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Archive for September, 2011

Ofcom receives complaints about rational Jeremy Vine listener

Ofcom has received over 200 complaints after a caller to Jeremy Vine’s debate about cyclists gave a well thought out and balanced point of view that considered both sides of the argument fairly.

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Posted: Sep 26th, 2011
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Wall’s Ice Cream and Wall’s Sausages combine to launch ‘Lolliporks’

opening a whole new snack-and-treat-in-one marketFrozen food producer Wall’s has stunned the chilled treats world by unveiling the ‘Lollipork’, a mouthwatering frozen sausage on a stick.

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Posted: Sep 25th, 2011
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Shock report predicts 50% of all Lego figures will be obese by 2030

A five year study by Swaffham University, long recognised as the leading research institution in the country specialising in the study of children’s plastic figures, predicts that half of all Lego figures will suffer from ‘Legobesity’ by the year 2030.

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Posted: Sep 25th, 2011
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NASA to end 49-year-ban on clowns in space

clowns' discoveries of water in space by the bucket load turned out to be scraps of paperThe US national space agency today announced the long-expected reversal of their previous ban on clowns being allowed on manned space missions. Although it was relaxed in 1995 to a ‘Don’t Laugh, Don’t Tell’ policy, it still placed heavy restrictions on overt tomfoolery.

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Posted: Sep 24th, 2011
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Bored neutrino can’t get out of Switzerland fast enough

CERN spokesman Otto Heinkelman confirmed that a neutrino had travelled from Switzerland to Italy at faster than the speed of light, apparently to escape the ennui.

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Posted: Sep 24th, 2011
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