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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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Whale gives birth listening to CD of humans shouting at each other


‘We’d tried the sound of gently lapping waves, birdsong and Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony and none of it was helping the mother whale in the slightest.’

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Posted: Nov 5th, 2010
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Police abandon aerosol CS gas sprays in favour of ‘roll-ons’

'get your arms up!'After protests from environmentalists, Gloucestershire Police are to stop using CS gas sprays on violent suspects and will carry a deodorant-style roll-on version instead.

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Posted: Jun 6th, 2009
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Amazonian Indians delighted with hardwood garden furniture

‘I don’t know how they do it at that price.’

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Posted: Jul 7th, 2008
More from Environment, World News