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Britain's top restaurants ditch a la carte menus
Customers are interested in being surprised, in an era when most are familiar with a restaurant's fare via Instagram
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Number of anti-Semitic incidents in Britain falls
The overall figure was a 22 percent reduction from the 1,168 anti-Semitic incidents in 2014
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World's biggest wind farm given go-ahead off Britain
Scheduled for completion by 2020, the giant development would span 160 square miles
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Britain says Russia trying to carve out mini-state for Assad in Syria
Hammond says Putin is worsening Syrian civil war by bombing opponents of Islamic State
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Putin is fanning Syrian civil war, Britain's Hammond says
Russia's Defense Ministry claims to have conducted 468 air strikes last week and hit more than 1,300 'terrorists'
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UK mother gets six years for joining IS group in Syria
Tareena Shakil, 26, was found guilty by a court in Birmingham of IS membership and encouraging terrorism
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Britain grants first licence for genetic modification of embryos
Dr Kathy Niakan says she is planning to modify embryos using a technique known as CRISPR-Cas90
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Muslim population in UK tops 3 million for the first time
Based on recent trends some areas in UK will become Muslim majority areas within a decade
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Marshall Islands sue Pakistan, India and Britain over nuclear weapons
Island will seek in March to persuade the UN's highest court to take up a lawsuit against the three countries
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Oxford keeps statue of colonialist Rhodes, angering some students
'Rhodes Must Fall in Oxford' campaign has sparked a heated debate about how Britain remembers its imperialist past
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UK schools to be downgraded for allowing 'inappropriate' wearing of veil
Chief inspector of schools says the veil is possibly stopping teachers and students from communicating effectively
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'Jihadi Jack' slams media for demonising young Britons who convert to Islam
Jack Letts' mother says he is in Syria for humanitarian purposes to help kids in refugee camps
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Vicars should grow beards to reach out to Muslim community: Bishop of London
Rt Rev Richard Chartres says move will help the Christian community build strong links with Muslims
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MPs debate banning 'fool' Trump from Britain after Muslim comments
Prime Minister David Cameron has called the outspoken tycoon's remarks 'divisive, stupid and wrong' but opposes a ban
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Millions of British households to get pro-EU leaflets
London and Brussels say they are optimistic about the possibility of a deal with Britain at the EU summit in February
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Muslim women must learn English or be deported: British PM
Poor English skills can leave people "more susceptible" to messages of groups like Islamic State, says David Cameron
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Will take Donald Trump to a London mosque: Jeremy Corbyn
Britain's Labour Party leader says Trump 'has some weird and off the wall views'
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600 British militants stopped from entering Syria: Hammond
'The number of Britons stopped in Turkey has gone up in the past eight months' Philip Hammond
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British imam banned from flying to New York over Facebook followers
Masroor says authorities said they had a problem with someone who followed his Facebook page
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British parents set to be offered lessons on child-rearing
Parents receive support immediately after the birth, but the British prime minister said that needed to be extended
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Qaddafi warned Blair of rise of radical Islam, Euro invasion, recordings reveal
British foreign affairs committee releases transcripts of two of Qaddafi's phone calls to Blair on February 25, 2011
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Black pudding hailed as a superfood in Britain
Pudding is made out of pig's blood, pork fat and oatmeal
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Cameron delays trip to Saudi Arabia: report
Saudi Arabia's execution of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr has angered Shias across the Middle East
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MPs to debate petition seeking ban on Trump, no vote planned
The British government responds to all petitions that gain more than 10,000 signatures
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Shakespeare, Battle of Hastings on 2016 British coins
The centenary of World War I and Beatrix Potter will also be commemorated on special coins
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Britain congratulates Iraq on Ramadi recapture
'This is the latest in a series of significant losses for Daesh' Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond
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Britain says deploying military personnel to Afghan Helmand province
The announcement has been made following reports that Sangin was on the verge of falling to Taliban forces
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Emotions run high as UK's last deep coal mine closes
The shutdown of the mine in Yorkshire in northern England closes a 200-year chapter of Britain's industrial history
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Rights groups criticise Britain over arms sales to Saudis
Human rights groups criticised Britain for weapon transfers to KSA, claiming that trade regulations would be violated
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Trump's anti-Muslim remarks 'divisive, stupid and wrong': British PM
'He would unite us all against him' David Cameron
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Britain's top court rejects Trump's bid to stop wind farm near Scottish golf course
The decision, by five senior judges, was unanimous
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Paris militant group had links to Britain - Wall Street Journal
British police are investigating claims a member of the gang that attacked Paris made phone calls to Birmingham
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Kenya jails British terror suspect for forgery
Grant pleaded guilty to charges of being in the country illegally and lying about his nationality
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UK poll shows shift in favour of 'Brexit'
Fifty-two per cent of 2,000 people polled by ORB International last week said they thought Britain should leave
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Majority of Britons want to leave the EU after Paris attacks: poll
The ORB survey of 2,000 people showed 52 per cent of British voters wanted to leave while 48 per cent wanted to stay
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British police still shun guns despite Paris attacks
Armed police in Britain are usually only deployed outside sensitive government buildings
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Britain says Islamic State militants plotting deadly cyber attacks
David Cameron said on Monday that the size of Britain's intelligence agency staff would be increased by 15 percent
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Britain commits 275 million pounds to help Turkey handle refugees
Britain's pledge forms part of a 3 billion euro fund planned by the EU
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Britain: 'High probability' IS bomb downed Russian jet
The British foreign minister claims to have received information that suggests a possibility of the plane being bombed
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British airliners on standby for stranded tourists in Egypt
Some flights resumed on Friday to bring home tourists stuck in the resort, where about 20,000 Britons were on holiday
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Britons perturbed by a troubling shortage of curry chefs
Restrictions on immigration are causing staff shortage with a third of the nation’s 12,500 curry houses facing closing
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British police make fourth arrest in TalkTalk cyber attack
The company says fewer than 21,000 bank account numbers and sort codes have been accessed
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Last British resident in Guantanamo Bay released: ministry
US accused 46-year-old Saudi national Aamer of acting as a recruiting sergeant, financier and fighter for al Qaeda
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Britain's long-awaited Iraq inquiry to be published in June or July 2016
The inquiry aims to shed light on every aspect of Britain's involvement with Iraq from 2001 to 2009
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Britain says to maintain military presence in Afghanistan in 2016
Britain had previously committed to keeping troops in Afghanistan until the end of 2015
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Britain to unveil new counter-extremism measures
Key measures in the plan include allowing parents to have passports removed from 16 and 17-year-olds
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Bishops call on British PM to take more Syria refugees
The Church of England bishops called on Cameron to accept 50,000 refugees, in a letter initially sent in September
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Britain wins legal backing over EU migrant benefit claims
Cameron's government warned European leaders that resistance to clampdown could put Britain's EU membership in doubt
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Feminist restaurant gives migrants a starter in Britain
The restaurant has opened a branch in Sydney and operates exclusively with female asylum seekers as chefs
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‘Fake sheikh’ Mahmood charged by UK courts
The journalist had earlier led an inquiry against Pakistan’s spot fixing trio