EVERY year, as bonfire night approaches, Britons are warned about the dangers of fireworks and accidental conflagrations.
Affordability is another factor: Britons spend more time at home drinking cheap supermarket-bought booze than in the pub buying expensive pints.
Unusually for the Tories, there is talk of increasing civil liberties and imprisoning fewer people; and in another SOP to the Liberals, Britons next year will vote on a change to their voting system.
I had not then seen a coracle, such as the ancient Britons made, but I have seen one since, and I can give you no fairer idea of Ben Gunn's boat than by saying it was like the first and the worst coracle ever made by man.
At least two Britons died, said a spokesman for the Investigative Committee.
"Despite the recession, on average, Britons are financially and materially better off than at any other point in history," he told the conference in Birmingham.
Britons took the porkers to their hearts after seeing them charge down a runway and take off to the theme tune from the film "633 Squadron" in an ad for Zurich Financial Services.
Britons think France is the least hospitable country in which to go on holiday, according to a new online survey of 1, 412 Britons.
As for Spain, modestly prosperous Britons and Germans no longer see the Costa del sunshine as their ideal retirement resort.
Britons felt most strongly that there were too many immigrants in their country, and disapproved most categorically of their government's management of inflows.
This reflects the fact that most Britons use their pension pot to buy an annuity.
For Britons, who are wont to label any temperature the wrong side of zero "Siberian", the difference between cold and even colder might seem intangible.
Polish turnip-pickers have indeed made life harder for unskilled Britons, but they have created new jobs too, by allowing turnip farmers to expand and recruit more white-collar (often British) staff.
THE only thing that makes Britons grumble about their trains more than travelling on them is not being able to travel on them.
A similar number of Britons live in France, but mainly for a sunny dotage in the bucolic south.
White discontent is a puzzle, because white Britons are much better off than others.
Americans aren't nearly as fanatical as many Britons are. But soccer is gaining traction in the U.S..
The cut in VAT may hardly be noticed amid the flurry of retailers’ frantic price-slashing—and many of the benefits will be felt abroad as Britons buy more foreign goods.
That means a new reason for Britons to worry about the dilution of their culture, a new burden on parents' pocketbooks, and new businesses selling prom essentials such as tuxedos and corsages.
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