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Archive for August, 2011

Public inquiry to review upsurge in public inquiries

The UK government has announced plans for a new public inquiry to examine the recent increase in the number of public inquiries. ‘We’ve seen a spate of new public inquiries in the past few weeks,’ Prime Minister Cameron told The House, ‘so it’s clear we need another one to find out once and for all whether the British public really are ‘institutionally inquisitive’ as some newspapers allege, or whether it’s just one or two rogue nosey-parkers.’

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Posted: Aug 25th, 2011
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GCSE student devastated after being awarded a grade B

While pupils celebrated record-breaking GCSE results today Linda Chaplin was left shocked and disappointed after being awarded the first grade B in the UK for nearly thirteen years.

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Posted: Aug 25th, 2011
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Scientists confirm couple’s baby ‘actually IS centre of the universe’

Physicists have confirmed that there is in fact a centre of the universe and that it is Benjamin James Milton, an 18-month old toddler from Knutsford, Cheshire.

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Posted: Aug 25th, 2011
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Gaddafi to return home early from holiday to sort out unrest

will have to get back to that Dan Brown novel when this is all overGaddafi has promised that detention centres and torture chambers throughout Tripoli would remain open through the night to bring those guilty to justice.

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Posted: Aug 25th, 2011
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Defiant BBC veteran war reporter Simpson vows to carry on

‘They say I’m finished. I’m not finished,’ said a defiant John Simpson today from the underground security of his secret HQ in Tripoli. The legendary reporter, who came to power in 1969 after a bloody coup at the BBC, was speaking on the lunchtime news as the forces of the Young Correspondents Coalition inched ever closer through the war-ravaged Libyan capital.

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Posted: Aug 24th, 2011
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