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Today is notable as the day before LDV’s fascinating fringe event on how to make authoritarian MPs pay at the ballot box – do join us tomorrow in Birmingham to find out how.
302 years ago today, Queen Anne was the last British monarch to withhold Royal Assent from a bill of Parliament.
In 1864, Sheffield saw a Great Flood when a dam under construction burst. The ensuing inundation wrecked a number of bridges, destroyed 800 houses and killed 270 people.
People born on March 11th include Laurence Llewellyn Bowen, Harold Wilson and Douglas Adams; and deaths include Alexander Fleming, John Wyndham and Slobodan Milošević.
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Parties battle over high speed rail
Will Labour’s Y or the Conservative Reverse-S win the day? Find out in The Times