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Conservation scientists across the country have been put on red alert in response to a Wikipedia entry that claims the ginger gene is in serious decline across the UK. The website’s assertions that gingers have been included on the most recent IUCN Red List of Threatened Species has led to a number of zoos setting up captive breeding programmes to reverse the decline. London Zoo will spearhead efforts after playing a key role in the successful breeding programmes and subsequent reintroduction of orangutans, red pandas and Eskimos.

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Posted: Mar 26th, 2011
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British Gas has today announced plans to expand its energy business into the petrol retail market. ‘We’re going to revolutionise the forecourt with an innovative pricing structure based on our ever-popular electricity and gas billing system’ said a spokesman.
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Posted: Mar 26th, 2011
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The coalition government has pledged to end the ‘postcode lottery’ of postcode allocation by allowing communities to choose their own postcodes. ‘No longer will people be disadvantaged, or their house prices affected, by the state imposing an alpha-numeric suffix that shows where they live,’ said the Prime Minister yesterday. ‘Why should anyone be denied access to a Mayfair address, just because they happen to live in Peckham?’

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Posted: Mar 25th, 2011
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The complaint had been made by Miss Walker’s old school friend James Burns, who had been following her on Facebook for years. ‘According to her profile she was ‘single’ and ‘interested in men’ he grumbled, ‘but when I made a move on her at a school reunion, she told me she was ‘sort of seeing someone’, and even considering becoming a lesbian or celibate.’

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Posted: Mar 25th, 2011
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A war of words broke out on the nation’s TV screens last night when, in an astonishing outburst, the One Show’s Matt Baker was heard to say ‘Good Evening’ to fellow presenter Alex Jones. Hardly able to contain herself, the Welsh beauty struck back with a venomous riposte of ‘Hi Matt, lovely to be with you’, obviously dripping with ironic scorn.

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Posted: Mar 25th, 2011
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