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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…
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Facing the music Police in New Zealand played Barry Manilow records to truck drivers in an attempt to persuade them…
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No snow The pistes are covered with artificial snow and the hillsides are bare. Are the Winter Olympics a victim…
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Borderland Few countries can have passed through as many kingdoms and empires as Ukraine — the ‘borderlands’. These are just…
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Prime numbers As of 29 January Boris Johnson will have been Prime Minister for two years and 190 days. Currently…
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Stumped again Were England always so hopeless playing Australia at cricket? Since the first match in 1877 there have been…
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No vax There is nothing new about the anti-vax crowds supporting Novak Djokovic. Organised protest in Britain began with the…
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Waiting for the gong Tony Blair was knighted, 14 years after leaving Downing Street. How long have other ex-PMs had…
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Centenaries 2022 will see the 100th anniversary of: the BBC; Reader’s Digest; Ulysses by James Joyce; insulin treatment for diabetes;…
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Thirsty work Sixty-one pub-goers on a night out in the Tan Hill Inn, 1,500 feet up in the Pennines in…
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Red Peppa? In a rambling speech to the CBI, Boris Johnson praised Peppa Pig. Has she changed political sides? Peppa…
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Shell out Royal Dutch Shell announced that it is to move its HQ to London and become a fully British…
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Horror shows Eight people were killed when fans of rapper Travis Scott rushed the stage at a concert in Houston,…
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Another minute Addressing COP26 in Glasgow, the Prime Minister claimed it was ‘one minute to midnight’ in the fight against…
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Filming fatalities The actor Alec Baldwin accidentally shot a cinematographer on set when mistakenly given a gun loaded with real…
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Drinks at the palace The Queen was reported to have given up regular drinking. What do we know about her…
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Wrong place, wrong time The name of the village of Nelson, north of Cardiff, was described as ‘problematic’ in an…
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Whole-life sentences How many prisoners are serving whole-life sentences? — There are currently 74 prisoners in prison with whole-life tariffs;…
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Scummy idea Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner called Tories ‘scum’ in a speech to activists at her party’s conference. The…
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Seeds of change The Chelsea Flower Show opened in autumn for the first time, delayed thanks to the pandemic. The…
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Floating vote Voters in St Petersburg were presented with three candidates all calling themselves Boris Vishnevsky, with two believed to…
