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Any cavers here: this is a real WOW!

The network of passages and giant caverns stretching for 10km (6 miles) was found near English Bicknor in the Forest of Dean.

The first part of the cave system, Redhouse Lane Swallet, was originally found in the 1990s by Paul Taylor, a caver from Gloucester.

Conservation officer and retired physicist Dr Tim Nichols, who was part of a new generation of explorers which discovered the wider network of caverns, said he did not realise the significance of what they had recently found until they saw it.

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A spoon journey:

A teaspoon, taken from the Queens Hotel in Southsea in 1942, has been returned.

The silver spoon, bearing a monogram which identified it as part of the hotel's cutlery, was found in a drawer in the town of Bundanoon in New South Wales, Australia.

The finder, John White sent it back to the hotel with a letter explaining that his parents had borrowed it during a stay at the hotel during the second world war.

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Ms Godsell had returned home from Totton railway station where Watson had been learning how to settle on a train journey and recalled sitting on the sofa feeling unwell.

"Watson is usually a really chilled dog", she explained, "so I couldn't understand why he wouldn't stop nudging me" which he was trained to do in an emergency.

She said: "I tried to go upstairs and lie down, but he blocked the stairs by standing in front of them. In the end, I gave up and sat back down on the sofa."

Watson went into the garden and started barking persistently, something she said is "completely out of character for him" but "it got my neighbour, Sue's, attention".

"Sue knew that Watson didn't usually bark, so came round to investigate, she told me I didn't look well and, despite me protesting that it was just indigestion, she called an ambulance."  Sue was suffering a heart attack.

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The Northants Board Game Convention, external aims to bring together anyone who loves a board game for fun, games and community.

It is returning to Kettering Arts Centre on Friday and Saturday, after the one-day event last summer attracted hundreds of people, with many having to be turned away at the door.

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Australians made snowmen and enjoyed snowball fights after parts of New South Wales were blanketed with heavy snow over the weekend.

Officials said around 200 vehicles became stranded when areas of the state received the heaviest snowfall in 20 years.

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U never know what might B in those crates !


The elephants were transported in custom-built travel crates, weighing 10 tonnes each, specially designed to keep them comfortable for the duration of their road trip.

This included being fitted with air conditioning and CCTV cameras for drivers to check on them during the four-hour journey.

The two lorries, driven by animal transportation experts, travelled in convoy down the motorway with two of the keepers from Whipsnade Zoo.

Beth and Karishma received a health check from the zoo's vet team to confirm they were fit and healthy for the move.

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A French nuclear plant temporarily shut down on Monday due to a "massive and unpredictable presence of jellyfish" in its filters, its operator said.

The swarm clogged up the cooling system and caused four units at the Gravelines nuclear power plant to automatically switch off, energy group EDF said.

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A gardener has described his delight that his rare plant has flowered after a quarter of a century.

Tony Kennington, 78, who lives in Hartford, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, said he was given the agave americana 25 years ago when it was 45cm (18in) and now it is more than 6m (20ft) tall.

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Going back to Rachel Reeves, a close friend who is a vicar told me I reminded him of her. I didn’t have a clue what she looked like, I looked her up. I quickly changed my hair colour now she’s done the same, drat it! The only consolation is she’s a good few years younger than me (wicked cackle ensues). I want to look like a medieval baebe, not bloody Rachel Reeve!

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That's news I've missed as I don't follow any news about 'them'. 

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Going back to Rachel Reeves, a close friend who is a vicar told me I reminded him of her. I didn’t have a clue what she looked like, I looked her up. I quickly changed my hair colour now she’s done the same, drat it! The only consolation is she’s a good few years younger than me (wicked cackle ensues). I want to look like a medieval baebe, not bloody Rachel Reeve!

So if people start throwing rotten tomatoes at you you know why!

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Ha ha yes I think so! Better take an umbrella out with me to keep the rotten veg from hitting my face. When I visit London I have to watch out ha ha!