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A-level students have expressed shock and disappointment after being denied the chance to excitedly jump up and down live on TV as they receive their results, following a BBC decision to re-broadcast video of last year’s pupils instead.

‘We simply cannot afford to go out and film yet more students jumping up and down,’ said BBC Director of News Helen Boaden, ‘Every year it’s the same. Two of them do really well and say, ‘Oh my God! Oh my God! I can’t believe it,’ while the other one looks a bit disappointed but puts on a brave face for the cameras.’

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Posted: Aug 18th, 2010
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UK Sunday tabloid the News of the World has published shocking details of substance abuse by celebrities hooked on the hair removal cream ‘Veet’.

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Posted: Aug 18th, 2010
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The Ministry of Comedy has officially ruled that no jokes will be allowed that imply any similarities between Tottenham Hotspur and the late Michael Jackson for at least one week, after the first leg of Tottenham’s Champions League qualifier to Young Boys Berne ended in a narrow 3-2 defeat.

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Posted: Aug 18th, 2010
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Despite almost a decade of research and millions of pounds of funding, scientists at Loughborough University’s Department of Nuptial Studies have admitted that they have yet to find a satisfactory answer to a question that has vexed married men for centuries: ‘do you think she looks pretty?’.

‘It’s a conundrum that can be sprung on a husband at any time,’ explained lead scientist Michael Stevens, ‘it could arise while watching the television, at the wedding of a friend or relative, or even while trying to look inconspicuous holding a handbag outside the ladies’ changing room in Monsoon. And the reaction caused by a miscalculation can be explosive. It’s no wonder so many of my colleagues prefer to closet themselves away in the less controversial areas of the Large Hadron Collider and human cloning.’

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Posted: Aug 17th, 2010
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Flowers have been laid and candles lit on the pavement outside Broadcasting House today to mark the solemn moment when, on this day 30 years ago, senior broadcasters first mapped out the schedule for increasing the rate at which they would mark wartime anniversaries.

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Posted: Aug 17th, 2010
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