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The full list of people given St David Awards and their amazing stories
Wales Online
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March 28, 2025
The winners of the St David Awards have been announced. The winners and nominees were all recognised by the First Minister at a ceremony at the Senedd on Thursday evening (March 27). The St David Awards, which were first awarded in 2014, are the...
Keir Starmer sparks fears of witch hunt against British Troubles veterans
Daily Express
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April 20, 2025
Veterans fear a new witch-hunt of Northern Ireland soldiers after Labour set out plans to repeal legal protections which could see former service personnel subjected to “two tier” justice. The Prime Minister vowed in his election manifesto to...
How Pope Changed The Catholic Church, Why Did He Choose The Name Francis? Explained
News18
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April 21, 2025
Last Updated:April 21, 2025, 15:30 IST Cardinal Bergoglio of Argentina was in his seventies when he became Pope in 2013. He chose the name Francis for his pontificate, to honour the saint of Assisi, a town in Central Italy Pope Francis appears on...
How the 'Chainsaw President' became the poster boy for a new brand of anti-woke politics sweeping the West
Daily Mail
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April 15, 2025
The apartment door opens on a scene that would scare the living daylights out of an unsuspecting visitor. Shelves sag beneath the weight of 100 huge, custom-built chainsaws similar to the ones wielded by the cannibalistic psycho Leatherface in the...
World Briefing: Cuts, Tariffs and Blockades - A World on the Brink
Kyiv Post
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April 14, 2025
UN Agency to Cut 20% of Workforce Amid Funding Shortfall The United Nations’ emergency and disaster response agency will reduce its global workforce by 20% and scale back operations in nine countries, as it confronts a severe funding crisis and...
Managing an outreach eye service… 8000 miles away!
Eye News
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In 1997, Paul Rosen, a relatively newly appointed consultant surgeon to the Oxford Eye Hospital, was approached by Richard Davies, a GP in Stanley, Falkland Islands, to assist in the provision and management of the Falkland Islands eye surgery...
'All fentanyl, all the time': How the deadly drug became Canada's public enemy No. 1
Vulcan Advocate
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Breadcrumb Trail Links News A pillar of organized crime, fentanyl has wreaked havoc across the nation and sparked a trade war with the U.S. And the bad trip could get worse 0728 tt fatal drug - A man smokes fentanyl or carfentanil in Edmonton in...
Chinese executives ‘tried to access key areas of British Steel site’ before debate
The Times
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Liz Saville-Roberts, Plaid Cymru’s leader in Westminster, slammed the government’s decision to safeguard steelmaking in Scunthorpe but not the Port Talbot steelworks in Wales.“Today is a bitter day for the people of Port Talbot, where the blast...
Drug deaths in B.C. are dropping. Here are some of the theories why
The Province
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Breadcrumb Trail Links Health News Crime Local News Experts are looking at changes to the drug supply and drug use for clues to why drug deaths in B.C. are dropping. Moms Stop the Harm members tied purple ribbons with memorial messages around...
Tussac House Care Facility Opens
FITV
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January 20, 2025
The new care facility, Tussac House, has been officially handed over to Falkland Islands Government. Construction was completed at the start of January this year and the building has been passed on to the Health and Social Service Department....
US' reciprocal tariffs may be higher for India & many others than what Trump presented to the world
The Economic Times
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April 3, 2025
More than a dozen countries, including India, set for US reciprocal tariffs may face slightly higher levies than they first expected. A White House annex listing future reciprocal tariff rates differed for at least 14 economies from what was on...
What to Know About the Countries Facing the Highest Trump ‘Reciprocal’ Tariffs
TIME Magazine
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April 3, 2025
President Donald Trump called the punishing tariffs he announced on Wednesday “reciprocal,” claiming that the new levies on imports from pretty much every nation—including some that are longtime allies and others that are literally uninhabited—are...
Millions of us find our entire life's work is lost in the last few years of our lives - this must be Britain's priority - Kevin Foster
GB News
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January 17, 2025
For 37 years my dad worked as a Painter\Labourer in Devonport Dockyard, often working weekends to pay the mortgage and put me through University. Proud to have been one of the Dockyardies who worked long hours to get the fleet ready to sail for...
WILD THINGS: OWL BE THERE
Keys Weekly - Florida
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April 14, 2025
The owl looked straight at me over his left shoulder, then swiveled his head about 350 degrees and looked straight at me over his right shoulder. Which made me laugh louder than I should have. His eyes were a bright yellow. Maybe not a banana...
7 Outlander filming locations you can visit in Tayside, Fife and Stirlingshire
The Courier Evening Telegraph
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January 4, 2025
Locations across Tayside, Fife and Stirlingshire have provided a backdrop for the smash TV series Outlander. The show, about a Second World War nurse who is transported to 1700s Scotland, has been a hit across the globe since it began in 2014....
The test-tube cow, a bit of beaver bother, and the strings of Barbara Hepworth
Country Life
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January 15, 2025
Plus an Arts-and-Crafts delight in the Surrey Hills and the daily quiz. Say hello to Hilda, the climate-change fighting cow The birth of a healthy calf in Scotland via IVF is being hailed as a mighty step forward in the fight against climate...
Roaming Charges: Who Shot the Tariffs?
CounterPunch
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April 11, 2025
Sabertooth tiger skull and Bay Bridge, San Francisco waterfront. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. ‘Patriotism’ is its cult…Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for...
Worst week for US stocks since Covid crash as China hits back on tariffs
BBC
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April 4, 2025
Natalie ShermanBusiness reporters, BBC News ShareSave Stock market turmoil deepened on Friday, as China hit back at tariffs announced by Donald Trump, raising the likelihood of an extended trade war and damage to the global economy. All three...
David Borrett's feature: The mystery of the Pigot-Moodie family uncovered
Andover Advertiser
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But the name Pigot-Moodie was so unusual that identification posed no problem. Here we had a total of 13 slides, some duplicated, of a young man in naval uniform, another in a pin-stripe suit and a bride in a wedding dress. READ MORE: David...
Worst week for US stocks since Covid crash as China hits back on tariffs
BBC
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April 4, 2025
Natalie ShermanBBC News, New York ShareSave Stock market turmoil deepened on Friday, as China hit back at tariffs announced by US President Donald Trump, raising the likelihood of an extended trade war and damage to the global economy. All three...