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A travel company has bucked the trend of lower bookings by introducing ‘proxy holidays’ which remove the need to go away at all.

Grant Sanders, head of Stevenage-based ProxyHolidays, said he had the idea on a recent trip to Paris. ‘I was queuing to see the Mona Lisa in the Louvre, and I couldn’t help noticing how bored everyone looked. When they finally reached the front, they held up their mobiles to get a picture and then moved on to photograph something else without even having a proper look.’

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Posted: Feb 19th, 2010
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Once Britain led the world in scaremongers. Our Fleet Street of panic merchants ruled the waves of anxiety. Nobody could generate an atmosphere of quiet desperation like the Daily Mail.

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Posted: Feb 18th, 2010
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A Shrewsbury man has stunned friends by announcing that he is giving up joking about abstaining from doing things for Lent that he would, in all probability, not be doing anyway, for Lent.

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Posted: Feb 18th, 2010
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‘I have been using a pair of sock puppets for years,’ said Lord Chief Justice, Lord Judge, ‘The jury love it when I bring them out from under the bench to explain legal terms such as ‘habeus corpus’, or the difference between murder and manslaughter. In such cases it really helps to lighten the mood.’

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Posted: Feb 18th, 2010
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There was widespread outrage today at the decision by the editors of the Daily Express to publish a news story about cheese which featured no puns whatsoever.

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Posted: Feb 17th, 2010
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