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Letters and leaflets currently being distributed by Britain First effectively endorse Nigel Farage’s party
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Supporters viewed him as a towering figure in post-colonial Asia, a leader who turned the former British colony into one of the richest places on the planet almost by sheer force of will alone. 
Lee was admitted to Singapore General Hospital on Feb. 5 for severe pneumonia and was later put on life support
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Costa Rica achieves energy milestone by using 100 per cent renewable energy for 75 days in a row

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Mr Hammond visited Inmarsat’s headquarters when a minister and said he was “hugely impressed” before taking a role with the communications systems company
Stephen Hammond's £800-an-hour role with Inmarsat began in December
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Asian tiger mosquitoes can transmit tropical diseases such as dengue fever and chikungunya
Conditions are already warm enough for disease-carrying mosquitos to survive
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Officers and paramedics made desperate efforts to save her
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Caroline Flint MP, the shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, says Ed Miliband has been subjected to some ‘pretty horrendous personal attacks’
The shadow Energy Secretary has been one of Labour’s most persuasive voices ever
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The seven children who were killed are to be buried in Israel
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Cadets wheel Richard III’s coffin off the battefield at Bosworth
He never received so much as a horse for his kingdom, but today he got HRH the Duke of Gloucester and a 21-gun salute
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Marine Le Pen, leader of the far-right Front National party, leaves a polling station after voting in her home town of Henin-Beaumont, in the Pas-de-Calais area of northern France
Marine Le Pen's Front National makes sweeping gains but is beaten into third
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Eurotunnel, which runs car-carrying trains between Folkestone and Calais, has also revealed that most car drivers and passengers will not have their documents checked
Eurotunnel revealed that most car drivers and passengers will not have documents checked
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Prosecutor said state should award compensation for destroying man's life

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