The England team reassure Marcus Rashford after he misses a penalty.
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England has often seen itself as a sporting underdog, it’s time that changed.
An Anglo-Saxon burial mound in Taplow Court, England.
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New analysis of Anglo-Saxon skulls suggests that being an Anglo-Saxon was a matter of language and culture, and not genetics.
A 16-year-old’s academic performance impacts their future outcomes on every level, educational, professional and emotional.
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The data shows that attainment gaps in English education at age 16 cannot be attributed to any single factor.
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Who is up and who is down after a bumper crop of votes.
Nicola Sturgeon thinks she’s found the exit.
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Nicola Sturgeon wants Scotland out, Boris Johnson hopes to hold it all together and Mark Drakeford believes in the best of both worlds.
Only time for one scoop on the campaign trail in Wales.
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From councils to devolved parliaments, a bumper crop of contests is happening on the same day.
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England is voting for metro mayors and councils on May 6 at a crucial time for local decision-making.
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We studied shared values within England and found an even larger gulf between Northerners and Southerners than we did between English and Scots.
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It takes time and money to hold an election safely during the coronavirus pandemic.
Shoppers in Leeds walk by a coronavirus alert signe.
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Counties, local authorities, councils – how you divvy up the map changes the game significantly.
Much of the north has been placed in the strictest tier of coronavirus restrictions.
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The answer could be found in death rates among the elderly.
Andy Burnham has been in a war of words with central government.
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History shows that revenge is a dish often served cold in Westminster.
Andy Burnham is threatening legal action against central government over lockdown measures in Manchester.
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Tensions between regional leaders and central government have reenergised a devolution debate.
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Even Conservative backbenchers are forming alliances to push back against central government thinking on COVID measures.
An illustration of a sugar plantation in Antigua.
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A scholar of slavery in the British Empire describes the first boycott against sugar made with slave labor in the West Indies.
During their 1962 residency at Hamburg’s Star-Club, the Beatles had the opportunity of a lifetime: opening for Little Richard.
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When a 14-year-old Paul McCartney watched Little Richard in the hit film ‘The Girl Can’t Help It,’ he couldn’t have imagined that the two would one day take the stage together.
Who broke up with whom?
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Unbridled ambition and bruised egos created an irreparable fissure.
Ullswater from Gowbarrow Park in the Lake District where the Wordsworth walked often.
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The great walker and poet can give us much to ponder and marvel at on our daily jaunts
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Marriage and domestic relationships existed before the state, and should be returned to the people, not regulated by the government.
Holiday birthdays are lonely.
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December 25 is the least popular day to give birth in the US, Australia and New Zealand, and second only to Boxing Day on Dec. 26 in England, Wales and Ireland.