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The Duke of York launches iDEA Digital Enterprise Award and says 'failure is good for children’

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1st April 2014
The iDEA pilot scheme hopes to support 1,000 budding entrepreneurs by investing £150,000 into their ideas for business plans. The Digital Enterprise Award will enable young business men and women to build digital prototypes to test the viability of their business plan. The 20 most promising ideas that are submitted to the iDEA scheme will receive a £5,000 grant. These participants will also…
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Features

Preview of final episode of 'The Plantagenets'

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30th March 2014
The Plantagenets, Professor Robert Bartlett reveals the events that led to the downfall of England’s longest ruling dynasty in the fifteenth century. The Death of Kings sees Professor Bartlett discuss the bloodiest decades of the Plantagenet’s history. Bartlett takes viewers through how family rivalries became so brutal that close relatives turned upon one another and usurped the crowns of…
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British Royals

Questions arise as to the validity of Richard III remains

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28th March 2014
It was heralded as “one of the biggest archaeological finds in history,” according to The Leicester Mercury. The remains of Richard III that was discovered in a Greyfriars car park in February 2013 is now in question. Professor Michael Hicks the head of history at the University of Winchester and Professor Martin Biddle director of the Winchester Research Unit and an archaeologist have…
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Features

Dame Quentin Bryce retires as Governor-General of Australia

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26th March 2014
Dame Quentin left Government House with a full police escort bound for the Australian War Memorial. She arrived at the AWM with her husband, Michael, and both were greeted by Dr Brendan Nelson, Director of the AWM. She went on to lay a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier in a mark of respect in her role as Commander-in-chief of the Australian Defence Forces. The retiring Governor-General…
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