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THE TIME THE US JUSTICE SYSTEM TRIED TO RE-IMPRISON A MODEL CITIZEN THEY HAD RELEASED 90 YEARS EARLY. It was just another day for Rene Lima-Marin in his job helping to transform city skylines by installing glass windows into skyscrapers until an unknown caller buzzed his mobile phone. The woman on the line said she... Continue Reading →
Jodee Berry was not a happy bunny when, in return for excelling at her job, she was rewarded with a toy instead of a car. Yet, she had the last laugh as we find out here. How would you feel if your boss told you that you had won a Toyota, then handed you a... Continue Reading →
Why a friendly, sociable local killed 12 people was a mystery to most. Here, his life is scrutinised to expose how it unravelled before its fatal climax A puzzling episode of Cumbrian history that bewilders locals to this very day. After an angry confrontation with some colleagues, a man named Derrick Bird shot dead his... Continue Reading →
The little known story of the two English nobles who fought the last ever private battle on English soil. Throughout the long, often tumultuous history of Great Britain much of it has passed the rural folk of one quiet corner of it. In the year 1470, a traveller might have set out from London and... Continue Reading →
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