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The only way is up

Stairway to heaven? Blueprint pal Stephen Tennent may find that a world record bid puts him on the stairway to hell. Between 14-16 November 2013

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Double vision

Many etymologists – harmless drudges who are obsessed by words – have long believed that the only word in English with three consecutive double letters

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Top of the GDP Table

The IMF this week said that the UK economy is likely to grow by 1.4 per cent this year; twice the rate of growth it

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Nobel prize winners

With a raft of 2013 Nobel Prize winners in medicine, physics, chemistry, economics and peace due to be announced from Monday 7th October, the achievement

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McHornblower

Admiral Horatio Hornblower, the fictional swashbuckling and quintessentially English naval hero created by CS Forester, was based on one of Lord Nelson’s Scottish admirals, according

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The dangers of Cheerleading

An estimated 3.6 million people in the United States, four per cent of them male, participate in cheerleading. At the college level, the activity accounted

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