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Coalition plans to cut Benefit of the Doubt

A leaked document from the coalition’s mid-term relaunch has revealed that the government intends to remove the benefit of the doubt for personal taxpayers while increasing it for larger corporations.

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Posted: Jan 8th, 2013
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Infant carol singers booed for ‘being rubbish’

‘These kids were rubbish at singing and we felt compelled to tell them so.’

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Posted: Dec 22nd, 2012
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First Gay Marriage for ‘Nick and Dave’ from Westminster

Dave vowed to agree with NickNick Clegg and David Cameron made a public demonstration of their commitment to gay marriage yesterday by formally tying the knot at Westminster Abbey. The happy couple make their vows before immediately breaking them in front of millions of TV viewers.

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Posted: Dec 11th, 2012
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World’s last ‘Trimphone impersonator’ dies, aged 97

‘My aunt would jump up from her chair and dash into the hall. She’d sit down at the telephone table, pick up the phone, and say in her poshest voice, “Bishop’s Stortford 7849, who’s speaking please? Deirdre, is that you love? Speak to me, pet.”

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Posted: Dec 9th, 2012
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Christmas Card industry paralysed as entire nation ‘waits to see who sends us one’

Greeting card retailers and the mail rooms of Post Offices across the country were described as ‘eerily quiet’ in early December, as the usual rush to send Christmas cards failed to materialise and the entire population of the UK decided to ‘wait and see who sends us one first’ instead.

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Posted: Dec 8th, 2012
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