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The sound of silence: Angus Martin and the Mull of Kintyre MY CONTRIBUTION to the festive spirit this year will be to abstain from thought
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Revealing a climate scientist who believed in a new ice age, and why, despite the fact that he went on to become one of the
THE NEXT President of the United States is 78, and has already been shot at once while under secret service protection. He happened to turn