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17 hours ago · Retford cemetery is a Victorian era cemetery, with the site's first burial dating back to 1854 (when it was built). Prior to the cemetery, maps dating back to 1835 confirm that the area was covered by farmland. It is approximately 25 acres (10 ha) in size, situated between Babworth Road and North Road.
17 hours ago · The airport is the primary hub of British Airways and is a base for Virgin Atlantic. It has four passenger terminals (numbered 2 to 5) and a cargo terminal. In 2021 Heathrow served 19.4 million passengers, of which 17 million were international and 2.4 million domestic.
17 hours ago · Guildford(/ˈɡɪlfərd/ ⓘ)[2]is a town in west Surrey, England, around 27 mi (43 km) south-west of central London. As of the 2011 census, the town has a population of about 77,000[1]and is the seat of the wider Borough of Guildford, which had around 145,673 inhabitants in 2022.[3] The name "Guildford" is thought to derive from a crossingof ...
17 hours ago · Website. www.parliament.uk. The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland[g]is the supreme legislative bodyof the United Kingdom, and may also legislate for the Crown Dependenciesand the British Overseas Territories. [4][5]It meets at the Palace of Westminsterin London.
17 hours ago · At the 2001 United Kingdom census, there were 4.2 million Catholics in England and Wales, some 8.3 per cent of the population. One hundred years earlier, in 1901, they represented only 4.8 per cent of the population (approximately 1.8 million people). [180] In 1981, 8.7 per cent of the population of England and Wales were Catholic. [13]
17 hours ago · Dudley (/ ˈdʌdli / DUD-lee, locally [ˈdʊdləi̯]) [ 2 ] is a market town in the West Midlands, England, 6 miles (9.7 km) southeast of Wolverhampton and 8 miles (13 km) northwest of Birmingham. Historically part of Worcestershire, the town is the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley.
17 hours ago · Not including civilian casualties, such as siege of Leningrad. The Continuation War, [ f ] also known as the Second Soviet-Finnish War, was a conflict fought by Finland and Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union during World War II. It began with a Finnish declaration of war on 25 June 1941 and ended on 19 September 1944 with the Moscow Armistice.
