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  1. Blackleaf

    Life with no parole for man who murdered woman and her three children

    As for Canada, you may be the world's second biggest country by land area but there are only 41 million of you. There are 70 million of us Brits.
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    Life with no parole for man who murdered woman and her three children

    As an island Great Britain isn't tiny. It's the EIGHTH LARGEST island in the world. We're not Alcatraz.
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    Life with no parole for man who murdered woman and her three children

    Baffin Island is bigger than we are but with around 19 people living on it.
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    Life with no parole for man who murdered woman and her three children

    If you're talking about Great Britain then it's not a tiny island. I think we're the eighth largest island in the world, with lots of tiny ones around it.
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    Life with no parole for man who murdered woman and her three children

    Ali is approximately the 100th person to be given a whole life tariff since its introduction in 1983. It is the replacement for the death penalty. He is now one of around 75 people in the country to be serving life with no possibility of parole.
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    What are you listening to right now?

    Look Mum No Computer - "Eins, Zwei, Drei" (2026) The musician who makes music out of instruments he has created himself out of objects such as Furbies, Raleigh Chopper bicycles and Gameboys has released the song he is to perform representing the United Kingdom at the 70th Eurovision Song...
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    Life with no parole for man who murdered woman and her three children

    We've just seen what's happened to child killer Ian Huntley and he's not been given a whole life tariff. He's in hospital still on a life support machine after he was stabbed in the head by a fellow inmate with a metal spike.
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    Life with no parole for man who murdered woman and her three children

    A man who killed his ex-partner's sister and her three children in a house fire has been sentenced to a whole life tariff. Antonia Gawith had ended an abusive seven-year relationship with Sharaz Ali and was staying with her sister Bryonie when he set fire to the home in Bradford. Ali was found...
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    Iran War. . . USA Up 2-0 in the First Period

    No defence against Iran? There is no way Iran will beat either the United States or Great Britain or France - three of the five great powers (the other two being China and Russia) - in a full scale war. Iran would be destroyed. As for Russia, her status as one of the five great powers is waning...
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    USA looks set to veto British handover of Chagos Islands to Mauritius

    The USA is certainly showing her superpower might at the moment and there's almost nothing anyone else can do about it. She's certainly ruling the roost. Thankfully she's using her mighty power for good reasons and is trying to make the world a better place.
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    What are you listening to right now?

    Londonbeat - "I've Been Thinking About You" (1990) The London dance-pop band achieved a No2 UK hit with this in the year the first commercial internet companies began selling internet usage to commercial customers; Nelson Mandela was released from prison; Margaret Thatcher resigned as British...
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    USA looks set to veto British handover of Chagos Islands to Mauritius

    British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's Labour Government has decided, for some reason, to hand over the Chagos Islands - part of the British Indian Ocean Territory - to Mauritius, a country which has never had a claim over the islands. However, the United States is deeply concerned about it and...
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    Iran War. . . USA Up 2-0 in the First Period

    Yes. The British, Americans, French and others are a lot more technologically advanced than Iran. I'm not an expert but I think we all know that's the case. Britain, America and France are also nuclear powers, so if the need ever arises each country could completely destroy any other...
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    Iran War. . . USA Up 2-0 in the First Period

    The British, Americans and other NATO allies are a lot more technologically advanced than Iran.
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    Iran War. . . USA Up 2-0 in the First Period

    The dramatic moment an RAF F-35B Lightning shoots down an Iranian drone It's the first time an RAF F35 Lightning has fired its weapons in anger The RAF are defending allied Jordanian airspace
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    Iran War. . . USA Up 2-0 in the First Period

    Dragon's sister ship HMS Duncan may also be sent to defend RAF Akrotiri as Britain enters the war
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    Iran War. . . USA Up 2-0 in the First Period

    British destroyer HMS Dragon on her way to Cyprus Starmer orders deployment of Royal Navy destroyer HMS Dragon and helicopters to defend RAF Akrotiri after the RAF base in the British Overseas Territory of Akrotiri and Dhekelia in Cyprus came under attack from Hezbollah drones
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    What are you listening to right now?

    Kate Bush - "Running Up That Hill" (1985/2022) This song is unusual in that it was released twice. The Kentish singer-songwriter, famous for her 1978 megahit "Wuthering Heights" (which she wrote when she was just 18) and her four-octave soprano voice and dancing failed to score a No1 hit...
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    France to increase her nuclear weapons stockpile

    Like their British neighbours, the French have revealed they are to enlarge their nuclear weapons stockpile French President Emmanuel Macron has revealed that he has ordered an increase in the country's stockpile of nuclear weapons This comes after France's next door neighbour Britain also...