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When old age pensions were introduced in 1909, claimants had to be 70 years old. Life expectancy was 50 at the time. With people now

173 years ago this month the first true postage stamps – the Penny Black and the Two-Penny Blue – were issued in Britain in May,

In the period 1900-1949 only eleven horses died in the Grand National. In the last ten years, since “safer” fences were introduced, a further eleven

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As the film, Argo, about the escape of US hostages from the besieged US Embassy in revolutionary Iran contends for an Oscar as Best Picture,

Afficianados of the long-running East Enders on BBC1 will have been discombobulated by the antics of the disreputable character Michael Moon. Part-owner of a boxers’ work-out venue