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Map of the British Empire in 1886
This map is just before the Scramble for Africa where within 15 years, most of the continent had also been divided up between European powers, with the British Empire getting a very large share.
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Save Our Supplements
Every day, millions of Britons take vitamin and mineral supplements, either as part of their long term health and nutrition regimes or to address specific ailments. But proposed EU legislation threatens to weaken over-the-counter supplements by lowering the maximum permitted levels. The Save Our Supplements (SOS) campaign calls on the Government to take urgent action, so consumers can continue to make informed choices for themselves – free of excessive regulatory interference.
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A Teenager Commits Suicide over Police Ransomware
A British young boy committed suicide after falling victim to a ransomware scam – one of the common varieties notifying the user that they were visiting illegal websites and demanding ransom (in this case £100) for the police to drop the prosecution. The boy, Joseph Edwards, was a 17 year old A-grade student, but suffered from autism, which it is believed might have made him more susceptible to believing the scam he fell victim to was actually authentic.
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More than half of Brits would vote to leave the European Union
More than half of voters want to leave the European Union, a surprise new opinion poll shows. Some 51 per cent of people want to sever ties with Brussels, while 49 per cent want to remain in the EU, the Opinium survey for the Observer shows. It comes as Norway warned Britain not to copy its own situation outside the EU, which leaves it unable to influence key economic rules it must abide by to trade with the 28-nation bloc.
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'Disease is no longer a problem' claims deadly bacteria
Following Nigel Farage’s lead, medicine and healthcare have been described as unnecessary by several deadly diseases. By Dean Burnett
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A tour of the British Isles in accents
The person doing the voice is Andrew Jack who is a dialect coach. Visit his website at http://www.andrewjack.com/. Original audio here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01slnp5
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Why are you still here?
In Grimsby, the former fishing capital of England, sandpipers scurry across the tarmac of derelict streets. The sandpiper isn’t a creature of asphalt and paving. It’s a small white-breasted bird usually to be found foraging on British foreshores in groups of twenty or so, scuttling...
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100-year-old U.S. tourist targeted by pick-pocket has money returned
A 100-year-old American tourist who was mugged of £1,400 after he fell over on a trip to the British city where he was born has had his money returned. William White was visiting the UK with his son when the cash was snatched from a bum-bag he was wearing after he toppled over getting off a bus in Gloucester. The crime caused shock in the South West city after the holidaymaker, an aviation millionaire from Arizona, reported the incident to police.
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The last days of Nick Clegg
Is the leader of the Liberal Democrats a dead man walking?
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Anti-Party Party: The Greens
Ben Jackson reviews “Honourable Friends? Parliament and the Fight for Change” by Caroline Lucas.
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Desperate migrants try to swim to Britain from France
The BBC's Paddy O'Connell says that migrants in France are so desperate to get to Britain that they are now trying to swim across the English Channel.
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Viewpoint: Britain must pay reparations to India
At the end of May, the Oxford Union held a debate on the motion "This house believes Britain owes reparations to her former colonies". Speakers included former Conservative MP Sir Richard Ottaway, Indian politician and writer Shashi Tharoor and British historian John Mackenzie. Shashi Tharoor's argument in support of the motion, went viral in India after he tweeted it out from his personal account.
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British teen accused of plot to commit college massacre
A British teenager planned a gun and bomb attack on a college that had kicked him out for bad behavior, a prosecutor said Friday. Liam Lyburd, 19, is on trial for allegedly amassing an arsenal to target Newcastle College in northern England. He was expelled in 2012 for being disruptive in class.
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GRAND JURY SAYS FOR-PROFIT JUVENILE DETENTION FACILITY IS DISGRACE TO FLORIDA
(NATIONAL) -- G4S, described as a "controversial British outsourcing firm behind the disastrous security provision at the London Olympics," by the British newspaper The Guardian has been accused of running a “disgraceful” juvenile detention center in Florida.
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A Terrorism Case in Britain Ends in Acquittal, but No One Can Say Why
Ian Cobain, a reporter with The Guardian, is one of very few people who know why a student arrested by armed British police officers in 2013 was finally acquitted this year of terrorism charges. Problem is, he cannot report what he knows. He was allowed to observe much of the trial, but only under strict conditions intended to keep classified material secret. His notebooks are being held by Britain’s domestic intelligence agency.
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How to access a million stunning, copyright-free antique illustrations from the British Library
The 17th- through 19th-century images have been used on rugs, album covers, gift tags, a mapping project, and an art installation at the Burning Man festival in Nevada, among other things.
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British Library asks for help deciphering a medieval sword
A sword on display at the British Library has an 800-year-old mystery engraved on its blade. Dating back to between 1250 and 1330 AD, the sword was discovered in the east of England, in the River Witham near Lincoln, in the 19th century. The sword is a particularly fine double-edged steel weapon of English design. It was most likely forged in Germany and belonged to a wealthy man or a knight.
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Jonathan Sumption: the brain of Britain
The long read: He terrified opponents as a stellar QC. Now he’s a supreme court judge and revered historian – the establishment personified. So why is Jonathan Sumption not a household name? By Wendell Steavenson.
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Nearly Half of British 18-to-24-Year-Olds Say They’re Not Totally Heterosexual
Back in the 1980s, when people still affixed buttons that weren’t just miniature flags to their lapels, I often wore one with the slogan, “How Dare You Assume I’m Heterosexual.” Forget for a moment the bitchy friend who looked me up and down and declared, “As if for a minute anyone would.” The button was a necessary reminder that, for the most part, LGBTQ people were an invisible minority.
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‘We’ and ‘You’
Owen Bennett-Jones reviews “‘We Love Death as You Love Life’: Britain’s Suburban Terrorists” by Raffaello Pantucci.
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