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Nation decides to have ‘duvet year’

will be up again in time for the OlympicsBritain woke up this morning, opened the curtains, took one look at 2011 and decided to go back to bed for the next 12 months.

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Posted: Dec 31st, 2012
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Banker learns everything would be better if he’d never been born

'Bedford Falls. Wallet Gains'Former Investment Banker, Henry F. Potter, was shocked to discover that life for everyone would be much, much better if he had simply never been born.

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Posted: Dec 22nd, 2012
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Police step up hunt for missing debt target

‘She shouldn’t be hard to find because of her size’ said Detective Tom Bowler ‘If any member of the public has information regarding a 6 billion pound debt target please ring either Crimestoppers or, better still, the Treasury.’

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Posted: Dec 6th, 2012
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Robert Peston’s smugness growing as world nears economic meltdown

models his voice on fluctuations in the stock market - currently very deep‘We’ve tried to get him doing some positive stories about economic growth, but he thinks he’s the poster boy of economic Armageddon.’

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Posted: Nov 3rd, 2012
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Dancing in the streets as double dip recession ends

‘With the economy rising 1% in the three months to September, the years of austerity are over’, said chancellor George Osborne to a cheering crowd, from an upstairs window at number 11 Downing Street. ‘Let the celebrations begin!’ Londoners needed no further excuse to go on the kind of spree that the capital hasn’t witnessed since VE Day.

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Posted: Oct 27th, 2012
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