Starmer and Scholz are ‘on the same page’published at 08:09 British Summer Time 08:09 BST Image source, PA MediaImage caption, Starmer signs a guestbook with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier – he’s meeting Chancellor Scholz later Nils Schmid, the foreign affairs spokesman for Chancellor Scholz’s Social Democratic Party, has been speaking to our colleagues on Radio...
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World War Two: Battle of Britain bunker was disguised as garden
Historic England Archives An aerial shot taken in 1945 by the RAF shows how the bunker was covered by a flowerbed A World War Two bunker integral to the Battle of Britain was disguised as a decorative garden, according to researchers. The bunker was designed to blend in with its surroundings in Uxbridge while concealing...
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The Shadow of Revenge: Putin’s Inevitable Turn Toward Britain
The Shadow of Revenge: Putin’s Inevitable Turn Toward Britain – World News – Thailand News, Travel & Forum – ASEAN NOW ” Jump to content
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Brit travel boost as top airline relaunches long-haul flights to capital city
Air Canada is relaunching flights between London Heathrow and the Canadian capital with a new direct service. The new long-haul flight between the British capital and Ottawa is due to start operating from March 31 next year. There will be four flights per week: on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, with outbound jets taking off...
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Have your say on if Britain should take action against Belarus as war fears rise
Ukraine urged Belarus on Sunday to avoid making any “tragic mistakes” after the country’s government, closely allied with Russia, deployed troops at their shared 1,084-kilometre-long border. Kyiv claimed Alexander Lukashenko‘s government brought tanks, artillery, air defence systems and engineering equipment to the Gomel region near Ukraine‘s northern border. Belarusian special forces and mercenaries who were...
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Everything you need to know about the Paris 2024 Paralympics
After a two-week break, Paris is the centre of the sporting world once again as the Paralympic Games begin in the French capital. The games start with the opening ceremony through the streets of the city at 8pm local time (7pm in the UK) tonight and events begin the following morning. Around 4,400 athletes from...
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Oasis: Mancunian rockers who took on the world before their acrimonious split
Oasis were one of the most successful groups to emerge during the Britpop era of the mid-1990s before their bitter split in 2009, prompted by a backstage brawl at the Rock en Seine festival in Paris. Formed in Manchester in 1991, the rock band was led by lead guitarist Noel Gallagher and his brother, lead...
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Great Britain’s men’s ice hockey team bid for 2026 Winter Olympics
There will be 12 teams in the men’s competition at the 2026 Winter Olympics and, for the first time since Sochi in 2014, NHL players will be allowed to compete for their countries. Eight countries have already booked their places, with hosts Italy joined by the top nations based on the 2023 International Ice Hockey...
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Putin will soon turn his war machine on Britain
In October 2022, in the dead of night, specialist troops and officials from Moscow slipped into St Catherine’s Cathedral in Kherson and exhumed the bones of famed 18th-century Russian commander Grigory Potemkin. He was a favourite of Empress Catherine the Great and played a critical role in the annexation of Crimea in 1783. No one...
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Pakistani judge acquits man of spreading misinformation that sparked riots in UK
A Pakistani judge has acquitted a man who was charged with spreading misinformation that helped spark widespread rioting in the UK earlier this month, officials said on Monday. The decision came less than a week after Farhan Asif was arrested in a raid on his home in Lahore, the capital of eastern Punjab province, and...
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Britain will join one of world’s largest trading blocs within months in major Brexit trade deal
Britain will join one of the world’s largest trading blocs, with more than 500 million people, within months. As of Thursday last week, the UK received the final necessary national ratification formally to join the ‘Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership’ (CPTPP). With the UK, the bloc will contain 590 million customers, 31 per...
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Great Britain’s brilliant para-rowers can inspire on and off the water in Paris | Cath Bishop
Great Britain’s para-rowers are all set to take over from the brilliant performances of the Olympic rowing team in Paris and thrill us with their stories on and off the water. ParaGB has won gold medals at every Paralympic Games since rowing joined the programme at Beijing 2008 and they are ready to continue that...