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    England win Women's Euro 2022

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    England win Women's Euro 2022

    England fans celebrate around the nation as their team is crowned European Champions, the first tournament win for a senior England side since 1966...
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    England win Women's Euro 2022

    87,192 fans packed into Wembley yesterday - a record attendance for a European Championships final in both the women's AND men's game - and millions tuned in to their TVs to watch a senior England side win a major tournament for the first time since 1966, leading to mass celebrations in homes...
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    Red-Card Rooney the New Head Coach of DC United

    So often is the case that fans don't like their team's choice of new manager and then happily, for them, they are proven wrong. Leicester City fans were unhappy at the appointment of Claudio Ranieri as their new manager, thinking he would be crap, but he went on to lead them to the Premier...
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    England win Women's Euro 2022

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    England win Women's Euro 2022

    Women's Euro 2022 Final England 2-1 Germany (aet) Toone 62......... Magull 79 Kelly 110 England's women's team have won their first major tournament after beating eight-time winners Germany 2-1 after extra time to win Euro 2022. It is the first football tournament won by a senior England...
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    Red-Card Rooney the New Head Coach of DC United

    He was crap as Derby County manager. They were in the Championship relegation zone when he took over, took them up to 18th but dropped them down the table again, barely avoiding relegation when they drew 3-3 at home with Sheffield Wednesday on the last day of the season. Maybe he will do...
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    COVID-19 'Pandemic'

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    Even autocrats and terrorists now sound like whiney SJWs

    List all the parts of the article you disagree with.
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    Even autocrats and terrorists now sound like whiney SJWs

    What parts of the article do you disagree with?
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    British PM Choice. . .

    Not too sure about that. Truss is the woman who, as Foreign Secretary, had a go at Russia for ruling Russian territory. In the closed-door meeting, Lavrov (Truss's Russian counterpart) had asked Truss whether the U.K. accepted that two Russian regions — Voronezh and Rostov — belonged to Russia...
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    British PM Choice. . .

    Sunak and Truss face off at first public hustings for Tory members One of them will be PM, but who?!
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    British PM Choice. . .

    I was thinking the same.
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    British PM Choice. . .

    Liz Truss, favourite to be new PM, arriving at leadership hustings in Britain's third-biggest city Leeds today with her mother...
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    Even autocrats and terrorists now sound like whiney SJWs

    Woke: the language of tyrants Even autocrats and terrorists now sound like whiney SJWs. JULIE BURCHILL COLUMNIST 28th July 2022 Spiked It’s annoying when one’s words are parroted by people clearly inferior to oneself. With my talent for turning a phrase, this has happened to me a few times...
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    'Secundinus, the s*itter': 1,700-year-old graffiti is found on Hadrian's Wall

    'Secundinus, the s***ter': 1,700-year-old graffiti is found on Hadrian's Wall featuring a large phallus and an insult aimed at another Roman soldier The graffiti was found at Vindolanda, a Roman fort in Northumberland The stone features a carving of a phallus measuring 15.7 x 6 inches Also...
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    Newly discovered Roman road in south west Wales may have been used to trade Irish gold

    Pembrokeshire: Was unearthed Roman road used to trade Irish gold? By James McCarthy & Tomos Morgan BBC News 7th June 2022 Dr Mark Merrony found the route after following up the work of Edward Lhwyd An ancient Roman route found in Pembrokeshire could be the real "golden road" of the Preseli...
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    Town's 800-year-old fair and "fighting" returns

    Rothwell Rowell Fair starts with Proclamation Monday BBC News 13th June 2022 Playful scuffles broke out, a man addressed a town on horseback and the pubs opened at 06:00 BST to celebrate a traditional fair that is thought to have been taking place since 1204. The Rowell Fair is back in...
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    Mass ancient frog burial baffles experts

    Frog bones found in Cambridgeshire Iron Age ditch baffle experts BBC News 13th June 2022 The bones of about 350 frogs and toads were found in a ditch Experts are baffled after finding about 8,000 ancient frog and toad bones while excavating the route of a new road. The bones, found in a...
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    Saxon pendant with Roman jewel found in Kingsey, Buckinghamshire

    Saxon pendant with Roman jewel found in Kingsey field BBC Beds, Herts & Bucks 19th June 2022 The engraved semi-precious gem is known as an intaglio and shows a figure with a raised whip on a small chariot with four horses A Roman jewel engraved with a chariot and four running horses was found...