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Over the Christmas period in 1941, an army donkey was taken off her usual duties and given a special task. Four year-old ...

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A historic Derbyshire stately home is celebrating a century on film as the backdrop for movies going back 100 years.

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Assad, the wife of then-Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. It was titled "A Rose in the Desert," and in the words of Joan ...

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Plumbing new depths of political animosity, rival MPs screamed and shoved in the forecourt of Parliament on Thursday in unprecedented scenes of unruliness, capping three days of acrimonious debate ...