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Gordon’s Second-hand Monkey Faeces Emporium issues profit warning

it's an ill wind...With Britain’s high streets in terminal decline, there are fears that another household name is facing financial trouble. With 2,684 outlets across some 35 towns, Gordon’s Second-hand Monkey Faeces Emporium could be staring at its last buck.

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Google start ‘real world’ target-based advertising

google bus stopInternet search and online advertising giant Google has decided to enter into the ‘real world’ market with targeted advertising on billboards and bus shelters. The digital displays utilises users’ mobile phone GPS and browsing history to display life-sized adverts that are user specific.

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Yodel to offer choice of seasons for redelivery of parcels

Delivered straight to your door, whenever.Utterly useless courier business Yodel is to offer customers who missed their first delivery the choice of spring, summer, autumn or winter for Yodel to attempt the delivery again.

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First-time buyers struggling to raise deposits for season tickets

An industry survey has revealed that almost half of prospective buyers believe it will take them seven years or more to raise the deposit they need to purchase a season ticket allowing them to travel to work by train.

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Supermarkets to hide everything under the counter in new public health drive

heading off arterio-sclerosis and 'time-bomb' flatulenceThe Department of Health said the move was in response to evidence that everything promoted and sold in supermarkets can encourage adults and young people to lead unhealthy lifestyles.

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