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The monster that refuses to die
Loch Ness is in the news again after a New Zealand scientist said the sightings of a monster might be a giant eel. What will PETER FROST discover in the murky waters?
The Loch Ness Monster
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Tens of thousands of students left their classrooms and took to the streets against conscription and rising military spending. NICK WRIGHT reports from Berlin
A call from the World Peace Council to the peace movements of the world
IN January of 1934 the Daily Mail, just as much of a reactionary rag as it is today, excelled itself with its most despicable and notorious headline.
“Hurrah for the Blackshirts!” it proclaimed above a paean of praise for Oswald Mosley and his fascist bully-boys.
In the April of that same year it reported on a strange unknown creature in Loch Ness and published a photograph.
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