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The New Forest here goes back to William the Conquerer, who created it in 1079 as a royal hunting reserve, mainly for deer. Earlier there were Stone Age-settlers who cut down most of the dense forest; then came the Bronze and Iron ages, when drainage ditches were created in the moorland. The Romans started a pottery industry in the area, but the remaining clues of the Angles, Saxons and Jutes as inhabitants are mostly in place names.
The New Forest has withstood the loss of many trees - especially to build ships for several centuries. Much of the area is waste, and the soil is poor, but it is able to grow trees and provide pasture for herbivores. It is still grazed by deer - and by the cattle, sheep, hogs, horses and mules that belong to the forest residents long defined as the "Comm...
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PARIS -- It's a rivalry for the ages -- France vs. Britain, forever trading barbs over food, lifestyles and politics. Now, as Paris and London battle to host the 2012 Summer Olympics, the feud has heated up anew.
Britain's newspapers heaped scorn on French President Jacques Chirac, rebuking him Tuesday as "a man full of bile" after he reportedly trashed Britain's "bad food" and made a snide remark about mad cow disease.
... not fit to pronounce on food," food critic Egon Ronay was quoted as saying in a front-page story i...
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French President Jacques Chirac, already in a pot of British hot water, was accused yesterday of "a tasteless blunder" by opening a "cheap and thoroughly schoolboyish attack" on British food, calling it the second-worst in the world, behind only Finland's.
He even took a shot at haggis, the most famous Scottish dish, on the eve of the Group of Eight summit at Gleneagles, the Scottish resort.
...Egon Ronay of the Guardian wrote that "a man full of bi...
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PARIS - It's a rivalry for the ages - France vs. Britain, forever trading barbs over food, lifestyles and politics. Now, as Paris and London battle to host the 2012 Summer Olympics, the feud has heated up anew.
Britain's newspapers heaped scorn on French President Jacques Chirac, rebuking him Tuesday as "a man full of bile" after he reportedly trashed Britain's "bad food" and made a snide remark about mad cow disease.
... not fit to pronounce on food," food critic Egon Ronay was quoted as saying in a front-page story i...
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PARIS (AP) - It's a rivalry for the ages - France vs. Britain, forever trading barbs over food, lifestyles and politics. Now, as Paris and London battle to host the 2012 Summer Olympics, the feud has heated up anew.
Britain's newspapers heaped scorn on French President Jacques Chirac, rebuking him Tuesday as "a man full of bile" after he reportedly trashed Britain's "bad food" and made a snide remark about mad cow disease.
... not fit to pronounce on food," food critic Egon Ronay said in a front-page story in The Guardian. ...
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... Entrepreneur magazine, and by the esteemed Egon Ronay critics in 1998. . Virgin Atlantic serves Lo...