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Facebook criticised as man impersonates a girl who pretends to be a man

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Social networking website Facebook has come in for stiff criticism after a 45 year-old man, working for the Daily Mail, used the site to pretend to be a 14 year-old girl who in turn was impersonating a 45 year-old man.




Police defend ‘ignore it until it goes away’ crime fighting tactics

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Police have defended themselves against criticism by Denis O’Connor, the chief inspector of constabulary, by saying that ignoring crime problems in the vain hope that they will go away is a long established policing tactic.




Learner drivers to be told being hit by a train is a ‘bad thing’

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The driving test should have compulsory questions on the basic laws of physics, and the effects of banging a rapidly-moving metallic train into your Vauxhall Corsa, Network Rail has said.




Calls for tighter controls on socially unaware dogs

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There have been renewed calls for tighter controls on annoyingly over-familiar dogs today after a border collie persistently sniffed a Doncaster man’s groin during a social occasion.




Civil servants strike over teeny weeny ‘three times salary’ redundancy pay outs

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Up to 270,000 civil servants have begun a 48-hour strike over redundancy pay, claiming that reducing payouts to between two and three times their salary - tax free - is just plain mean.




Met Office to stop pretending it has any clue what the weather will be like next month

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The Met Office is to stop publishing seasonal forecasts, after it came in for significant criticism for its practise of plucking long range predictions from a large tombola labelled ‘entirely plausible sounding types of weather’.




Teenage boys delighted with current levels of media sexualisation

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The nation’s teenage boys have responded to a report claiming that there is an over-sexualisation of today’s children by stating that they are perfectly happy with the current levels of sexual imagery, thank you very much.




Latest opinion polls show drop in support for opinion polls

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The latest series of opinion polls released today show a significant fall in the popularity of opinion polls, with support for opinion polls down 7% on a series of opinion polls taken just minutes earlier.




Faith schools to teach how sex is much better when you involve God

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Ministers are accused of caving into religious organisations and allowing faith schools to teach sex education however they like, including an explanation of how sex is really much better if you involve God.




Site of really old thing pretty much where we thought it was all along

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The true site of one of the most decisive battles in English history, the Battle of Bosworth, has been revealed as being almost exactly where we thought it was all along.




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