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Weird Norfolk: Fye Bridge where scolds, strumpets and witches were punished

Weird Norfolk: Fye Bridge where scolds, strumpets and witches were punished: Thousands of us pass over it every day without a passing thought for the role it played in Norwich's dark past. Illustration a ducking stool from an 18th century chapbook reproduced in Chap-books of the eighteenth century by John Ashton . : Weird News …

Chilcot scolds Britain’s intelligence community for its role in the Iraq War

Chilcot scolds Britain’s intelligence community for its role in the Iraq War: Did Tony Blair lie about intelligence on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction in the run up to the Iraq war in 2003? This was always one of the key questions for the Chilcot Inquiry – and in the end, its report found the …