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Couple of 'holy' snakes found in Markopoulo, taken into the church for safekeeping.
Brexit could see return of Parthenon sculpturesThe time to return the Parthenon Marble to Greece is near, according to Alexis Mantheakis, chairman of the International Parthenon Sculptures Action Committee.Mantheakis has told Kathimerini the fact that the final agreement for Brexit will have to be passed through European Union national parliaments gives Athens added leverage in its bid to repatriate the sculptures, 200 years after they were hacked off the Parthenon temple on the orders of Lord Elgin. They ended up in the British Museum, which insists that they were legally bought from the Ottoman Empire, which ruled the area at the time.“The English will need to receive approval from the Greek Parliament for something they want,” he said.
A Bristol Water engineer has found a small alligator on the shores of Chew Valley lake in Somerset.
Jeremy Clarkson in hospital with pneumonia
Death of retirement: Can the UK afford the state pension?On New Year's Day 1909, more than half a million people aged 70 and more, who had worked all their lives, had passed a means test and were of good character queued up at their Post Offices for an old age pension of five shillings a week (25p) - around £20 in today's money.The pension paid more than a century later is very different. Today nearly 13 million people - men over the age of 65 and women currently over the age of 64 - receive the state pension. A full one is around £160 a week (£8,300 a year) and one in seven pensioners - close on two million people - survive on nothing else.It costs more than £100bn a year but those costs will rise in the coming decades. The Office for National Statistics projects that the cost will double to £200bn by the mid-2030s and and double again to £400bn in the 2050s.The reason is simple, according to Michael Johnson, a research fellow at the think tank the Centre for Policy Studies.
Sir Vince Cable labels Brexit-backing pensioners 'self-declared martyrs' who have 'shafted the young'
QuoteDeath of retirement: Can the UK afford the state pension?On New Year's Day 1909, more than half a million people aged 70 and more, who had worked all their lives, had passed a means test and were of good character queued up at their Post Offices for an old age pension of five shillings a week (25p) - around £20 in today's money.The pension paid more than a century later is very different. Today nearly 13 million people - men over the age of 65 and women currently over the age of 64 - receive the state pension. A full one is around £160 a week (£8,300 a year) and one in seven pensioners - close on two million people - survive on nothing else.It costs more than £100bn a year but those costs will rise in the coming decades. The Office for National Statistics projects that the cost will double to £200bn by the mid-2030s and and double again to £400bn in the 2050s.The reason is simple, according to Michael Johnson, a research fellow at the think tank the Centre for Policy Studies.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-40826562
UEFA charges Polish club over banner honoring Nazi victimsUEFA hit Polish football club Legia Warsaw with a disciplinary charge Friday after its fans displayed a vast banner commemorating Poles killed by the Nazis.Legia fans displayed the banner, which was the width of an entire stand, during Wednesday’s Champions League qualifier against Kazakh team FC Astana.It marked the Warsaw Uprising of 1944, when Polish resistance fighters captured large parts of the capital city but were eventually crushed by occupying German forces.
What you need to know about car tax changes in 2017Car taxation has changed, with a radical revamp which went live on 1 April. A very suitable date some might feel, particularly those who are going to be hit for many hundreds more
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