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After another fiery debate between the leaders of the three main political parties, all the news networks were last night claiming that it was their reporting which came out on top. ‘There’s no doubt that Nick Robinson won,’ said his BBC colleague Andrew Marr in the spin room afterwards. ‘He was polished, relaxed and on health, immigration and the economy had all the best questions.’

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Posted: Apr 30th, 2010
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Under new government guidelines to counter terrorism, new laws were passed yesterday to make sure that nobody can set foot aboard an international flight unless they are deemed by airport officials to be ‘fearing for their life’.

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Posted: Apr 30th, 2010
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Filming of the latest season of real-time thriller 24 has been plunged into jeopardy today, after Chinese intelligence officials revealed that hard-boiled American hero Jack Bauer had defected to the People’s Republic on the promise of regular toilet breaks.

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Posted: Apr 30th, 2010
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The leader of the British National Party was forced to make a grovelling apology to his party faithful yesterday after an offhand remark extolling the virtues of multi-culturalism in the privacy of his car was inadvertently broadcast to surrounding media. ‘Nick had just been addressing a conference of white van men when he was approached by a local Muslim gentleman, trying to engage Mr Griffin in a debate about the BNP’s stance on Islamic immigration,’ said Griffin’s closest aide, B Manning. ‘The cameras were rolling, so naturally Nick spewed forth about the colonisation of Britain by Islamic extremists.

‘But not realising that his mic was still live, once he was in the assumed privacy of his car, he started waxing lyrical about the need for intelligent debate on immigration, what a great shame it was that a whole faith was tarred by the actions of an extreme minority and how fetching he thought Mrs Griffin would look in a burka.’

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Posted: Apr 29th, 2010
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The Prime Minister issued a dramatic apology tonight after a Sky news crew filmed him through a frosted window engaged in what he later called ‘relieving his bowels’.

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Posted: Apr 29th, 2010
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