The Pine Marten has recently been seen in England and Wales again after almost 15 years after they were officially declared extinct in both those two countries. They were almost wiped out after persecution from...
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When the Rural Payment Agency paid the Single Farm Payment in 2005 and 2006 in the UK, they overpaid the amount to 20,000 farmers; but it is only now that farmers are receiving letters asking for the money, in...
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A teacher in Wales, UK is in hot water after it was alleged she spent an entire half day at work browsing facebook and ebay while her students were made to sit silently and do mindless excercises. It's even been allegeded that she sometimes turned her ebay activity into an...
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A new campaign is being launched in Wales today with the aim of ending binge drinking. People are signing a pledge to stop the practice, which is very common in the UK."PEOPLE across Wales are today urged to pledge to stop binge drinking as an unprecedented coalition of...
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The UK government has unveiled new laws for cracking down on men who pay for sex. The new laws will apply specifically to trafficked women, or women who are being controlled and pay money to a pimp."New prostitution laws to be set out today will mean a plea of ignorance is no...
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An e-mail mix-up led a town in Wales to create a road sign that read "I am not in the office at the moment" in Welsh.Officials in the coastal town of Swansea wanted to erect a sign that read "No entry for heavy goods...
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Shaun Jones 14, of Pontypridd, Wales, has collapsed and died after suffering an allergic reaction to an acne treatment. The drug has not been named, but the manufacturers are believed to be Roche, who have issued a statement saying that all drugs carry some risks. ...
The Scout Association in UK issued a new guidelines for the Scouts to be given sexual health advice to prevent unprotected sex last week. And now British government is likely to make sexual education mandatory in primary and secondary schools. British...
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"Cousin of Vijender Singh, Balwinder Beniwal, lived up to expectations as Indian boxers shone in the rings with three gold and one silver in the third Commonwealth Youth Games on Friday at Pune. It was Nanao Singh Thokchom of Army Sports Institute who opened the account...
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"When four young pelicans decided to put on a performance of ’synchronised billing’ it became a hard act to swallow. The youngsters opened their bills together as a welcome downpour swept across the coast of New...
The Mayor of Flint in North Wales claims to have seen a pipe shaped UFO on Septemer 27th of this year. The mayor Terry Renshaw contacted a local news service to see if anyone else saw the "UFO", since contacting the...
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One of the problems for environmentalists is getting kids at an early age to engage with nature. Many city children know very little about nature or plants as was revealed earlier in the year when a survey of British...
The 'Silent Disco' concept is one where participants wear headphones to hear the music that they are dancing to. There are essentially two types of silent disco the first being a clubbing experience where all...
"New Aussie spin bowler Jason Krejza, in line for a Test debut in the first Test against India at Bangalore, has revealed that he was the victim of a drink-spiking incident that resulted in a positive drug test two years back. Krejza, then a New South Wales player, said his...
The Reverend Richard Hart, who became notorious in the UK after 56,000 images of child pornography were discovered on his computer, has today started his prison sentence. On the same day, a charity has used the opportunity to warn that child pornography is currently growing...
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