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Competitors and spectators flock to the Isles of Scilly for the annual gig racing championship.
A landing craft is brought in to carry gig boats to the Isles of Scilly from Cornwall after a freight boat fails its inspection.
Cement makers try to pre-empt legal measures to cut down on their emissions.
A 1,000-year-old Viking longship may have been discovered buried under a pub car park in Wirral.
Stormont is a great white wedding cake of a building, but the honeymoon is over and what hopes are there for political marriage between the DUP and Sinn Fein.
A Warwickshire village is covered in clay and sand particles from a nearby cement factory.
Soil samples taken during flood defence works at Alney Island reveal levels of lead above government guidelines.
Material from a beach at Dalgety Bay is to be removed to check for radioactivity as part of a £50,000 project.
Air quality will improve in an area of Nottinghamshire with the closure of a cement works kiln, say council chiefs.
Part of a nursery school's playground is fenced off after industrial materials are unearthed from an old landfill site.
British Gas is increasing the cost of gas by 12.4% and electricity by 9.4% from 20 September, it announces.
A report claims that people in Wales work the longest hours in the UK but are the least likely to feel rewarded.
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The Bank of England has raised UK interest rates by a quarter percentage point for the second month in a row. How will you be affected? Send us your reaction.
A Dublin cinema is told it is breaking the law by installing a device to stop mobile phones being used during films.
Read what you had to say about the Linux operating system, which is 10 years old this weekend.
What really did crash to Earth near the New Mexico town of Roswell on the night of 2 July 1947? Your reaction.
Do we really want digital television? Your reaction
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