Robin Millard
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/ 15 January 2007

In what city is your Tokyo office?

Is Wales closed during the winter? Are the churches in England open at Christmas? From the confused to the frankly bizarre, British tourist centres have dealt with them all. Visit Britain, the national tourism agency, has half-a-million people a year pass through its information centres seeking advice on how to make the most of their trip.

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/ 12 December 2006

Win it all, Ferguson orders Man United

Sir Alex Ferguson ordered his Manchester United players on Monday to win the Champions League, the English Premiership and the FA Cup if they want to be considered as a great side. He told his charges it is time to prove how good they are by turning their promising start to the season into silverware.

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/ 9 November 2006

Chelsea punish Aston Villa with 4-0 victory

Champions Chelsea cruised into the English League Cup quarterfinals with a thumping 4-0 win over sorry Aston Villa at Stamford Bridge in London on Wednesday. The Blues must now fancy their chances of winning back the trophy they lifted for the third time in 2005, Jose Mourinho’s first prize as Blues boss.

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/ 13 August 2006

Liverpool stun Chelsea as season kicks off

Liverpool beat Chelsea 2-1 in the FA Community Shield at the Millennium Stadium on Sunday, putting the champions on notice that they are serious about stealing their English Premiership title. In the English top flight season’s traditional curtain-raiser, which pits the champions against the FA Cup holders, England striker Peter Crouch headed an 80th-minute winner.

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/ 8 August 2006

Britons fight to save real ale

Though warm and frothy ale is an enduring symbol of Britain, there’s a fight on to save the traditional British pint from being flushed away by a fizzy tide of bland, mass-produced Euro-lager. Real ale, made the time-honoured, natural way, is an endangered species that enthusiasts say is being muscled out of British pubs by international brewing giants.

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/ 6 July 2006

London bomber’s message from the grave

A videotaped message from the grave by one of the London suicide bombers was broadcast on British television on Thursday as the country braced for the painful first anniversary of the July 7 attacks. Shehzad Tanweer’s statement came as Britain prepared to remember the victims of the bombings, an atrocity that woke the nation.

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/ 6 July 2006

Britain profiting from sub-Saharan Africa

Britain absorbed far more money from sub-Saharan Africa than it gave in aid and debt relief last year, despite pledges to help the region, the charity Christian Aid said on Wednesday. In the 12 months since an annual Group of Eight summit in Scotland last July, the British economy gained a net profit of more than £11-billion ($20,3-billion) from the region.