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Red Nose Day appeal: Help to save a comedian’s career

Comic Relief founder Richard Curtis has spoken out about the many comedians who rely on the aid of Red Nose Day to sustain their careers and offset their tax liabilities.

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Posted: Mar 14th, 2013
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UK poor people must do more to help kill foreign poor people, says Defence Secretary

Defence Secretary Philip Hammond says that poor people in Britain should do more to help to kill poor people in other countries by taking a cut in their welfare benefits to allow much-needed funds for the armed forces.

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Posted: Mar 4th, 2013
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Public condemn Iain Duncan Smith as ‘not fit for purpose’

Members of the public have attacked the way politicians such as Iain Duncan Smith are funded, saying it has led to a ‘sorry story of dependency, and has wasted taxpayer’s money and encouraged fraud’.

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Posted: Jan 2nd, 2013
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Kenyan slum-dwellers in sponsored fast to tackle UK pet obesity

Africans appalled that some of these dogs can't even stand upA shocking study by the PDSA which revealed over a third of dogs in the UK are overweight has prompted people in Kibera slum, Kenya, to raise awareness of the dangers of obesity in Western pets.

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Posted: Mar 20th, 2011
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Coalition government to define new poverty levels based on size of plasma TV

Nick Clegg’s speech will give a speech tomorrow confirming that anyone with a plasma TV under 37 inches is ‘marginal breadline’.

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Posted: Sep 16th, 2010
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