Hundreds of geese stolen before Christmas rush
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Hundreds of geese were stolen from a farm in southern England before they were to have been delivered for Christmas dinner tables, police and the owners said.
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A pair of reindeer that were on display at a Christmas attraction in Britain wreaked havoc when they jumped at the opportunity to make a dash for it.
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BELFAST, Northern Ireland -- Police are stepping up the hunt for up to 20 raiders who pulled off one of the world&#39;s biggest bank robberies in Northern Ireland.
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Authorities have stepped up security for the Christmas celebrations, deploying thousands of troops and police outside churches and other public places across the Muslim-majority archipelago.
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Police were on Tuesday night hunting for a gang who stole more than Â£20m in what is thought to be the biggest bank raid in British history.
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Severe blizzards on the east coast of the US affected hundreds of British travellers today as more than 35 flights to and from the UK were cancelled.
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With just hours to go before Christmas, the nation&#39;s retailers hoped a last-minute flurry of holiday shoppers, whether delayed by winter storms or by simple procrastination, would be enough
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Dozens of flights cancelled from Heathrow and other airports, leaving thousands stranded or delayed
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Hundreds of thousands of travellers stranded in most severe snowstorms for half a century
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Hundreds of tons of poultry passed through the Bernard Matthews plant during the bird flu outbreak.
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MILWAUKEE - Wildlife researchers leading a flock of young whooping cranes south for the winter are warning people to stay out of their way after an apparently curious ultralight pilot disturbed the endangered birds.
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Story in full: UP TO 100,000 passengers face being stranded at airports across Britain over the bank-holiday weekend after unions threatened strike action designed to cause maximum disruption.
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NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Dec. 21 -- Even by the hard-bitten standard of the livelihood they chose, it was a cruel time and place to be lost at sea, tossed in the heaving, frigid swells, a few days before Christmas.
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Robbers with their own trucks stole six trailer loads of chocolates worth more than &#36;900,000 from an industrial park in northeast England, police said Monday.
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Travelers can expect full flights and crowded highways during the New Year&#39;s holiday as two airlines continue to recover from a troubled Christmas weekend that left thousands of people stranded or without their bags.
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LONDON - Robbers with their own trucks stole six trailer loads of chocolates worth more than $900,000 from an industrial park in northeast England, police said Monday.    Since the chocolate heist at the Great Bear Distribution Center in Skelmersdale in the early hours of Sunday, five of the trailers have been recovered: four of them empty and the fifth still containing its load of Easter eggs...
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German scientists plan to help endangered geese find a safer passage for their winter migration south from Finland and Sweden by making them believe that a light aircraft, which will lead the way, is their ...