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The African influence is evident in Bahia's food and music There are few Brazilian cities as steeped in their African heritage as Salvador, capital of the state of Bahia. This was, after all, the first colonial capital of... [read full story]
A road in Suffolk was being closed last night as engineers investigated reports of a gas leak. The road being shut was the B1119 at Knodishall, near Saxmundham, which was also thought to have partially collapsed. Last night, a...
Flight Lieutenant Ted Nestor - from Stockport, Greater Manchester - was shot down over Germany in 1943, and held at the prisoner of war camp immortalised in the film, The Great Escape. During his time at Stalag Luft III , he...
Here's a very short video I made on Saturday night. It's an old joke, although it is one of mine: I wrote it a decade ago for a comedy show on my university's radio station, Leeds Student Radio. I hesitate (no I don't) to...
Lord Mandelson was accused last night of going behind Gordon Brown's back to try to become the European Union's foreign minister. The First Secretary's longstanding ambition has been to follow in the footsteps of his...
