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Archive for January, 2010

Public demand updated cardigan-removal advice

Members of the public and the Conservatives have criticised the BBC and Sky News for not issuing the public with new guidelines for the milder weather.

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Posted: Jan 26th, 2010
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Airports are major holiday destination for Brits in 2010

family_sleeping_in_airportMillions of Brits are planning to spend their holidays at UK airports this summer, say travel agents. ‘People are already booking to spend their holidays at Heathrow and other major UK airports,’ said Tracey Jones of Heathrow Holidays Ltd. ‘People are being realistic and know a UK holiday is best and the airport is as far as you are going to go anyway.’

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Posted: Jan 26th, 2010
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Compulsory retirement abolished for dead

Campaigners for dead people were celebrating today after the Department for Work and Pensions announced that employers will no longer be able to force people to retire simply because they’re dead.

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Posted: Jan 25th, 2010
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Woman doesn’t freeze to death in house

An elderly woman is reported to have survived ten days of continuous sub-zero temperatures in her own home on a rough council estate in Liverpool.

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Posted: Jan 25th, 2010
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Men still pressurising women into dinner after sex

romantic-dinnerEquality between the sexes was meant to sort this all out. Yet even now in the 2010s, many women still complain that men are pushing them into meals as soon as they have had sex together, while men all too often believe that buying a condom entitles them to move on to a restaurant.

‘They’re all the same,’ complained Laura Styles, a 24-year-old receptionist. ‘Twenty minutes of foreplay, a quickie on the sofa and suddenly it’s ‘I know a nice little Italian round the corner, come on, everyone eats on the first night these days…’ Then if I try to make an excuse, they call me an anorexic and leave.’

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Posted: Jan 25th, 2010
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