on Princes in the Tower 5th March 2007 The sons of King Edward IV were imprisoned in the Tower of London by their uncle Richard III (above) in 1483. The imprisoned boys were King Edward V (who was king for just 2 months) and Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York. How and when...
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    Shaun the Sheep, star of Wallace and Gromit, to get his own show

    Shaun the Sheep returns with his own show By Neil Midgley, TV and Radio Editor 02/03/2007 Shaun the Sheep, whose brief cameo stole the show in Aardman Animations' A Close Shave, gets his own show on CBBC1 (children's BBC)today — more than 11 years after his first appearance. Nick Park...
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    Al-Qaeda target Prince Harry

    EXCLUSIVE Al-Qaeda target Prince Harry By DUNCAN LARCOMBE SIMON HUGHES and JAMIE PYATT March 05, 2007 Target ... soldier Harry PRINCE Harry and his men will pose as hooded hostages in a training exercise — after hate-filled threats to kidnap or kill him in Iraq. The Royal...
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    Lined up for slaughter: 18 Shi'ite officials, slaughtered by al Qaeda

    Lined up for slaughter: 18 Shi'ite officials, slaughtered by al Qaeda By DAVID GARDNER 4th March 2007 The al Qaeda gunman aims and fires once into the head of each kneeling victim in scenes taken from the online video An al Qaeda executioner pulls his pistol trigger 18 times and a...
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    The Enfield poltergeist: A 30-year silence is broken

    In the 1970s strange occurences happened at a house in the North London suburb of Enfield........ Suburban poltergeist: A 30-year silence is broken By DANNY PENMAN 4th March 2007 Spooked: Janet is thrown across her bedroom by the Enfield poltergeist and her sister looks on terrified...
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    Secret portrait of the Nine Day Queen found

    Secret portrait of the 'nine-day' Queen found By ANDREW LEVY 4th March 2007 The portrait of what experts believe is Lady Jane Grey, the "Nine Day Queen." She was England's shortest-ever serving monarch and became Queen when she was just 16. She was beheaded on Tower Green outside the...
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    Were "I have then lived long enough" Nelson's last words?

    According to legend, Nelson's last words were "Kiss me Hardy". But new evidence shows that his last words may have been something else. Despite being outnumbered by a combined French/Spanish fleet only 449 British were killed compared to 4,400 French and Spanish thanks to Britain's more...
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    Texans fear US sovereignty will disappear down superhighway

    In a similar way to how Europeans - particularly the British - are protesting about the loss of their sovereignty to the EU as it seems to want to become a European "superstate", it looks that Canadians, Americans and Mexicans are going to be fighting against NAFTA for their countries'...
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    Queen includes Kentucky Derby in her state visit to the US

    Queen includes Kentucky Derby in US state visit Christopher Morgan Queen Elizabeth II will have a state banquet in Washington DC with George Bush to celebrate the "enduring bonds" of an extraordinary friendship Churchill Downs horse racing track, Kentucky. The Queen is a big fan...
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    Channel 4 accuses Prince Charles of being too political

    Charles fights Channel 4 on his 'meddling' Andrew Alderson, Chief Reporter, Sunday Telegraph 04/03/2007 The Prince of Wales is locked in a bitter dispute with television bosses over a programme that questions his fitness to be king. Prince Charles was accused of being 'too political'...
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    New skyscrapers may ruin many world heritage sites

    UN: Ministers are ruining our world heritage By Chris Hastings, Arts and Media Editor, Sunday Telegraph 04/03/2007 SKYSCRAPERS MAY RUIN BEAUTY SPOTS The scene was described by Monet as "dazzling" and "beautiful" and inspired the Impressionist master to paint some of his best loved works...
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    Invaders!

    Invaders! THE INVADERS - Ø ANGLES AND SAXONS (AD 410) Ø VIKINGS (AD 793) The areas where the Anglo-Saxons (Angles, Saxons and Jutes) came from and where they settled. They flooded in after the Romans left. These Germanic peoples are the ancestors of the modern day English people. The...
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    Stromboli blows its top to light up Sicilian sky

    Stromboli blows its top to light up Sicilian sky 03/03/2007 The location of Stromboli in southern Italy. Italy has around 29 volcanoes. Lava pours down Stromboli's slopes and into the Mediterranean Sea near Sicily Lava flows light the night sky as the Italian volcanic island of...
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    RAF pilot accused of using Iraq as a health farm

    RAF pilot accused of using Iraq as health farm By Thomas Harding 03/03/2007 At a time of strict Ministry of Defence control over the military it is unusual to find senior officers venting their anger in a public forum. Flight Lieutenant Caz Leavey next to a giant Hercules aircraft...