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Tories back in lead with 34% versus 31% for Labour in Ashcroft poll

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The latest Ashcroft National Poll puts the Tories back in the lead with 34%, three percentage points clear of Labour at 31%. UKIP are...
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Eurostar suffers 17 cancellations after person is killed, hit by train on railway track

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After a person was killed, hit by a train between Ashford International and Ebbsfleet International, on the English side of the London-Paris and London-Brussels...
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Nigel Farage says he’d be no good as Prime Minister

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Nigel Farage, leader of the anti-EU UKIP party, says he does not think he would be very good as Prime Minister, and also confessed...
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SpaceX launches two all-electric satellites on Falcon 9 rocket

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SpaceX launched two all-electric satellites on its Falcon 9 rocket, which launched successfully on Saturday. The huge booster lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air...
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Homer Simpson wrote Higgs Boson equation 14 years before scientists did

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Fictional character Homer Simpson was super close to predicting the Higgs boson (Higgs particle), an elementary particle in the Standard Model of particle physics,...
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Svalbard Doomsday Vault receiving thousands of seeds this week

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The first delivery of forest tree species seeds have been accepted by the Svalbard Doomsday Vault, a secure seed bank on the island of...
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Body found at Richard III excavation was an elderly woman

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Within the mysterious lead coffin at the former hastily-dug grave of King Richard III was an elderly woman, probably of high socioeconomic or religious...
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British manufacturing growth will continue into 2015, says industry report

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Manufacturers in the UK have had an upbeat start to 2015, according to a survey published by manufacturers’ organisation EEF and law firm DLA...
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Dogs helped modern humans beat Neanderthals 40000 years ago

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Dogs bred from wolves helped modern humans vanquish local Neanderthals 40,000 years ago from Europe, says Professor Pat Shipman, an anthropologist from Penn State,...
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Brown calling for public sector investment to save the North Sea oil industry

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Gordon Brown will be calling for the public and private sector to save the North Sea oil industry in one of his last major...