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Wills and Kate flew home from their Indian Ocean honeymoon yesterday... after being presented with the world’s most erotic fruit.
The couple were given the Coco de Mer coconut during a special ceremony as they ended their luxury 10-day stay on Friday.
They were granted a special licence to bring the world’s rarest fruit home from the Seychelles.
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The sisters who took on the IRA and won
THE men's toilet in Magennis's bar in central Belfast is not a large room. There is a small sink to the right of the door on the way in, a single stall to the rear of the room containing a WC, and a stainless steel trough on the same wall as the sink, with room for two people. There are a couple of adverts on the wall above the trough; below it is the obligatory puddle of urine on the floor. In the chipped brown varnish on the back of the door, the initials PIRA - standing for Provisional Irish Republican Army - have been scratched. |
'Every step has been with divine help'
IT WAS the greatest slaughter of the First World War; an assault so bloody that Britain suffered 60,000 casualties in the first day, including 20,000 dead; an assault intended to turn the course of the war but which eventually ground to a halt six months later with just five miles of ground taken. The first Battle of the Somme left historians split on the legacy of Earl Haig, who, as General Douglas Haig, oversaw the ill-fated campaign. Now, personal letters written to his wife on the eve of the battle offer a fascinating insight into the mind of the most controversial British officer of the 20th century.
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Why hero who lost limbs is not on minister's list of Iraq war injured A soldier awarded the George Cross after he lost an arm and a leg in a bomb blast in Iraq has not been counted as injured by the Ministry of Defence - because he was treated by American medics.
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An air of deep melancholy descends as Dr Devender Mohanty recalls his final conversation with his son. Kunal Mohanty had been in Glasgow sitting his exams to qualify as a captain in the Indian merchant navy, but his father was keen for him to return home as soon as possible to tend to his pregnant wife. "I said, come home soon... I told him I'd get his ticket if he came sooner. He said no, he had already booked a return ticket..." The doctors voice trails off. Less than 24 hours after hanging up the receiver on their long- distance phone conversation, Kunal Mohanty was bleeding to death in a city street, his throat cut by a thug motivated by pure racism. |
As the Queen Mother's coffin emerged into the fading light of a spring afternoon in Windsor, borne by six pallbearers and draped in her own Royal Standard, it was not just the demise of a remarkable woman which the nation mourned, but the passing of another age.
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A FISHERMAN'S girlfriend saw red when she realised all he'd been angling for was a bit on the side. Sharon Hunter caught Richard Young romping half naked with a young woman on the floor of the home they used to share.
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THE true scale of British casualties in Iraq is revealed today after the Ministry of Defence confirmed that more than 2,200 injured British military personnel have been flown home from the Gulf since the start of the campaign. With the security situation in Iraq deteriorating, The Scotsman has learned that British forces are suffering about 50 combat injuries every month, and attacks on troops are taking place daily. (April 2004)
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DAVID Kelly's last e-mail spoke of "many dark actors playing games". The Hutton Inquiry has begun to shed light on the identity of those actors and the games they played. After just four days of evidence, the cast already includes the Prime Minister, the Defence Secretary and one of Britain's most senior intelligence figures. Alastair Campbell would not have written this script. |
Even as they began the search for the source of the smoke, the fire was spreading, working its way up old ventilation shafts and outwards in all directions as it sped through long-forgotten rooms in the heart of the block, heading towards the roof. In the end, it was the fire that found them |
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Exclusive - 3 August 2000 CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown will today end his long bachelor years and wed long -time girlfriend Sarah Macaulay. The man who has made prudence his by-word has finally decided to throw caution to the wind amid amazing secrecy. But he finally came clean last night after the Record discovered the banns posted at his local registrar's office.
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Brown under attack for troop deaths and Iraq exit Gordon Brown has come under fire on both sides of the Atlantic for starving the Armed Forces of funding, leaving them struggling to fight on two fronts, in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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TERRORISTS struck at the heart of London yesterday, detonating a series of bombs in a long-threatened attack which killed dozens of people and injured hundreds more. There was no warning before the four bombs exploded, hitting three packed Underground trains and a double decker bus within the space of an hour that forced Britain to confront the menace of al-Qaeda terror. |
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ANDREY should be dead, and he knows it. Ask Andrey what was meant to happen to him and he will gesture at his legs, making a cutting motion. He mimes a knife slicing open his chest and his heart being pulled out, and then he draws his finger across his throat. |
MOORS murderer Myra Hindley died yesterday, just weeks before a legal challenge in the House of Lords was expected to pave the way for her to walk free from jail after 36 years behind bars. For much of that time in captivity, the woman whose name had become synonymous with evil fought for the right to end her days outwith the walls of a prison. Yesterday, her wish was finally granted, but it was too late for the killer with the blood of at least five children on her hands to enjoy that freedom.
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WHEN Scots salesman Troy Motherwell married his fiancee in the tiny Indian state of Nagaland, he did his best to keep it traditional
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SKIPPING from stone to stone in his silver jacket, Damilola Taylor appeared to be a boy lost in a happy world. With his arms stretched out to aid his balance, he was playing some sort of private game, the rules known only to him. Then, there he was there again, running through a nearby square, and again, this time walking, outside Peckham library. The last time we saw him he was alone, waiting in a lift, apparently smiling.
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THE pictures were genuinely shocking: a British soldier urinating on a hooded Iraqi captive, another picture of a rifle butt smashing into the man's groin, another of a kick aimed at his head. For the Daily Mirror, a paper that had made a virtue of its anti-war stance, they seemed almost too good to be true. Yesterday, it seemed they that they really could be too good to be true.
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A man suspected of gunning down two drinkers in an Edinburgh pub was under police guard in hospital last night after the families of the victims took their violent revenge. |
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THE first Scottish soldier to die in Iraq was killed after his aging vehicle broke down just days into the campaign, The Scotsman can disclose. Lance Corporal Barry Stephen was killed in an ambush as he and his colleagues attempted to rejoin the Black Watch mortar platoon in a heavily defended compound after going for repairs on their broken-down FV432 armoured personnel carrier. |
BLACK Watch troops were sent into battle in Iraq without the equipment they would have needed to survive had Saddam Hussein decided to use chemical or biological weapons against them. |
The Home Office is at the centre of a fresh row over its handling of asylum applications after it emerged that hundreds of people who have fled the slaughter in the Darfur region of Sudan have been told by officials that it is safe to return to their homes.
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