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Most Curious Stories from Times Online
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The Most Curious Stories as found by Times Online
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David Cameron releases list of the fattest cats in the Civil Service
David Cameron set out to control public-sector pay yesterday by publishing the names of 172 civil servants earning £150,000 or more.
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Night-time temperatures could rise above 25C because of climate change
The number of sweltering nights when the temperature in cities stays above 20C (68F) and the elderly become vulnerable to heat exhaustion will increase fivefold because of climate change, a Met Office study has found.
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Ken Dodd single comes third in chart of bestselling Sixties singles
One does not need to be a student of modern cultural history — or an obsessive collector of pop trivia — to know that the biggest-selling UK chart stars of the 1960s were the Beatles.
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Alopecia sufferer Gail Porter reveals new head of hair
A former model and television presenter who suffers from alopecia has revealed a substantial regrowth of hair. After five years of baldness, Gail Porter, 39, who refused to wear wigs, appeared on television yesterday with a near-full head of hair. She said that it was growing back in patches, but now covered 75 per cent of her scalp.
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Online lonely-hearts scam is costing Britons millions of pounds
Single Britons looking for love on online dating sites and in lonely hearts columns are being duped out of hundreds of millions of pounds every year by fraudsters from West Africa.
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Vets want ban as influx of terrapins and turtles threatens native habitats
Terrapins and turtles that have been dumped in canals, ponds and lakes are threatening native habitats and bringing disease to Britain, according to veterinary experts.
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Wonders of the deep may hold answers to life’s big questions
When Otis Barton and William Beebe became the first men to descend hundreds of metres below the surface of the ocean in the 1930s, they came back with wondrous tales of clouds of luminous shrimps and vast, tentacled fish.
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Boris Johnson teaches Latin to encourage volunteering
The teacher was using a Ben Hur video clip to illustrate the basics of Roman chariot racing when she turned to the most unruly member of her class and asked a question.
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Curiouser and curiouser, the tale of Alice and the lost chapter
Their words and pictures are immortalised in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, from the Red Queen’s croquet lawn to the Jabberwock lair.
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A superhighway to heaven?
It is 8am on a bright Monday morning and traffic is snarling its way north up the A24. Across the road workers are flooding into Colliers Wood Tube station to be sardined on to hot trains rumbling up the dreaded Northern Line. If ever a day was designated for cycling to work, this is it.
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U2 pulls out of Glastonbury festival after Bono's spinal surgery
For 40 years Glastonbury’s bands have battled through mud, Hell’s Angels and gatecrashers to perform. But yesterday U2 were forced to drop out of the festival’s headline slot after Bono suffered a slipped disc.
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EU sets toughest targets to fight global warming
Europe will introduce a surprise new plan today to combat global warming, committing Britain and the rest of the EU to the most ambitious targets in the world. The plan proposes a massive increase in the target for cutting greenhouse gas emissions in this decade.
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Baby boom for the over-forties but overall birth rate is down
The number of children born to mothers in their forties has almost trebled in the past two decades and continues to rise, latest figures show.
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The Times and The Sunday Times launch new-look, pay-to-view websites
The Times and The Sunday Times revealed their new-look websites yesterday, which from next month will be available only to those willing to pay for them, igniting the debate over how quality journalism will be funded in the future.
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Britain facing humiliating decline in foreign languages, says peer
Britain is sliding towards a “humiliating decline” in its contribution to world affairs because of dwindling foreign language teaching, an independent peer has told The Times.
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