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Citizens from Northumberland to Hampshire are buzzing with excitement as Queen Elizabeth II, 82, formally announced that she is expecting the arrival of another baby, just 532 months after giving birth to Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex. The British monarch and her consort, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, 87, confirmed rumors Tuesday that the queen recently entered her second trimester, and that a...
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Stabroek News (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Britain’s Prince Charles has praised the leadership of President Bharrat Jagdeo in the climate change arena. The Prince, at a meeting of his Rainforest Fund in ...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
If the past is another country, Ed Balls has just confiscated the passports of our schoolchildren Ed Balls has announced that primary school history is to be subsumed into an "area of learning" called "historical, geographical and social understanding". Personally I did prefer the words "history" and "geography", partly because they're shorter. Presumably Balls,...
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Is there more to life than shoes? (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
I was delighted to read yesterday that Prince Charles has stopped talking to plants in order to tell that fool Ed Balls that it's a really, really bloody stupid idea to stop teaching children useful things when they're at school. Traditional subjects such as history and geography are to be sidelined in the biggest shake-up of primary education for 20 years. Ed Balls vowed to press ahead with changing...
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Tabloid Watch (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
There are several articles on the Daily Mail website today that deserve a quick comment. First, there's the Mail's second attempt in a few days to out-do the Daily Sport in publishing 'upskirt' pictures of young women in short skirts/dresses. Generally speaking, there is very little news value in 'singer gets into limo', but a lack of news value has never stopped the Mail website before... The paparazzi...
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Kylie Minogue announces US tour (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
PRINCE Charles secretly confided he believed Australia should split from Britain and become a republic while touring there 32 years ago, a new book claims.
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New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
LONDON - Prince Charles secretly confided he believed Australia should split from Britain and become a republic while touring there 32 years ago, a new book claims.The autobiography claims the heir to the British throne told a...
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Sydney Morning Herald (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Prince Charles secretly confided he believed Australia should split from Britain and become a republic while touring there 32 years ago, a new book claims.
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Baxojayz - Centricity (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
quiescent \kwy-ES-uhnt; kwee-\, adjective: Being in a state of repose; at rest; still; inactive. Quiescent derives from the present participle of Latin quiescere, to rest, from quies, rest. Weiner Cousins When two men have had sex with the same woman/women, they become weiner cousins. This is a bond that can never be broken. We're weiner cousins now, that means we're closer than brothers. Trivia Why...
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The Torch (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Governor General Michaelle Jean (second left) and Britain's [oops] Prince Charles (right) salute after laying wreaths during Remembrance Day ceremonies at the National War Memorial in Ottawa Nov. 11, 2009. Photograph by: Chris Wattie [more pictures at link], Reuters Seventy years ago King George VI dedicated the National War Memorial : Update : From Paul at Celestial Junk , with a great photograph:...
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Paul Wright (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
... and the most influential man in Kent! The most influential man in Kent. Who is he? Last week we attended the Crafts for Christmas show at Detling in Kent to exhibit our unique collection of handmade silver and gold jewellery including the popular silver daisy pendants, earrings and bracelets that have become associated with Paul Wright Jewellery throughout the UK and internationally. Readers of...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Monarch lays wreath at Cenotaph in London as MoD announces death of UK soldier in Afghanistan The Queen today led Britain in the country's remembrance of its war dead at the annual wreath-laying ceremony at the Cenotaph in London. After a two-minute silence in Whitehall at 11am, the monarch led politicians and military and religious figures in laying a wreath at the base of the war memorial. Prince...
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Full Comment (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Gillese Duceppe declared the other day that the continued existence of the monarchy is among the many aspects of Canada that fail to meet his approval. “The monarchy is a system that is depasse and archaic,” the Bloc Quebecois leader said in Montreal. “I call it a genetic lottery. People who say they have blue blood should see their doctor as soon as they can.” Ho ho. Separatist...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
• Launching of NHS meant 'cradle to grave' care • Pensions and house prices also good for 1958ers Free healthcare, free schooling, free love – and now early retirement free from the financial woes that plague the rest of us. Could there be a luckier year to have been born than 1948? As pensions fall off a cliff, the smug 61-year-old is planning the next safari or cruise. Nourished...
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