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Remembrance Sunday 2009: Services held across the UK

Across the UK Remembrance Sunday events were held for those who have lost their lives in war.
It’s primarily the Sunday nearest to 11 November, which is the anniversary of the end of the hostilities of the First World War at 11 a.m. in 1918.
Televised by the BBC each year since 1946, here’s a round-up [...]

“Drowning baby” con: Grandfather robbed after heroism

A sickening and bizarre con duped a grandfather into wading for, what he thought was a drowning baby. The scam happened near Portsmouth in Hampshire, UK on Wednesday at 10:30 in the morning. Abandoning his coat to jump into the water the thieves made off with £100 and some tobacco.
The grandfather, John White, 48, was [...]

6-year-old boy attacked by Staffordshire bull terrier, whose handler was just 11-years-old

A six-year-old boy from Portsmouth, UK, was savagely attacked by a Staffordshire bull terrier outside a local supermarket, the incident left the boy needing 90 minutes of surgery to treat facial injuries.
Rhys Greenwood had been shopping with his mother, Carly, and was returning to the family car when the Staffordshire bull terrier leapt towards him, [...]

Twins born to mother on, “The Pill”

The chances for getting pregnant while on the pill are believed to be 99-1.
Carly O’Brien, 22, has beaten odds of 11.3 million to one to birth two sets of twins whilst on, “The Pill.”
Carly from Portsmouth said: ‘It’s amazing that Brandon and Daisy were born in October 2006, when I was on the pill”.
Carly and [...]