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‘Busty Mayoress Pamela Snips Wet Nurses’ Ribbon’ reports Shanklin Argus’s newly-recruited reporter

waking the deadA crowd of bikini-clad nurses cheered as buxom Mayoress Pamela Outhwaite, 43, formally opened the Nurses’ Social Club swimming pool, writes our new community reporter who has just joined the Argus from a top national newspaper.

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Posted: Jul 11th, 2011
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Northern Lights in night sky ‘actually caused by new ring-road’

Huddersfield pensioner Arthur Davies lost no time in contacting local reporters when a mysterious orange glow appeared in the sky behind his house.

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Posted: Feb 21st, 2011
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Newspaper editor campaigns to eliminate blurred photos of murder victims

public urged to carry a decent portrait at all timesAn increase in the number of fuzzy photos of murder victims has prompted a newspaper editor to appeal for members of the public to carry a decent quality photograph in case they die in a newsworthy way. When Jan Harvey was brutally killed by a gang in Moss Side, Manchester, her partner Alan Tebbings was naturally devastated. But what made it worse for Alan was that he realised he didn’t have a good photograph of Jan to give to the local newspaper.

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Posted: Nov 10th, 2009
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Isle of Wight resident celebrates ‘miracle escape’ from yet another global tragedy

First trip to London could have been day of bombings‘If only I’d overcome my fear of flying, gone to Brazil on a whim and returned on that Air France flight, it could have been me,’ said Horace today.

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Posted: Jun 7th, 2009
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Local Council prints fake newspaper to meet recycling targets

‘With a great banner saying ‘Please recycle me’ in green across the top, we estimated that 98% of them went straight from the doormat into the recycling box.’

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Posted: Nov 2nd, 2008
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