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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…
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Done a runner Mami Konneh Lahun, a 24-year-old athlete from Sierra Leone, went missing after finishing as the 20th-placed woman…
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Flat pack Some facts about Glasgow’s Red Road Flats, built in 1968, which are to be demolished as part of…
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Escapology This week marked the 70th anniversary of the Great Escape, when 76 Allied servicemen tunnelled out of Stalag Luft…
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Plane vanished Some other planes, besides Flight MH370, which have disappeared without trace: — A Boeing 727 cargo plane that…
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Years of war Imaginative souls have tried to compared the situation in Ukraine with that which preceded the first world…
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The best places to open a brothel The Commons all-party group on prostitution has called for a Scandinavian-style law where…
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Palace coups The people of Ukraine enjoyed a peek inside President Yanukovych’s palace, complete with petting zoo and collection of…
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A kamikaze pilot at 80 The Japanese city of Minami-Kyushu was attacked for wanting to add the letters of 1,036…
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Our first winter Hopes will not be high for a big haul of British medals in Sochi, but we have…
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The political life of Walter Mitty Nigel Farage attacked the ‘Walter Mittys’ in his own party. A few of the…
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One for the road Road safety campaigners were angered by the opening of the first pub at a motorway service…
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Fat chances The National Obesity Forum said that Britain is reaching a ‘doomsday scenario’ where half the population is obese.…
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The test of a wave Waves measuring 27ft from peak to trough were seen off Land’s End as the stormy…
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Centuries of conflict 2014 marks the 100th anniversary of the war which was supposed to end all wars. Has the…
