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The great British cuppa comes under threat

It's the brew the nation always turns to in times of crisis - but now even the great British cuppa is coming under threat from the coronavirus.




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The Crown's Josh O'Connor embodies Prince Charles as he films scene at the British Museum

Josh, 29, had his hair slicked back into Prince Charles' signature quiff, at one point sporting a number of hair clips as production crew tended to his outfit.




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How Waitrose bagged Britain's POSHEST shoppers

Waitrose began as a grocer's store in Acton, West London. A Channel 5 documentary Inside Waitrose examines the store's royal connections and how it developed into a shopping phenomenon.




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Prince Charles praises the 'vital role' of the  British Asian community

Prince Charles, 71, has praised the British Asian community for it's contribution to the national coronavirus pandemic as he launched a fundraising appeal for families struggling in South Asia.




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Labour MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle calls for billionaires to be DRIVEN OUT of Britain

Lloyd Russell-Moyle took the extraordinary stance as he said the UK economy should not 'work' for the rich.




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Tony Abbott gives rousing Brexit speech in London, saying Britain does not need EU

In a jingoistic rallying cry at centre-right think tank Policy Exchange, Tony Abbott fawned over Britain's historical achievements as he argued the country did not need the EU.




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British tourist undergoes medical treatment after RIPPING his penis

The unnamed holidaymaker in his 30s (pictured) called emergency services in the notorious red-light city of Pattaya, while yelling incoherently down the phone on Saturday night.




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Exotic spas in Britain: Homegrown retreats are giving Britons the experience of a foreign holiday

The Good Spa Guide reports a steady increase in UK spa-break bookings in general but particularly in breaks offering a taste of Thailand or a massage Moroccan-style.




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Two British prisoners sent home from Thailand do NOT have coronavirus, tests confirm 

Tests have revealed that Mark Rumble (pictured, with boxer Ricky Hatton) and another prisoner at HMP Bullingdon in Oxfordshire do not have coronavirus.




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Opera-singing bodybuilder says he will give himself up over murder of Brit dad in Thailand

Roger Bullman, 54, from Oslo, in Norway, went on the run after killing British IT expert Amitpal Singh Bajaj, 34, in his Phuket hotel room on August 21 following a row over his yodelling on the balcony.




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British boy, three, drowns at Thai waterpark after falling into the flume slide 'landing area'

Bobby Watson (pictured right as a baby) died on Sunday afternoon after falling into a pool at the bottom of a water slide at a water park in Phuket, Thailand, while on a day out with his parents.




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British sailor, 70, rescued after three days adrift in his yacht off Thailand

Michael Turner, 70, set sail from the west coast of Phuket on Friday and intended to sail round the coast to Chalong Pier on the south east of the island.




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British traveller is blocked from boarding a flight to Thailand and left £1,000 out of pocket

Tina Sibley was stopped at the boarding gate in Madrid by Qatar Airways staff, which told her the stamps of Macchu Picchu made her passport invalid. The British Embassy rubbished the claims.




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Welsh couple among 142 Britons on coronavirus plague ship off US coast

Patrick and Kim Maguire were meant to visit Cambodia, Singapore and Thailand but the bug forced them to change their destination. They chose the US as they thought it would be safer.




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Police catch British tourists at 'drug-fuelled' party with Thai girls amid covid-19 lockdown

The British men were among nine foreigners and five Thai women partying in Phuket, Thailand, on Wednesday night. Pictured: Scenes inside the apartment after the police bust yesterday.




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British tourist 'throws his Thai wife off a seventh floor balcony' 

Dave Mitchell, 46, was detained yesterday after his partner, Sukanda, 56, plunged from the seventh floor of the apartment block in Rayong, eastern Thailand.




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British man arrested in Thailand on suspicion of murder after prostitute found dead

Neil Henry Elliott, 46, was arrested in Thailand's sex capital of Pattaya on Thursday morning after allegedly admitting to police that he beat and stabbed a prostitute named 'Onn' to death.




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CCTV shows British man pick up Thai prostitute 'before having drug-fuelled sex then killing her

Police took Neil Henry Elliott, 46, from Northern Ireland on a parade in handcuffs today, to show them the spot where he collected the woman and drove her away on his motorbike.




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MARTIN SAMUEL COLUMN: Lewis Hamilton's 'celebrity green' shtick is so hard to swallow 

MARTIN SAMUEL - CHIEF SPORTS WRITER:You can't be a Formula One driver and lecture on saving the planet. You might think you can. But you can't.




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Sixth title for Lewis Hamilton: Delight as British F1 ace wraps up drivers' championship in Texas

Just a finish of eighth place was needed to secure the four points to land Hamilton out of reach of his last remaining title rival - Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas. The Brit finished in second.




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British Fashion Awards 2019: Nicole Scherzinger reunites with ex Lewis Hamilton

The American singer, 41, put on a racy display in a revealing beaded dress by Julien McDonald as she posed with the Formula 1 champion, 34, at the awards bash in the Royal Albert Hall on Monday.




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Lewis Hamilton backs Barcelona in El Clasico as Brit poses in shirt and admits he's a 'massive fan'

Lewis Hamilton has got behind Barcelona ahead of Sunday's El Clasico, admitting his admiration for the Catalan side and sending 'positive energy' for their crunch La Liga clash.   




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Oscars 2020: Anthony Hopkins among British stars hoping to win

BAZ BAMIGBOYE: British stars were hoping for a divine night of Oscar glory - including a pair of actors who dubbed themselves The Two Welsh Popes. Jonathan Pryce plays Pope Francis.




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MICHAEL GOVE: Britain can use its recovered sovereignty to be a force for good in the world 

MICHAEL GOVE: The financial crisis and other failures of leadership from a past generation of political leaders have turned people against distant and unaccountable power-brokers.




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Mercenaries could be drafted in to extract three British orphans from Syria

Initial plans to use UK special forces to repatriate the children of a dead Islamic State fighter were met with strong resistance from the Cabinet, prompting a Foreign Office rethink.




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Just 14 British jihadis and one bride have been convicted of fighting for ISIS in Syria

Figures from government ministers reveal that around 40 fighters have been convicted of terror acts - but most of those were crimes committed on British soil.




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British ISIS victims' families salute death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

Charlotte Coleman, who daughter, Olivia (pictured), died in the Manchester Arena attack of 2017 has praised US soldiers after they cornered the ISIS leader and he detonated his own suicide vest.




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Just what is the truth about the brutal end of quiet British hero James Le Mesurier? 

GUY ADAMS and NEIL SEARS: Barely three days after the Kremlin publicly accused him of being an MI6 spy, the dashing 48-year-old father of two was found dead in a street in downtown Istanbul.




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British children orphaned after their family travelled to Syria back in the UK with relatives

The judge, who has looked at issues relating to the children's welfare at private hearings in the Family Division of the High Court in London, revealed detail of their return in a ruling published today.




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Syrian refugee, 18, who arrived in Britain eight years ago studies medicine at Cambridge

Nazh Chendi barely spoke a word of English when she arrived in Britain as a refugee from Syria eight years ago. She is now studying medicine at Cambridge University.




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Did British academics help Russia deny Syria war crimes at UN?

The Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media were praised as 'recognised experts and reputable scientists' by a senior Russian official last week. Pictured: White Helmets in Syria, 2017.




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Parsons Green bomber lied about age to stay in Britain, rules judge

Ahmed Hassan claimed he was a 16-year-old orphan when he entered the UK illegally three years ago and applied for asylum. The case raises concerns over how many terrorists are using the loophole.




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Britain's slowest bus revealed as Number 15 from London's Tower Hill

Many commuters could travel faster by donkey than if they take the number 15H bus that runs between Tower Hill and Trafalgar Square via Fleet Street in London.




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Young Brit Harriet Dart feels at home in SW19 so Wimbledon should beware

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Harriet Dart met one of her heroes earlier this year. It proved to be one of those encounters that validated an old phrase. After losing to Maria Sharapova, the experience was priceless.




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Celebrity personal trainer reveals shocking impact sleep deprivation has on her ability to perform

Celebrity personal trainer Kirsty Godso has revealed the shocking impact that sleep deprivation has on her ability to perform. The 30-year-old from Auckland likened sleep deprivation to a hangover.




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DEBORAH ROSS: What if Africans had colonised Britain and we were slaves?

Noughts + Crosses is an adaptation of Malorie Blackman's novel for young adults, so why it's being shown on a Thursday at 9pm rather than in the Doctor Who slot, I cannot say




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British Tesco executive, 50, dies while paddle boarding off of Lanzarote 

Ofer Deshe, 50, was pulled out of the sea by surfers after getting into difficulties off spectacular Famara Beach.




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NHS boss slams selfish panic-buyers and demands they STOP clearing Britain's shelves

Environment Secretary George Eustice told people to 'calm down' and claimed there is 'more than enough food to go around'. But he said that many Britons, including frontline NHS staff, were being deprived.




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Celebrity chef Pete Evans shares a video from conspiracy theorist David Icke

In a post to Facebook, My Kitchen Rules judge Evans shared a screenshot of the livestream and asked his followers to share their opinions.




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Britain's UFO hotspots revealed: Official RAF documents show locations of 626 UK 'sightings'

London tops the list with 54 sightings in a year which have been reported by air traffic control employees, pilots, police officers and journalists. Kent comes in second with 30 sightings.




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Katherine Jenkins sings to an empty Albert Hall as defiant Brits celebrate VE Day

The songbird performed classic anthems including We'll Meet Again and The White Cliffs of Dover for 30 minutes behind closed doors for the first time in the venue's 150-year history.




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Public figures and celebrities around the world react with shock and horror as Notre Dame burns  

The world stood helpless as Notre Dame burned on Monday and hundreds of French fire fighters worked to put out the blaze. While they fought the fire, a host of stars and politicians took to social media.




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Katie Archibald will go head-to-head with British cycling pursuit team-mates Laura Trott and Elinor Barker for Team Scotland

When it comes to race day, Katie Archibald likes to be organised. From what time she awakes, to when she will eat and warm up, no stone is left unturned.




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Laura Trott refuses to go to war with Great Britain team-mates, despite lining up against them for Commonwealth Games

The double Olympic champion won team pursuit gold at London 2012 alongside Dani King and Joanna Rowsell, but all three will be lining up for England in the individual pursuit in Glasgow.




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Laura Trott and Katie Archibald win gold in Guadeloupe, sending Great Britain home happy

Katie Archibald and Laura Trott won golds on Sunday as Great Britain completed the European Elite Track Cycling Championships in Guadeloupe with an eight-medal haul, six of them gold.




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British cycling chief Shane Sutton wants his team 'Rio ready' by January as Laura Trott targets more honours

Shane Sutton wants his British cycling team to be ‘Rio ready’ by January 1, 2015, which makes this weekend’s track cycling World Cup in London perfectly timed.




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Laura Trott 'gutted' with omnium silver at cycling's Track World Championships as Great Britain finish titles without a gold

Laura Trott and Great Britain experienced the unfamiliar feeling of returning from a Track World Championships without a gold medal following the final day of the titles.




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Great Britain's Laura Trott takes dominant omnium victory at Track Cycling World Cup

Laura Trott claimed a dominant victory in the omnium at the opening round of the Track Cycling World Cup in Cali. The double Olympic champion led by 10 points going into Sunday's final events.




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Laura Trott beat the odds to become Britain's greatest female Olympian

When Laura Trott, and her fiancé Jason Kenny, step on the plane back from Rio this week, they'll bring with them a record-breaking five gold medals to their Cheshire home.




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Jason Kenny levels Sir Chris Hoy's six Olympic golds in keirin to be greatest British Olympian

MATT LAWTON IN RIO: Little more than an hour after Trott, re-established herself as Great Britain’s most successful female Olympian, Kenny stood shoulder to shoulder with Sir Chris Hoy.