The only monarch not to be given a state funeral in the last 295 years was Edward VIII, who abdicated London: The Queen’s state funeral will be the UK’s first in more than half a century, with former Prime Minister Winston Churchill being the last head of state to be accorded with this honour in 1965. A state funeral typically …
Nearly 30 years after his death, some of those responsible for infecting my father with HIV and Hepatitis C are finally speaking the truth – and owning up their mistakes. He had contracted HIV and hepatitis C from a contaminated blood product called Factor VIII, which was given to people across the UK in the 1970s and 1980s to treat …
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Brexit has sparked the biggest revolution in Britain since the English Reformation, Nigel Farage said in his final press conference in Brussels before the UK leaves the European Union. “At 11pm on January 31, 2020, we leave the EU and we pass the point of no return,” the Brexit Party leader said in the European Parliament. “What it means for …
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