A Watford student was one one of many Catholics who spent their bank
holiday weekend at Cheltenham Racecourse enjoying the Greenbelt
Festival 2006.
Maria Nabatanzi and her friend Clare Michalkiewicz, both students...
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The tapes for a new £8m BBC One series of Robin Hood have been stolen. I think it was a disgrunteld Friar Tuck that did it. Seemingly he's been cut from this version.
Maybe they should rename it "Robbing Hood".
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"Hundreds of thousands of revellers were heading wearily back to work today after a weekend of nonstop music and partying. They were spoilt for choice with festivals at Reading, Leeds, the Notting Hill Carnival...
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"The New York Times has blocked British readers from accessing an article published in the US about the alleged London bomb plot for fear of breaching the UK's contempt of court laws. Published in the US...
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"Frankly, nuclear weapons in the hands of the Iranians frightens me. They've already stated their desire to destroy another nation", blasted the brother of my mother, throwing in the odd foul word as he silenced the family gathering. I stopped poking at the plastic...
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"Frankly, nuclear weapons in the hands of the Iranians frightens me. They've already stated their desire to destroy another nation", blasted the brother of my mother, throwing in the odd foul word as he silenced the family gathering. I stopped poking at the plastic...
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"With Glastonbury taking a year off, many festivals have spurned the opportunity to challenge for the title in favour of a cash-in. Hurriedly increased capacities have led many of them to feel over-full, while...
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"Europe's largest street party got under way on Sunday as festivities began in the narrow streets of Notting Hill with an estimated 300,000 visitors coming to enjoy the first day of the annual carnival."
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"More than 12 million adults and one million children will be obese by 2010, the Government has predicted.
Around one third of adults and a fifth of all children will be obese, statistics from the Health...
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"For the Prime Ministers of Britain and Barbados, the past week will go down as the ultimate lifestyle-swap. As Tony Blair lapped up the sun at Cliff Richard's Caribbean holiday villa, his opposite number, the Rt...
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"Britain's horse chestnut trees, providers of conkers for generations of schoolboys, are dying in their thousands in the worst case of tree blight since Dutch elm disease 30 years ago.
The horse chestnuts, which...
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"I'll prove to you that a tree has a soul", I exclaimed tilting my body forward while theatrically casting a hand out to demand the attention of those before me. I found an excited smile to compliment my wide-eyes...
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"Members of the West Country Farmhouse Cheesemakers have claimed that their herds have developed a unique regional accent, influenced by the drawn-out vowels and long "r" of the farmers' Somerset drawl. The...
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" 11.30am Five arrested in 'blockade' of Foreign Office Matthew Tempest, political correspondent Monday August 21, 2006 Guardian Unlimited Five demonstrators were arrested this morning after staging a two-hour "blockade" of the Foreign Office in protest against...
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"If you go down to the woods today.
The witching hour, and, as The Incredible String Band close their main-stage set, in the car park a skiffle band strikes up a rousing version of I Will Survive, watched by a...
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