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Welcome to England’s benefits capital where half of working age people are unemployed and claiming Universal Credit… Grimsby is the once thriving fishing town where hard work fell out of fashion
Inside a brick smokehouse on Grimsby’s once-bustling docks, Patrick Salmon is doing what generation upon generation here took as a…
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TOM LEONARD: Dolly Parton modelled her look on the ‘town tramp’ and never denied repeated affair rumours – but her brilliant business brain meant she could have been a billionaire if she hadn’t given so much to charity
Dolly Parton never let anyone forget that she was born poor. So ‘dirt poor’ that her illiterate sharecropper daddy could…
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Inside America’s whites-only town where new arrivals are vetted to help ‘preserve European identity’ – and leader believes Nazis had ‘redeeming qualities’
Tucked away in the Ozarks of Arkansas is a small community of around 40 residents. Homestead developments like this are…
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The 1950s industrial town where dogs are mysteriously dying, cancer cases are rocketing and residents are too scared to go into their own gardens
‘You think you’re doing the right thing,’ says mother-of-five Sam Hammond from her garden in Thornton-Cleveleys, a small town north…
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Beloved 100-year-old British shoe chain closes another store in historic town | UK | News
Charles Clinkard, founded in 1924, has closed its site on Banbury Road in Oxford’s Summertown. The reason for the closure…
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USA
Mayor who survived assassination attempt shot dead in town hall
A local mayor in central Mexico was shot to death in his city hall after the politician survived an earlier…
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M&S confirms opening date of massive supermarket in seaside town | UK | News
The new food store is scheduled to open in autumn 2027 and will be located in Paignton, between South Devon…
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The ‘whites only’ enclave in the heart of rural Wales: Far-right group inspired by remote town in America’s Ozarks build their own racially segregated community
Activists accused of trying to create an American-style ‘whites-only’ community in rural Wales are facing a local council after building…
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Australia
‘Look at that sh*t burn’: Teen allegedly sets fire to small town high school
A teenager who allegedly broke into a high school, set one of the buildings on fire, gleefully filmed the incident…
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Horror as man dies at sea near UK seaside town as police swarm scene | UK | News
A man has died and another is in hospital after he got into trouble near a beach in North Tyneside,…
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