December 22nd 2007 – Tony Blair, the former British prime minister, became a Roman Catholic yesterday. It is something people thought he might do after leaving office since his wife and children already are.
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Saturday December 22, 2007
Sunday December 16, 2007
December 16th 2007 – The British today handed back military control of Basra to the Iraqis. They took over the province during the war in 2003. It is the last of the four provinces that the British controlled.
The British will still have troops in Iraq to continue their training of Iraqi soldiers.
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Friday December 14, 2007
December 14th 2007 – The “Darling Dodi” letters that Princess Diana wrote in the weeks before her death were made public in court today.
In one letter in which she thanked Dodi Al Fayed for a six-week holiday, she said, “with all the love in the world and as always a million heartfelt thanks for bringing such joy into this particular chick’s life.”
For the past ten weeks the court has been looking into the death of Princess Diana. She and her Darling Dodi died in a car accident in Paris in 1997.
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Monday November 19, 2007
From the Scotsman in 2004:
Back in 1951, during the era of post-war food rationing, a typical woman measured 5ft 3in tall, had a 37in bust, a 27.5in waist, 39in hips and weighed 9st 10lb. Today, a typical British woman would weigh in at 10st 3.5lb, be 5ft 4.5in tall, and carry an extra 1.5in around the bust and hips and 6in around the middle. More.
In metric that comes to:
- 1951: 1.60 m, 62 kg, 94-70-99 cm
- 2004: 1.64 m, 65 kg, 98-85-103 cm
In terms of body-mass index (BMI) that is no change at all: 24.2 in both years, which is almost overweight but not quite.
