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Confusing energy tariffs to be published in picture book format

price of books set to go up 20% next yearIn the wake of criticism from Ofgem and from consumer groups, utility companies are to publish energy bills and other communications in picture book formats to make them less baffling for consumers.

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Posted: Oct 20th, 2012
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Millions of badger refugees flood across Welsh border

badgers Sarge, fousands of 'emSections of the M5 and the Severn Bridge were shut last night as thousands of badger refugees fled in convoy from villages in Gloucestershire and Somerset over the border to Wales.

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Posted: Oct 14th, 2012
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Badger cull halted as top chef claims ‘they taste like lobster’

stick in the fridge and allow to settCampaigners have welcomed a moratorium on badger culling, following Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s claims that the lumbering herbivores ‘taste just like lobster.’

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Posted: Oct 14th, 2012
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Rupert Bear mauls farmer to death defending Bill Badger from cull

this is not a time for poetry, ho ho.Rupert the Bear has today been sedated by armed police and transferred to a secure pen after brutally killing a Nutwood farmer who tried to shoot the bear’s close pal, Bill Badger, as part of Government plans to cull badger populations and contain the spread of bovine TB.

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Posted: Sep 18th, 2012
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Thames Jubilee Pageant to include celebratory whaling

Heavily armed Prince Philip to ask if whales 'have come far?'Fans of old-time nautical industries are celebrating yet another government U-turn, after Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman caved in to public pressure and announced that the Diamond Jubilee Pageant will include a live demonstration of whale-hunting in the Thames.

‘Tens of thousands of people will be gathered to celebrate the Jubilee along the banks of our brownest river ,’ Spelman said at a hastily-arranged press conference. ‘And now they can cheer all the louder as we turn it a much more patriotic red.’

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Posted: May 31st, 2012
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