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Children’s campaigners warn Kinder Surprise eggs ‘too surprising’

988-kinderegg eggs presented ‘unhealthy levels of suspense and a significant risk of crashing disappointment and emotional scarring.’

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Posted: Feb 24th, 2010
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Woman doesn’t freeze to death in house

An elderly woman is reported to have survived ten days of continuous sub-zero temperatures in her own home on a rough council estate in Liverpool.

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Posted: Jan 25th, 2010
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‘No record of donation’ from couple who claimed to give Christmas card money to charity

friends refused to be satisfied with vague response that it had been ‘a homeless charity’.

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Posted: Dec 19th, 2009
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UK newsagents in crisis as mainstream newspapers refuse to ’share a platform’ with the Daily Mail

Chaos reigns on the shelves of newsagents, cornershops and branches of WHSmith as mainstream newspapers suddenly announce that they will not ’share a platform with the Daily Mail’.

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Posted: Oct 21st, 2009
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Police commissioner apologises to court and pays locksmith’s costs after he locked up offender and threw away key

hanging's too good for him‘I realise now that I was acting like an idiotic one man kangaroo court, and would like to apologise to the bench,’ said Sheriff John Jenkins, after he admitted to locking up Vince Hilaire, for a minor offence, and throwing away the key.

Orignally, Jenkins tried to cliam the incident was a mistake, but investigators found an entry on a web forum, in which he told other Daily Mail readers. ‘If I had my way, I’d show no mercy to these bastards,’ he wrote, in a debate about the people who insert canned laughter into to so many of the BBC’s sit coms. ‘I would lock them up and throw away the key.’

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Posted: Sep 27th, 2009
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