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The Times May 18, 2006 Black cygnets born as rare summer prophets By Simon de Bruxelles Nearly all of the swans in Britain are owned by the Monarch - but not the ones at Abbotsbury Swannery. For the first time in 600 years, the world-famous Abbotsbury Swannery in Dorset is home to...

The Times May 18, 2006 Britain blocks EU safety move on speeding and drink-driving By Ben Webster The Government is accused of hypocrisy in trying to thwart measures that it has supported in public British roads are amongst the safest in the world BRITAIN is blocking pan-European...

British sailor Captain James Cook discovered New Zealand and the East Coast of Australia and claimed both for Britain. He was also the first person to circumnavigate the world in both directions. His ship was HMS Endeavour. Wreck of Captain Cook's Endeavour found 17th May 2006 HMS...

Piano found on Britain's highest mountain The Guardian Wednesday May 17, 2006 Paul Nelson and Andrew Hunter with the piano they found on top Ben Nevis. Photograph: John Muir Trust/PA A musical mystery today surrounded Britain's highest mountain after a piano was discovered near its...

The Times May 17, 2006 Barking, but your dog will understand By Nicola Woolcock MOST foreign language courses teach French or Spanish to prospective tourists keen to learn the local lingo before their holiday. But one council has taken translation to a new level by offering lessons...

The Times May 17, 2006 Water company bosses plan to tow icebergs up Thames By Lewis Smith Transporting water by road or via a national grid has been rejected because of the scale of the shortages and the costs TOWING icebergs from the Arctic is among the measures proposed by water...

Daily Mail. 16th May 2006. Littlejohn. What makes the Labour party think that the English would cheerfully submit themselves to rule by either of these old-school Scottish socialists, one of whom is an ex-Communist who thought that Britain would have been better off being ruled by the Soviet...

BBC News 'wrong Guy' is revealed Guy Goma faced questions about the Apple vs Apple court case The true identity of a man who was mistakenly interviewed on BBC News 24 has been revealed. Guy Goma, a graduate from the Congo, appeared on the news channel in place of an IT expert after a...

River passengers stranded in WWII bomb alert Press Association Tuesday May 16, 2006 Almost 150 passengers and 101 crew remain stranded on two ferries on the river Mersey today after a large bomb was seen floating in the water. The 500lb device, thought to date from the second world war...

'Quarter of British soldiers in Iraq suffer mental illness' (However, British soldiers sent to Iraq managed to cope with the psychological stresses of being there far better than the American soldiers.) 16th May 2006 British Army reservists fighting in Iraq are to get better mental...

A serious drought has hit Britain and its due to get worse later this year. The worst hit area is the South East of England, where around one-fifth of Britain's 60 million people live. 2005 was the driest year in Britain since 1973. The Times May 16, 2006 Tough curbs on water use as...

The French aren't only very good at losing battles and wars against the British, but they've also lost the centuries old Culture War between the two countries. So now they've decided to copy the British (we do everything better than the French, these days) by setting up their equivalent of the...

Some people say that Scots is just a dialect of English. Others say that it is a totally different language from English but is the most closely related to it. Don't get confused between Scots and Scots Gaelic, which is a Celtic language spoken mainly in the Highlands and Islands. The...

The British team that created the ill-fated Beagle - which malfunctioned because Mission Control in Germany landed the landing craft in a crater - has now built another Mars rover called ExoMars. It'll be Britain's 2nd attempt to get a buggy on Mars and will be launched on a rocket by ESA...

The Times May 15, 2006 How to eat peas - and then outsell Dan Brown By Jack Malvern, Arts Reporter ONE is the multimillionaire author of The Da Vinci Code, the thriller that has remained at the top of the world’s bestseller lists for more than a year. The other is an unknown writer of...

Harry on bowler hat parade 14th May 2006 Prince Harry and colleagues wearing bowler hat and suit. When not on Army duty, his favoured apparel tends towards the casual if not downright scruffy. But yesterday Prince Harry risked permanent loss of his street cred when he stepped out in smart...

The Venezuelan President met with London Mayor "Red" Ken Livingstone in Camden yesterday. Livingstone has a reputaion, just like Galloway, for being an admirer of the world's tyrannical regimes. The Times May 15, 2006 Hugo Chávez's is watched by Ken Livingstone as he speaks Chávez...

This wasn't a proper game. It was just a bit of fun, in honour of the 40th anniversary of the England VS Germany World Cup Final (which, strangely enough, finished 4-2 just like 1966, but to the Germans this time.) Each team consisted of an assortment of celebrities - musicians, actors...

Ghostly goings on at Cardiff bar Apr 19 2006 Spirits of a different kind are making their presence felt at one of Cardiff's newest bars. Since it opened in February this year, staff at Que Pasa in Trinity Street, have become convinced that at least three ghosts are roaming the building...

Dining in London can be very expensive these days..... This is Local London Happy birthday, have an £85 sarnie Andy Penniceard's £85 sandwich. A bacon sandwich might be the most elaborate food you would expect to see a man eating on a scaffold. But Andy Penniceard was treated to a...