Britannia triumphs over Johnny Metric
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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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Michael Vaughan heaps praise on man-of-the-match Matthew Hoggard after England's extraordinary Test win.
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Pete Kendall&#39;s New England accent is as thick as his 6-5, 292-pound frame. So there&#39;s no hiding his roots or his allegiance to Red Sox Nation.
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Andrew Flintoff is the hero as England beat India by 70 runs at The Oval to win the NatWest Challenge.
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Yesterday, as he danced down the pitch to slam the 4 that won the match for England and ran on to embrace his partner Graham Thorpe as if they had just finished the last waltz together, he was writing his own place in the record books.
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The world's biggest steelmaker stacks up impressively against the competition.
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By Anonymous  From Kevin McGrath Sir: Charles Moore hits on an interesting definer of history: Google (The Spectator's Notes, 9 September). If you Google 'English military defeats' and hit 'I'm feeling lucky', you get an English victory at Solway Moss.
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He had done just about everything the right way all year, until he reached Olympic competition Friday night. Alan Webb had run his best-ever time in the mile this year.
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Paul Casey never made winning 1 million pounds look so easy. The Englishman completed a dominating week in the World Match Play Championship in Virginia Water, England, yesterday by winning the last five holes for a 10-and-8 victory over Shaun Micheel, the largest margin in the championship match in the 43-year history of this tournament.
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Chris Hoy claims Great Britain's first gold in the men's one kilometre cycling time trial.
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Manchester United moved back into first place in the English Premier League, beating Newcastle 2-0 Sunday with both goals coming from Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.Comment
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Graham Thorpe last night admitted his delight at scoring a determined century to help England out of another tricky situation and leave South Africa fighting to save a Test they looked likely to win.
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Paul Collingwood became the first Englishman to score a Test double-century in Australia in 70 years as England struck late on the second day to take control of the second Ashes Test.
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Â· City planners approve world's largest building Â· UK architect triumphs despite stiff resistance
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Eleventh-ranked Milton's constant pressure dominated Gloucester yesterday as the Wildcats beat the Fishermen, 8-0, in the first round of the MIAA girls' hockey tournament.
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South Africa's Anton Haig won a three-way playoff with compatriot Richard Sterne and England's Oliver Wilson to win his first European Tour title at the Johnnie Walker Classic on Sunday.
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Graham Thorpe and Andrew Flintoff shared a century partnership and took England into a strong position on the fourth day of the second Test against South Africa at Kingsmead.