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"We wouldn’t expect communities and businesses to start up with electricity or roads or water."
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(From http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Home/...)
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Posted by JT on 15 Aug 2011.
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You wouldn't? I was under the impression they were considered fairly essential these days.
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Posted by JT on 15 Aug 2011.
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Hey, who needs water when you've got superfast broadband?
It kind of reminds me of that "One Laptop Per Child" scheme. Sure, give them all laptops, so they can get on the Internet and read about how much better off they'd be if they had fresh running water rather than a bloody computer.
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 15 Aug 2011.
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"Nudists seek new membership to revive flagging membership" (The Times)
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Posted by JT on 10 May 2011.
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"I'm here to represent children who have been abused by various organs of the Catholic Church..."
(spokesperson on the BBC)
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Posted by JT on 6 Feb 2011.
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I saw this one in Private Eye last night.
I saw it here first, though. Another first for Who Invented Foxes!
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 15 Feb 2011.
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Yeah, they've been copying us. Couldn't possibly be the other way round, of course, even if I do happen to be a newsagent and thus able to get a look at magazines before the general public can buy them. :-)
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Posted by JT on 22 Feb 2011.
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"UK city tops latest crime map figures. A new street-by-street online map has revealed the most crime-ridden area in England and Wales."
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Posted by JT on 1 Feb 2011.
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The most crime-ridden area in England and Wales is in the UK...? Who'd have thought it?
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Posted by JT on 1 Feb 2011.
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Clearly that area should be granted independence, making the UK a safer place to live!
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 2 Feb 2011.
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...and that, ladies and gentlemen, is why we should all vote for the Mike Party.
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Posted by JT on 2 Feb 2011.
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"...a beautiful high-flier..." (The Daily Mail's somewhat ill-thought-out description of a woman who committed suicide by jumping off New York's Trump Place skyscraper in November)
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Posted by JT on 17 Jan 2011.
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Tabak was charged with murdering Yeates some time between 16 December and 26 December. She disappeared on 17 December and her body was discovered on Christmas Day.
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Posted by poppy on 24 Jan 2011.
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From the Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/jan...
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Posted by poppy on 24 Jan 2011.
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Should we perhaps have a "News" category too?
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Posted by JT on 24 Jan 2011.
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Yes, I think we should. Hey, Poppy, you got us to create a category, so you can pretend it's yours if you like :)
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Posted by Wrongfellow on 25 Jan 2011.
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