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Despite the economic climate or perhaps because of it, retailers are reporting healthy sales of 2013 calendars a full year ahead of 1st January 2013.
‘Sales of year after next products are positively booming,’ reported a WH Smith’s spokesman. ‘We don’t think this is a measure of confidence in the future, so much as a reflection of the pessimistic forecasts for 2012. People just want to look beyond the next gloomy 12 months. We are categorising them as optimistic pessimists and are doing our best to cater for this fast growing sector.’

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Posted: Dec 21st, 2011
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The war against badgers took a backward step today as the Badger Rights Alliance (BRA) claimed it’s 3rd victim in as many weeks. Clive Wormley a 48 year old cattle farmer from Staffordshire was killed by a roadside badger while taking his herd to the dairy for milking at 5:30am today.

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Posted: Dec 21st, 2011
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The report singled out ‘variable’ standards of teaching and ‘low-level’ task setting – marked improvements on the previous ratings of ‘woeful’ and ‘non-existent’.

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Posted: Dec 20th, 2011
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It has been described as the ultimate feel-good story, an anthem sung by a choir made up entirely of the wives of Britain’s heroic footballers, and it has now taken the coveted Christmas Number One spot. The story has even make an unlikely star of lead singer Cheryl Cole, wife of the Chelsea left back, who has hitherto led a quiet life of shopping, gyrating in her underwear and talking unintelligibly about cosmetics.

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Posted: Dec 20th, 2011
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The reason behind North Korea’s legendary paranoia was revealed as Kim Jong-Il died this week and Christmas across the world had to be cancelled at short notice. ‘Father Christmas is dead, we are nothing and our labours in his many toy factories have been pointless.’ Wept Kim News-Reader as she spoke to the nation.

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Posted: Dec 20th, 2011
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