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Tesco bans customer after successful self-service till transaction

A shopper in London has been banned from entering any Tesco store after successfully completing the self-service checkout process without staff intervention or attempting to damage the machine.

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Posted: Jan 13th, 2010
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Terror group to improve media image with piano playing kitten

hopes high it will be a YouTube hit‘Our latest recruit, ‘Jihadi Kitten’, may not be the best pianist, but she has a strong desire for martyrdom.’

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Posted: Aug 16th, 2009
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‘We do judge you’ admit pharmacists

'I know everything. You disgust me.'Although sales assistants are trained to smile sympathetically at customers as though they’ve seen it all before, by the time someone leaves the shop staff will have reached a damning verdict on their character.

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Posted: Jun 6th, 2009
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Couple cross Severn bridge without single reference to the £5.40 toll charge

just paid up and drove on ‘John handed over the right amount to the toll guy, thanked him and drove on’.

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Posted: May 28th, 2009
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Left Luggage; ‘My terror suspect hell’

An innocent black Samsonite briefcase has spoken out after being detained without charge by British Transport Police under anti-terrorism laws. The bag was situated on the concourse of Heathrow Airport’s Terminal 2 at around 10am, and by 10:15 the item was surrounded by police and sniffer dogs.

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Posted: Apr 12th, 2009
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