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Litigation reality show ‘Sue the Midwife’ returns to TV

midwife crisisThe popular reality show, ‘Sue the Midwife’, returns to BBC schedules this weekend promising to deliver bundles of joy to a Saturday night audience seeking more anguish than can be derived even from the current raft of George Osborne weekend specials.

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Posted: Jan 21st, 2013
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Mayan Calendar concerned with ‘gender equalisation, not Armageddon’

New research has revealed that the end of the 5,125 year ‘Long Count’ Mayan calendar does not signify the end of the world on 21st December 2012 as was commonly thought, but rather the coming of gender equalisation in the insurance and annuity markets.

As hippies, scaremongers, and opportunist scientologists across the globe have been busy preparing for the coming Armageddon, researchers at Nottingham University have been working hard on deciphering some ancient as yet unseen Mayan scrolls.

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Posted: Dec 11th, 2012
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Barclays to sue over mis-sold protection against PPI claims

Bob Diamond, is furious. ‘I’ve seen the policy myself and disappointingly, if you actually read it, it grants us absolutely no license to fuck people over with impunity at all. That’s if you can read it – the print’s really small.’

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Posted: Apr 27th, 2012
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Personal injury claims responsible for ‘soaring’ cost of S&M, claim MPs

The price of sado-masochist personal services has shot up in recent years thanks to unscrupulous behaviour by personal injury insurance firms, a group of MPs has found. At work, not in their private lives.

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Posted: Jan 31st, 2012
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Somali pirates blame ‘Health and Safety gone mad’ for downturn

Pirates operating off the coast of Somalia have blamed ‘overregulation’ and an over-zealous attitude to enforcement of Health and Safety rules for their recent lack of success.

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Posted: Jan 27th, 2012
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