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Archive for June, 2010

Virginia Wade admits ‘I never won Wimbledon in 1977’

In a shocking revelation, Virginia Wade has confessed that she didn’t win Wimbledon in 1977 and that the whole thing was an elaborately staged plot.

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Posted: Jun 25th, 2010
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Public House contractors postpone re-fit until after Germany match

The refit of a pub planned for after England got knocked out of the World Cup has had to be postponed until Monday morning.

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Posted: Jun 24th, 2010
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Government to encourage poor people to catch their own food

Details have emerged from the budget for plans to train ‘dole-scroungers’ in the arts of bushcraft. The scheme, hidden within the reduced budget for the SureStart programme, will see sofa-huggers cast out into the countrified areas of Britain in search of a decent meal.

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Posted: Jun 24th, 2010
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Crucifixion of Jesus ‘may have been a DIY accident’

Joseph taught him everything he knew about popping it in the right hole‘He may have got in a tangle attempting to put up some shelves’

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Posted: Jun 24th, 2010
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The One Show’s sofa leaves BBC for its own peak time programme on ITV

sofa 'planning to waterski the channel' sometime next yearThe BBC was struck a further devastating blow yesterday with the announcement that the sofa from their hit early evening programme ‘The One Show’ had accepted a ‘lucrative offer’ from bitter rivals ITV to front a new peak time programme.

Barry Dyson, the sofa’s agent, stressed that his client was not joining ITV just for the money. ‘Whilst we can’t deny it was an attractive offer, my client feels typecast on the One Show and believes the new programme will enable it to develop artistically.’

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Posted: Jun 23rd, 2010
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