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Archive for April, 2009

Docklands Light Railway to be converted into Roller Coaster

Thrill seekers will be warned that the rollercoaster can go down, as well as up, but in the case of a crash, only bankers can expect to be bailed out.

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Posted: Apr 30th, 2009
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City bankers complain 50 pc tax rate penalises them for reckless gambling ‘as if it’s a bad thing’

‘Why do we have to pay extra taxes because of our reckless gambling?’ asked a furious a city worker yesterday. It’s almost as if we’re being punished for reckless speculation, he argued.

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Posted: Apr 30th, 2009
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BT ad couple in furious public row after engineer fails to turn up

The BT ad couple, who won the nation’s hearts as it watched their joint journey into home working technology, are to split, it has been announced. The tragic rift opened after the couple took the same morning off work to wait for a BT engineer to arrive.  The divide deepened after they both popped monentarly into the [...]

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Posted: Apr 29th, 2009
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Waddington faces law suit from child forced to play Monopoly banker

A child who was forced by cruel parents to play the part of ‘Banker’ in a family game of Monopoly, is set to win millions of pounds of taxpayer’s money in compensation, under a court ruling.

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Posted: Apr 29th, 2009
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Scare Flu spreads from tabloids to the broadsheets

probably caught it from contact with the tabloidsScientists have confirmed that Scare Flu has now spread from the red top newspapers to the so-called ‘quality press’ which was thought to be more resistant to alarmist scare stories. Doctors have warned that the ongoing outbreak of stories in the media about Scare Flu has now reached pandemic proportions. Fears are growing that the lethal infection may spread throughout the country, potentially causing mass panic on a scale not seen since a Scottish swan was supposed to have died from Bird Flu.

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Posted: Apr 29th, 2009
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