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Despite his stage name Mickey Rooney, the veteran movie actor and entertainer who died this week aged 93, was not of Irish American lineage. He

Oxford, not London, has been named as the UK’s least affordable city. The average property in Oxford costs £340,864, more than 11 times local salaries,

Albert Gifford, 15, last week exacted an apology from supermarket giant, Tesco, for its alleged “misuse” of English grammar when it claimed that’s its orange

Between 70 and 90 per cent of Jewish people in Hungary, the Netherlands, Greece, Latvia and Poland perished in the Holocaust. In Estonia, Belgium, Norway

There is one betting shop for every 2,458 of Glasgow’s 595,000 residents. According to recently-published figures, of £158.18 million gambled each year in the city,

In 2002 there were 7,740 people in Britain over 100. In 2012 there were 13,350. In both the UK and Germany there are 21 centenarians