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Archive for May, 2010

Queuing drinkers ‘let down’, says Friday night report

The government’s new Drinking Commission said the law should be changed so anyone queuing when last orders is called could still exercise their right to become inebriated and start a fight in a chip shop or over who was in the taxi queue first.

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Posted: May 24th, 2010
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Johnson & Johnson switch to negative marketing

Global health care products giant Johnson & Johnson today confirmed that they will be replacing their ‘No More Tears’ slogan with the message ‘Loreal Kids’ products eat your children’s eyes out’.

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Posted: May 24th, 2010
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Surprise vegetarian dinner guest welcomed by unflustered hostess

In an incident believed to be the first of its kind, an unexpected vegetarian has been welcomed and fed ‘without any hassle’ by a woman in Devon.

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Posted: May 23rd, 2010
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Catholic church to combat ‘sexual predator’ choirboys with burqas

also stops altar boys distracting priests from neighbouring parishes ‘I think we all accept that in hindsight, the customary cassock and surplice probably hasn’t done priests any favours,’

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Posted: May 23rd, 2010
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Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall: my vegetarian shame

now even reconsidering the feelings of leafy foodHugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, celebrated TV chef, smallholder, and real food campaigner admitted last night his ‘entire professional life had been a sham’, after being outed as a rampant meat hating vegetarian by a disgruntled Channel 4 cameraman who had been refused an extra helping of Hugh’s classic ‘home slaughtered steak and kidney pudding’ after a long day’s filming at River Cottage.

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Posted: May 22nd, 2010
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