Britain Abandons Coastal Defense of Vulnerable Village
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By Thomas Wagner  HAPPISBURGH, England - A 12-bedroom guest house, with beautiful views of the North Sea, a lighthouse and sandy beaches, sounds like prime real estate.  Cliff House is nearly worthless, however.
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One of Britain's biggest warships was forced to retreat back to base Wednesday -- by fears about a fridge.
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The flagship of Britain's Royal Navy was forced to retreat back to base Wednesday -- by fears about a fridge.
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By Elizabeth Moore, Newsday, Melville, N.Y.  Sep. 14--Just when it seemed the Town of Riverhead was giving up on its plan for a regional playground on the former U.S.
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Plans by the European Commission to close some areas round British coasts to cod fishing will be opposed by the UK.
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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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Taliban guerrillas have overrun a town where British troops pulled out after a peace deal with local tribal elders, witnesses said on Friday.
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One of the RAF's biggest air bases in the UK is closed because of an "internal security matter".
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Association of British Insurers warns that cover may not be offered to up to 1m homes built on floodplains
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Afghan authorities have dropped leaflets warning Taliban occupying a remote town to leave or be forced out, as residents fled fearing an offensive by NATO-led troops.
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LA CONCHITA, Calif.  - Rescuers called off search  and recovery efforts on Thursday at the site of a mudslide that  killed 10 people when it hit a seaside California town and  urged residents to leave in case of another collapse.
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Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne said Friday he has scrapped a proposal that critics said would protect fewer rare plants and animals from extinction.
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British soldiers began withdrawing Sunday from their last base in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, paving the way for fresh troop cuts and fueling worries about the security of the country's second-largest city and the surrounding region.
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A controversial landfill site near Lisburn is closed by the Environment and Heritage Service.
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A French town has been forced to stop using a former World War I battlefield as a garbage dump after a fierce campaign by British media and citizens outraged at what they called a "desecration" of the memory of ...
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Britain's seas are in crisis, with key species in serious decline, according to a report by the WWF.
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More than half the residents of an isolated Arctic village were evacuated as storm surges threatened to flood their slender barrier island Thursday, the latest chapter in their losing battle against the sea.