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Police check historic images of Oxford rioters

gang culture 'unacceptable'Oxford police are now engaged in checking images of rioting youths going back as far as 30 years in an attempt to put names to faces and bring the culprits to justice.

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Posted: Aug 18th, 2011
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Looters apologise to communities for causing two days of visits by politicians

kept asking if anyone fancied a game of wiff waffSenior looters have returned early from their summer riots to apologise to local communities across England for unleashing a wave of visits by annoying, insincere politicians.

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Posted: Aug 10th, 2011
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‘Thank fuck for that!’ says Met riot PC after hearing of Boris’s return from holiday

Riot police in London are breathing a collective sigh of relief today after receiving word of the return Boris Johnson and David Cameron from their holidays.

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Posted: Aug 9th, 2011
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Johnson in bid to thwart Haw cemetery protest camp

Last March Johnson successfully won a court action to have Haw evicted from his long-running Parliament Square peace camp and has already blocked plans by Haw’s supporters to bury him on the Parliament Square site.

But some lawyers argue that the High Court has no power to rule on dead peace campaigners.

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Posted: Jun 21st, 2011
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Cockney rhyming slang to be third official language at London Olympics

'wiff-waff' apparently rhyming slang for 'another four years as Mayor'At a press conference held today in London’s St Mary-le-Bow church, the home of the famous Bow bells that define cockney identity, it was announced that rhyming slang would be granted official language status alongside English and French at the 2012 Olympics.

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Posted: Feb 28th, 2011
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