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<title><![CDATA[A whopping big majority is pointless]]></title>
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Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:37 BST
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<![CDATA[The Crewe part of the Crewe &amp;#38; Nantwich constituency is the larger and more famous&amp;#44; but it is the Nantwich part which has by far the longer and most interesting history&amp;#46; It was an important centre for the production of salt from Roman times&amp;#46; It was thus something of a prized location&amp;#44; but had a troubled history as a consequence&amp;#46; The Normans attacked it on their arrival in England&amp;#44; leaving just one building left standing&amp;#46; A couple of centuries later it was destroyed by bandits from across the Welsh border&amp;#46; In 1583 it endured a Great Fire which raged for 20 days&amp;#44; and had to be rebuilt at the staggering cost of &#163;30&amp;#44;000 in 16th&#45; century money&amp;#46;]]>	
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<title><![CDATA[Every city should have its own Boris]]></title>
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Mon, 05 May 2008 00:00:24 BST
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<![CDATA[It is a Bank Holiday Monday&amp;#46; So how about a quick quiz&amp;#63; What&amp;#44; at the last census&amp;#44; was the third most populous city in the United Kingdom&amp;#63; Manchester&amp;#44; maybe&amp;#44; Liverpool&amp;#44; perhaps&amp;#44; I sense you wondering&amp;#46; No&amp;#44; it is Leeds&amp;#46; How about the fourth largest then&amp;#63; It is Glasgow&amp;#46; The fifth&amp;#44; it must be Manchester or Liverpool surely&amp;#44; but it is Sheffield&amp;#46; And finally the sixth&amp;#46;]]>	
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<title><![CDATA[Small earthquake, not many reds]]></title>
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Sat, 03 May 2008 00:00:00 BST
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<![CDATA[It was not quite the political equivalent of the Great Chile Earthquake of 
1960, which measured 9.5 on the Richter scale, the largest magnitude 
reported in the past 100 years or so. That dubious accolade still belongs to 
John Major and the 1995 local elections. It was, nonetheless, analogous to 
the quake that struck Prince William Sound in Alaska in 1964, which at 9.2 
on the Richter scale is the second&#45;most&#45;intense shaking yet recorded. It was 
far worse than Labour had feared and even the most assertive pundits had 
expected. And that was before the vote in London had been counted.]]>	
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<title><![CDATA[How to stop Labour's self&#45;destruction]]></title>
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Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:00:38 BST
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<![CDATA[The largest mass extinction in the Earth&amp;#39;s history occurred about 251&amp;#46;4 million years ago&amp;#46; It wiped out up to 96 per cent of all marine species and 70 per cent of those on land&amp;#46; There is still an argument as to the exact cause&amp;#58; some say vast volcanic activity was the trigger&amp;#59; others that a series of earthquakes led methane to escape through the ocean floor&amp;#59; another camp contends it was an impact event such as an asteroid strike&amp;#44; while a few insist that a gamma&#45;ray burst from a supernova was the culprit&amp;#46;]]>	
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<title><![CDATA[Hillary as Lincoln? Barack as Lee?]]></title>
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Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:00:31 BST
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<![CDATA[The bloodiest and most significant battle of the American Civil War took place in Pennsylvania&amp;#46; At the outset of that conflict&amp;#44; the forces of the North &#45; greater in number and better armed &#45; were regarded as the overwhelming favourites to win the struggle&amp;#46; Yet they were outsmarted by the charismatic General Robert E&amp;#46; Lee&amp;#44; who proved to be more imaginative in the field&amp;#44; inspiring passionate loyalty in his Confederate soldiers&amp;#46;]]>	
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