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BBC News 31 Mar 2025
People studying on De Montfort University's fashion communication and styling course teamed up with Age UK for a styling event using clothes donated to the charity ... "All of these clothes have a history, the bric-a-brac as well and the books.
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For whom the bell tolls: hunt for missing piece of Shrewsbury’s industrial history

The Observer 31 Mar 2025
For almost 200 years, the bell tolled to mark the start and end of the working day at one of the UK’s most remarkable industrial sites – but it vanished when the buildings became derelict in the late 1980s or early 90s ... Sign up to Headlines UK.
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The jobs in high demand... because nobody wants to do them: Huge shortage of teachers, ...

The Daily Mail 31 Mar 2025
Britain's disappearing armed forces have shrunk by almost 200,000 troops since the the Cold War, in a staggering decline of the UK's defences ... Cleaners in the UK can expect to earn an average salary of between £17,000-£24,000 depending on experience.
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Geri Horner hints that the Spice Girls will reunite as a 'collective'

Music News 31 Mar 2025
It's more respectful to come as one ... The Spice Girls dominated the pop scene in the late 1990s as they became the best-selling female group in history with nine chart-topping singles in the UK and Geri says the band "want the best for each other" ... .
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UK police raid Quaker meeting, arrest six over Gaza protest plan

The New Arab 30 Mar 2025
The organisation describes itself as a youth-led non-violent civil resistance campaign that calls for the UK to stop arming Israel ... The Quakers in the UK have a long history, dating back to 1643, and have long been associated with pacifism.
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Jack Buckner believes European Athletics Championships will have huge impact

Yahoo Daily News 30 Mar 2025
The UK will play host to the continental showpiece for the first time in the event's history next summer as the continent's best athletes descend on the second city, with Friday having marked 500 days to go.
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Russia Unleashes First Nuclear Sub with Hypersonic Zircon Missiles

Watan 30 Mar 2025
However, major Western military-industrial powers like France, Germany, and the UK have not yet succeeded in producing even a prototype of a hypersonic missile.
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800 objects dating back to 2,000 years unearthed, could reveal more about UK’s history

Interesting Engineering 29 Mar 2025
In one of the largest and most important Iron Age finds in the history of the UK and Europe, archaeologists have recovered an “exceptional” 800 objects from the Melsonby Hoard.
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800 objects dating back to 2,000 years unearthed, can reveal more about UK’s history

Interesting Engineering 29 Mar 2025
In one of the largest and most important Iron Age finds in the history of the UK and Europe, archaeologists have recovered an “exceptional” 800 objects from the Melsonby Hoard.
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Is Britain braced for the Russian threat from the north?

The Spectator 29 Mar 2025
But how should the UK use that uplift in order to keep itself safe? ... The most pressing of these threats to the UK rhymes with history; that of Russia’s Northern Fleet, a familiar foe from the Cold War.
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I have Peckham Spring Water and Mont Chernobyl champagne - are my Only Fools and ...

The Daily Mail 29 Mar 2025
[email protected] ... By 2004, it was voted Britain's best sitcom, and to this day, it remains one of the most beloved shows in UK history ... Two utterly brilliant pieces of television history, tied to one of the greatest British sitcoms of all time.
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March Madness is over for Kentucky basketball, but Cats exceed expectations this season

Courier Journal 29 Mar 2025
But UK also avoided going one and done at the event for the third time in as many seasons ... Alabama proved too much in the quarterfinals, however, handing UK its most lopsided SEC Tournament loss (99-70) in school history.
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The mythical creature from Harry Potter that has northern roots

BBC News 29 Mar 2025
... from UK folklore ... "England particularly has a complex colonial history and the UK's folklore and national narratives need to be handled carefully and responsibly because of this.".
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Books in brief: Tales of a Patchwork Life; Calls May be Recorded for Training and Monitoring Purposes; The Afghans; Holding The Line; I Hope You’re Happy; The Keeper of the Bees

The Irish Times 29 Mar 2025
First published in 1989, it charts the pivotal role that women occupied in the Great Arizona Miners’ Strike of 1983-1984, which would prove a seminal event in the history of industrial conflict.
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The TRUTH behind the 'pettiest neighbours ever': How family's clash with elderly couple next door ...

The Daily Mail 29 Mar 2025
It's one of the most bizarre warring neighbours arguments in UK history, which still regularly goes viral on social media. the case of the fir tree that got cut in half ... This was the launching point for the action that made the case famous ... He said ... .
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