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Testing, testing When were A levels first sat? They can be traced back to the Oxford Local, an external examination…
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Tracing paper FBI agents raided Donald Trump’s estate in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, in search of papers he is accused of removing…
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An idea past its sell-by date Waitrose has announced the removal of ‘best before’ dates from many food products. –…
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The longest heatwave How did the recent heatwave compare with that of 1976? That year, the temperature peaked at 35.9˚C…
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Hot topic Last week’s Barometer detailed past UK temperature records. Those were broken by this week’s heatwave. On Monday a…
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Hot hot hot The Met Office said temperatures may hit 40˚C on Sunday, which would be the highest ever recorded…
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Blooming huge Botanists discovered the largest species of giant water lily at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, with leaves more…
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Striking differences This summer’s strikes are unlikely to erupt as badly as the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 in the…
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He really is appalled Prince Charles was reported to have described the government’s plan to send asylum-seekers for processing in…
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Curry in favour The BBC apologised after one of its guests for the Jubilee coverage, Len Goodman, revealed that his…
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Long to reign over us The Queen is the world’s current longest-serving monarch, but two in history have had longer…
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A slip of the tongue George W. Bush condemned a political system where one man could wage a ‘brutal and…
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Wagtime Footballers’ wives Rebekah Vardy and Coleen Rooney are locked in a libel trial dubbed ‘Wagatha Christie’. The term WAGs,…
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Biergate Sir Keir Starmer was facing the scandal of ‘beergate’. Biergate is a lane in the Lincolnshire village of Grainthorpe.…
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The right to buy The Prime Minister floated the idea of granting housing association tenants a blanket right to buy.…
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Stone me Boris Johnson threatened to unleash the ‘terrors of the Earth’ on an unidentified Tory MP who claimed that…
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Park the issue Gladstone Park in Brent may be renamed as a result of the former PM’s connections with slavery.…
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Off duty How many non-doms are there in the UK? – In the year ending 2020, 75,700 people filled in…
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Palm substitutes Palm Sunday was so-called because of the palm fronds thrown before Jesus on his entry into Jerusalem. But…
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Common knowledge Tensions in the visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge to Jamaica led some to speculate that…
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Time for a change A bill before the US Senate would abolish daylight saving time. Some countries which have previously…
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Thamesky Prospekt Who first coined the place name ‘Londongrad’? The name was used in a BBC sitcom called Comrade Dad,…
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High commodity Nickel trading was suspended this week after prices rose to over $100,000 per tonne – double its previous…
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The wild one Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said that Vladimir Putin had gone ‘full tonto’. The word tonto is used…
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Blow by blow Did Storm Eunice really set a new record for wind speed in England? A 122 mph gust…
