When Rachel Cooke went to meet historian David Starkey, often called the rudest man in Britain, she expected it to be war. But that was before she started laughing at his tales of a first date in the Beaver and #39;s Retreat In the afternoon of 3 June, the Queen will mark her diamond jubilee by sailing the Thames from Hammersmith to the Old Royal Naval College at Greenwich aboard the royal barge, the …

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Ros Dayan survived horrors of Nazi persecution but now says she does not have enough money to buy food or clothes Despite the horrors of a childhood in the shadow of the Holocaust, Ros Dayan survived to build a life she could be proud of in the new Jewish state of Israel. She trained as a nurse, she sang in a choir that toured the world. She learnt Hebrew, though she never lost her central …

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Curators hail discovery of the first crozier excavated in Britain in 50 years and remarkable ring in grave that had escaped robbers Unexpected medieval treasures have been discovered in a grave at one of the UK and #39;s most beautiful abbeys along with the bones of the abbot they belonged to – probably a well-fed, little exercised man in his 40s who suffered from arthritis and type 2 diabetes. The …

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