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Tanning salon’s budget ‘sheep-dip’ claims third victim

'Give me a reverse Michael Jackson, and quick!'Sharon Thwaites failed to emerge from Tan-tastic’s sheep dip-style immersion treatment on Monday. Police divers later recovered the 21-year-old’s body from the bottom of the tank.

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Posted: Jul 22nd, 2009
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Farmer admits that tractor journeys are ‘just to annoy other road users’

I do have a normal car, but why should I waste good subsidized diesel?

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Posted: Jun 11th, 2009
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Happy, uncomplaining farmer shunned by farming community

'nothing to moan about, really'The farming community is shunning a Shropshire farmer who told a local television news reporter that he was happy and had no complaints about his job. ‘Sunny’ Jim Jones, who has worked the land for thirty years, was filmed leaning against his tractor watching his herd of Friesians contentedly grazing under sunny blue skies; ‘I am up with the lark for the milking and out in the fields with the owls. It’s a great life I wouldn’t change for anything in the world.’ When asked by the reporter what he would like to complain about he stunned the TV news crew by saying ‘Well, nothing really.’

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Posted: Apr 9th, 2009
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