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Windies World

People in the West Indies, as we in Britain sometimes call it, are often lumped together quite wrongly as one people. “Apart from the accident

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Numbing Numbers

This coming Saturday, 28th June, marks the 100th anniversary of the spark which ignited the catastrophe of the First World War: the assassination of Archduke

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England Expects

The World Cup may be beyond the reach of the current England football team but three records it holds are: Team most consistently knocked out

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Rude Mechanicals?

The average garage mechanic is paid £74.33 per hour in some parts of West London, according to a survey from Warranty Direct, which describes itself

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Murder in Paradise

A famous 20th Century novelist, Somerset Maugham, wrote that the French Riviera was “a sunny place for shady people”. Many of today’s ultra-wealthy inhabit Monte

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RIC-Rolled

Russia’s agreement to sell hundreds of billions of dollars of Russian gas to China represents a real shift on global power says commentator Roger Boyes.

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