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What’s special about Rochester What is special about Rochester and Strood? — Rochester has the second oldest cathedral and school…
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Dirty dancing David Cameron was accused of causing racial offence by posing with blacked-up Morris dancers, though it was pointed…
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How to deal with a troll In Scandinavian mythology, trolls were shady creatures who lived below ground and varied in…
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Paisley power Paisley pyjamas were in the news. While associated with the town in Renfrewshire, whose mills produced the patterns from 1805,…
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Pot plants A 65-year-old Devon woman rang a BBC gardening show to enquire about a mystery plant only to be told…
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Draconian sentence Paralympian athlete Oscar Pistorius was cleared of murder but convicted of culpable homicide, the equivalent of manslaughter in English law.…
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Birth of a nation A reminder of how England and Scotland came to be one country: — Proposals had been…
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In poor taste US Ambassador Matthew Barzun attracted the ire of chefs for complaining that he had been served lamb…
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Not in their name The BBC decided to start calling the Islamic terror group Isis by the acronym IS instead.…
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Tough at the top The clocks on Big Ben were cleaned by abseiling window-cleaners. Some other big cleaning/painting jobs: —…
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Ministerial needs Home Office minister Mark Simmonds resigned, complaining he couldn’t afford to live in London on his junior minister’s…
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Off the shelf How do we boycott Putin? Some things we traded with Russia, by value, between March and May…
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Commons inheritance Emily Benn, granddaughter of Tony and niece of Hilary, has won the right to stand for Labour in…
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What Germans do worst Some things Germans aren’t very good at: — Making reliable car engines. According to a survey by Warranty Direct…
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Public benefit Public sector unions held a strike over pay. How well are public-sector workers paid compared with their counterparts…
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All must have prizes Paul Pugh, the £104,000-a-year chief executive of the Passport Office, was nominated for ‘leader of the…
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Green wings It was revealed that Pascal Husting, Greenpeace’s international programme director, commutes 250 miles by air from his home…
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The not-so-great charter David Cameron wants every child to be taught about Magna Carta. Some bits he might want to…
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Old world Brazil has struggled to get ready for the World Cup, even though it hosted it before, in 1950.…
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Game of thrones The Spanish king, Juan Carlos, announced that he is to abdicate in favour of his son, Prince…
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Escape committees An LSE/Institute for Government report estimated the cost of Scottish independence at £2.7 billion, a sum arrived at…
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Parliamentary privilege Some facts and figures about the European Parliament, according to the parliament: — The parliament annually costs €3.10…
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Memory holes The EU wants to introduce a law which would force Google to delete from its searches old information…
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Judges in jail Barrister and part-time judge Constance Briscoe was jailed for 16 months for perverting the course of justice…
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Animal spirit A labrador blown up with her handler while sniffing for bombs in Afghanistan in 2008 became the 64th…
