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Corinne Purtill

Corinne Purtill is a journalist based in London.

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“I’m not leaving until we solve this mystery”: Meet the world’s foremost Loch Ness Monster hunter

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Alan Turing (Wikimedia)

Alan Turing’s family demands the UK pardon its convicted homosexuals

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5 invaluable lessons from government whistle-blowers

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This Irish cottage may really be haunted by violent fairies

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James Foley, in Boston, May 27, 2011. (AP/Steven Senne)

Britain actively searching for James Foley’s killer

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So naked gardening in the British countryside is a thing

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Russian President Vladimir Putin (AP/Ivan Sekretarev)

How worried are Russia’s oligarchs? Enough to pay $236 million for an apartment with no toilet

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The British army doesn’t want you to know what it did in Afghanistan

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Prostitution in Europe: Legalize or criminalize?

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Britain’s other spying scandal

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World’s most dangerous magazine?

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By Jeeves! Britain experiencing a butler boom

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Flying with my toddler is easy

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NBC’s jingoistic joke

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My book was a bad idea

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