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A charity calendar featuring fully clothed women posing in and around Cheltenham’s Pump Room is making waves around the world after it appeared on YouTube.

The 2010 calendar, in which twelve Cheltenham ladies pose in a variety of strategically placed modest camera shots wearing only tweed twin sets, has received orders from as far away as Yorkshire pit villages. Ex-miner Tom Bristow, 78, said: ‘I’ve ordered a dozen for me and me mates down at the Labour Club. They’re proper lovely calendars, with the Cheltenham ladies reclining outside the Pump Room or going about their daily chores like knitting or making jam, and dressed only in body-hugging tweed twin sets and wearing pearls. We’ve never seen anything like it up here in these parts.’

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An unusual romance may be about to make US legal history. Leila Fay-Baker, a Wisconsin correctional officer, who fell in love with an inmate and plans to marry him, is expected to overturn a decision to fire her from her job at the Mount Gully prison facility in June of this year.

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Brian Nayar and Mark Bridle, once the greatest of friends have now become the fiercest of enemies after a series of disagreements over a shared memory from their formative teenage years in which one of them apparently urinated out of an upstairs window onto the head of a police officer below. After failing to come to an agreement over which one of them was the urinator and which one was talking to the policeman at the time they both feel they have reached an impasse where only astute legal minds can make the decision for them.

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While leaning in spontaneously for an inappropriate and soon-to-be unreciprocated end-of-night kiss on the cheek of Angie Denham, wife of his firm’s Managing Director, the life of 26-year-old Bill Downing re-played itself in his mind’s eye as a series of excruciating gaffes leading to this disastrous current situation.

What Downing had registered as a definite forward-lean and head-tilt in his direction as the Denhams left the firm’s Christmas do, was actually Mrs Denham saying goodbye to the manager standing next to him, while looking down to get some fluff off the front of her top. ‘The split-second I moved in for the light hug and peck I realised I’d gone wrong’, explained the nervous trainee accountant, ‘but by then I’d already clearly over-committed’.

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A 27 year-old science-fiction fan has made socio-political history by being the first unmarried man to concur with his girlfriend that his collection of action figures and limited edition figurines are in fact just ’stupid toys’.

Nigel Shortland, a Bristol-based I.T. support co-ordinator, first entered this long-running debate after taking his girlfriend Tracy Ball, 25, to the annual sci-fi memorabilia fair at Birmingham’s NEC. ‘When she returned from the burger stall she was less than impressed to find I’d spent forty quid on Battlestar Galactica original series action figure,’ he recalls. ‘The fact that it was a Commander Adama in purple robes instead of the usual blue didn’t seem to cut much ice with her at all.’

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