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Reuters was persuaded by the UK to start a Middle East news agency in the 60s, funded secretly via the BBC.

Sir John wrote that having two time zones in the UK would '"feed the separatist debate".

The former PM chose to miss the 1996 Atlanta Games to watch cricket at Lord's instead, records suggest.

Eight men were convicted of assaults and sex offences in the 1960s and 1970s.

An 800-year-old paper from the Pope was taken from Scotland to Ireland during Plantation of Ulster.

Foreign Office officials fed information to journalists during the Cold War, newly released files show.

Romance novelist Barbara Cartland sent her alternative medicine, newly released files reveal.

Sir Michael Havers told the story of his post-surgery faux pas to an Irish diplomat in 1987.

Newly released papers said the Pembrokeshire town should have been given its "rightful title".

Margaret Thatcher once praised England's 1990 World Cup stars for not diving - unlike their opponents.