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Civil protection agency chief says country is ill-prepared for conflict and calls for urgent upgrades to cold war sheltersGermany is drawing up plans to rapidly expand its network of bomb-proof bunkers and shelters, the government’s most senior civilian protection officia...
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Thomas Tuchel had demanded a convincing win and a performance without doubts. The England manager wanted to suffocate Andorra in this World Cup qualifier; to see his team attack cohesively, to unpick the low block of the nation that sits 173rd in the world rankings. So mu...
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Othniel Adoma, 11, from Bracknell, died on Thursday, while five other children who were injured have been discharged from hospitalAn 11-year-old boy has become the second child to die after a minibus overturned on a motorway slip road in Berkshire last month, police have ...
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Pioneering broadcaster recalls incident during discussion with royal about latest documentary, OceanSir David Attenborough almost drowned when testing a scuba-diving helmet for his 1957 dive on the Great Barrier Reef, the broadcasting veteran has revealed in a discussion ...
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The Firs in Nottinghamshire closed suddenly in April, exposing shocking failures that underscore the strains on care provision across the country“If we had known what was really going on, we’d have taken her out of there straight away,” said Greg Gillespie. “It makes you ...
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Lost for over a century, discovery of wartime letter has rekindled interest in unlocking the secret of the world’s first prototype tankAt the height of the second world war, while British...
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The UK government is desperate to show it is preventing small boat crossings, but its PR-heavy approach may cause more problems with voters than it solves ...
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After a long relationship ended painfully, the acclaimed singer-producer swapped the Californian desert for south Wales – and set to work on her most emotionally direct record yet. ‘It’s been discombobulating,’ she saysCate Le Bon has shaved her head. She had been wanting...
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Labour pledged to build 1.5m more houses. It needs to achieve that – but it will be meaningless unless the people who really need them actually get to live in themI have got used to a scene that has been repeated in wildly different places all over the UK. Close to the ce...
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Musk isn’t the first – or last – billionaire to pour big money into US electionsElon Musk said, very loudly and very publicly, what is usually the quiet part of the role of money in US politics.“Without me, Trump would have lost the election, Dems would...