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Leased as part of the UK government’s cost-cutting asylum strategy, the vessel became a symbol of wider debates on immigration policy, public spending, and humanitarian responsibility. This report by ...

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These popular theme parks, dance halls and lidos from the golden age of British leisure have been lost for good.

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Lincoln was sailing up the Great Lakes on his way home from Congress in 1848 when he witnessed another steamer that was aground. The scene led Lincoln to develop an invention to float ships off shoals ...