Britain removed from the start line
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BERNIE ECCLESTONE sounded the death knell for the British Grand Prix when he turned down a last-minute offer to save the nation&#39;s biggest motor race.
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Comment is free: Julian Glover: England and Scotland are becoming foreign lands - thanks chiefly to ignorance on the south.
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Britain enters a new political era on Wednesday when Tony Blair steps down after a decade and Gordon Brown takes over as prime minister knowing he must heal wounds in the country caused by the Iraq war.
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The Beatles started the 'British invasion' by leaving Liverpool and heading to the United States.Comment
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Poland softened its tone on the eve of  a crucial European Union summit due to launch negotiations on a  reform of the bloc&#39;s institutions but Britain angered its  partners by trying to gut foreign policy provisions.
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Heavy snowfall shut down five British airports Thursday and forced the cancellation of some train services in England and Wales.Comment
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LONDON, Sept. 3 -- British troops completed a withdrawal from downtown Basra on Monday, moving to an airport outside the city, their last base in Iraq. Prime Minister Gordon Brown called the move part of a British strategy to shift from combat to an "overwatch" role.
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Restrictions on shooting and selling game dating back to the 1830s will end in England and Wales from August.
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The British Grand Prix has been dropped from the provisional calendar of Formula One races for next year, media reports said Thursday.
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BASRA, Iraq  - British troops quit the Iraqi city of Basra on Monday, leaving the southern oil hub without British forces for the first time since the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003.
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Common sense, Ã¦sthetics, and national character have prevailed; the forces of high modernism and weenie rationalism have received a setback.  The European Union has chosen to no longer pressure people in the British Isles to convert exclusively to the metric system.
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The pint lives on: The European Commission has ditched its attempt to impose the metric system on Ireland and Britain, where a grocer was once convicted of selling bananas by the pound rather than by the kilo.
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The European Commission has ditched its attempt to impose the metric system on Ireland and Britain
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Number of prisoners in England and Wales reduced by 1,500 since emergency measures came in.
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Pints all round as EU crumples before imperial forces The EU will abandon all pretentions to enforce its filthy metric system on Britain, thereby guaranteeing once-and-for-all an Englishman's right to sup ale in pints, buy spuds by the pound, and measure the distance between the greengrocer and the boozer in miles.â¦
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LONDON, Aug 12 (IPS) - The British team arrived in Athens some days back   for the Olympics, like so many others. But only with the British  team has  the arrival been related to travelling to the moon.
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Nearly half of Britain's nuclear power plants are currently out of operation.