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Wife puts her marriage out to tender

asks if she can have her ring backCouncil administrator Rhona White has put her marriage out to tender, expressing dissatisfaction with her current service provider, and inviting bids from carefully selected parties.

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Posted: Mar 25th, 2013
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Pensioner mistakes mineshaft for 3D pavement art

'It's a tragedy,' said BBC Midlands news spokesman, Hardeep Singh Kohli.In a tragic case of life-imitating-pavement-art, Black Country pensioner Enoch Beasley fell into a massive mineshaft which had opened up in front of his local pub, The Miner’s Arms in Tipton.

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Posted: Mar 3rd, 2013
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Olympic joy for winning missile sites

the 'B' of the bangThere were scenes of jubilation today as schoolchildren and residents celebrated the news that their boroughs had been successful in their bids to be a host site for an Olympic surface-to-air missile launch-pad.

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Posted: Apr 30th, 2012
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Man shocked to discover wife was undercover traffic warden

mother-in-law still out there inspecting his rubbish binsA man is receiving counselling after discovering his marriage was an elaborately orchestrated sham set up by the council so his ‘wife’ could log his minor parking misdemeanours.

‘We had two lovely kids, everything was great. Then, just after our third anniversary, she issued me with 148 parking tickets and £26,000 of fines!’

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Posted: Dec 30th, 2011
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Dale Farm travellers face barrage of demands for feedback about council services

Expensive paperwork. Dale Farm residents 'could do it cheaper'.Mr Derek O’Hara, a former resident of the controversial site, described Basildon Council’s customer service drive as ‘poor to very poor. I’d say 3 out of 10’.

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Posted: Oct 19th, 2011
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