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The man was sitting on a bench killing time before catching the 21A back to his home in the Raverston Park area of the town when he first sniffed. A passer-by witnessed the sniff and immediately called the government emergency telephone number 444, set up for members of the citizenry to mandatorily use should they come across an incidence of public symptomology. Failure to inform on a sniffer will result in dismissal from work and legal penology.


The sniffer –‘Sniffer X- has been compounded in an unrevealed location while men in hamzat suits extract fluids from his experimental physiology, pending a lab report on his worth and viability as a human, going forward. Meanwhile, residents of Middlesborough expressed their gratitude to power. ‘Thanks to the lightning speed reactions of the authorities, I can sleep safely in the knowledge that Sniffer X might be dead tomorrow. But I will be fine.’


Pandemics occur when foreign bodies enter the human immune system and disrupt its regular uninfiltrated system of non-sickness before being passed on to people you don’t care for anyway. The sniffer had apparently paid no heed to years of clear instruction on how to be a pure body of antiseptic conformity. Many are calling for his capital punishment. ‘He didn’t follow the rules,’ said a resident holding a baby. ‘He must pay the price.’


Meanwhile, Lidl is still open. ‘We have no plans to close until official ministerial diktat. Our eggs and milk remain on sale.’ KFC also moved to qualm public fears that there might be a forestallation in the breadcrumbs supply chain. ‘So far we are still covering both boned and breast chicken pieces in breadcrumbs and a secret recipe nobody actually gives a shit about,’ said a spokesman, suppressing a sniff.





Donald Trump has announced plans to buy Basingstoke as part of his attempt to control the world. In a surprise development, the newly installed American president said the market town in Hampshire was top of his list when it comes to global domination.


“Look guys, I know Canada and Greenland are great but I really want to make Based In Stoke our 51st state”, he told a press conference in Washington. “Sorry for the rhyme there. But it bigly works, yes?”


The reasons for Trump’s proposed acquisition are unclear but there have been rumours of oil reserves beneath the Festival Place shopping centre for decades and as part of his campaign, Trump is giving away free “MBGA” caps in the town's high street.


“I'll bring in a golden age for Base Dins Toke ,” said Trump.


“There are very good people on each side. Let me buy it and I’ll do my stupid dancing where I look like a jack-in-a-box on acid.”






For the tenth year running, the Lingerie Models' Outreach Club will be bringing Valentine's Day thrills to men in old folks' homes the length and breadth of Britain.


"I'm looking forward to doing the catwalk parade in my lacy undies for these lovely old boys," giggled 20-year-old Tina, 42-24-36.


"They've done so much for our country. They fought in the war.


"They didn't? But they voted for Brexit, didn't they?"


One person determined to stay in his room all day to miss the spectacle is 82-year-old Hywel Probyn of the Pearly Gates home in Porthmadog, who described last year's event as "four hours of hellish, excruciating sexual frustration".



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