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Dogs that can retrieve cash from ATMs and empty washing machines help disabled people lead more independent lives, but can they also help change disruptive teenagers' behaviour? A unique TV experiment, Dog House, follows five unruly youngsters as the
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Even though she lived more than 200 years ago, the famous English novelist Jane Austen has been in the news a lot recently. The only known portrait of Jane Austen is to be sold by auction in New York this week, and is expected to fetch between ￡200
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Two Chinese students, who are studying at British Universities, have been awarded prizes for being the best international students in their respective host countries. Psychology student Yusi Liu was crowned Welsh international student of the year whi
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September is traditionally the end of summer and the beginning of autumn in the UK. It is also the month when children go back to school after their long summer holidays, but what do you actually know about British schools? There are two types of sch
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This years Eurovision Song Contest has been won by a singer from Serbia with a powerful ballad about an estranged lover. But it was a disappointing night for the UK, whose team tied with France in joint second-last place. The Eurovision Song Contest
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Most students in the UK leave school or sixth-form college at the age of 18 and go to study for three years in a University, but in recent years many students have chosen to take a one-year break between finishing school and starting university. This
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A young British Formula One racing driver has made history by breaking records for the best ever debut for a newcomer to the F1 drivers championship. Lewis Hamilton is just 22 years old and has competed in only five F1 Grand Prix races, but is the on
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As summertime begins in Britain, people start to feel the urge to go outside to eat. People love to have a picnic whenever the weather is good enough, especially people with children. Its a great way to spend a sunny afternoon. Even in the centre of
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While fans of the fictional adventures of an English boy wizard are counting the days until the publication of the seventh and final Harry Potter book, a theme park inspired by Harry's adventures is to open in the United States. The Wizarding World o
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Father's Day is a fairly new celebration in the British calendar compared with Mother's Day, which has been a very popular and well celebrated festival in the UK for a very long time. The origins of the celebration are American and it was inspired by
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Britain is famous around the world for its rainy weather, but many parts of the country this June are experiencing much more rain than they have ever seen before. Torrential downpours have caused rivers to burst their banks, roads have been closed an
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1st July, 2007 would have been the 46th birthday of Diana, Princess of Wales. 2007 also sees the 10th anniversary of her untimely death in a car accident. Her two sons Prince William and Prince Harry were very keen to mark these two occasions in some
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The fifth Harry Potter film, 'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix', premiered in London on 3rd July under stormy skies, in torrential rain. However, the weather didnt deter the many fans, who gathered in Leicester Square to see the stars of the
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Where can you hear some of best western classical and contemporary music in Britain? The answer is at the annual Proms concerts. Every summer for the past 111 years people have enjoyed the widest possible range of music, performed to the highest stan
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The fastest-selling book ever up to this week was the sixth Harry Potter book The Half-Blood Prince. However, author J. K. Rowling has broken her own record as the seventh and final book in the Harry Potter series is officially the fastest-selling bo
