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January 2009

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Happy New Year
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Turning Bad Wine into Good
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Shopping in the Sales at PC World
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£100bn Overdraft
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Snow
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Beaver on the Loose
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Fear Me I Am Thor
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Its Cold Outside
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Self Assessment Tax Scam
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Asda Launches £20 Suit
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Netbooks: The Next Must Have Item
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Some Good News for England Fans
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Big Cats are Out There
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Pets on Prozac
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Boots Made From Carrier Bags
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£1 Diet Pill That Can Help You Drop a Dress Size
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Where Do You Sit on the Bus?
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Diamond Encrusted iPhone
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Snowflakes Under the Microscope
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Sales Traditional Lightbulbs Soar
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M&S to Sell £99 Laptops
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Three Point Turn Goes Wrong
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Man Solves Rubik's Cube After 26 Years
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Bride Advertises for Guests
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Girl Sends 14,528 Text Messages in Just One Month
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Unlocking Songs in Rockband
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Council Spends £65K to Learn How to Save Money
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Could Coffee Cause Hallucinations?
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A Show Home With a Difference
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Bad Posture: Get an iPosture
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Dog Training
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How Many Cats is Too Many Cats?
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Calorie Content Could be Printed on Restaurant Menus
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People Who Dress up Their Pets Could be Prosecuted
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£7.2m of Lottery Wins are not Claimed
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The Birds
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Sainbury's Bans Battery Eggs
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£1000 for Your Old Car
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A Dark Day for Grey Squirrels
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Would You Watch Porn at Work?
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Poor Froggies
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February 2009

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A Day's Calories in One Doner Kebab
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Snow
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World's Fastest Electric Car
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Cool Hedge Whale
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Allergy Advice: Contains Milk
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Woolworths to Live Again Online
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Early Humans Could Crack Nuts With Their Teeth
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Cardboard PC
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Roasted Rack of Lamb with a Herb Crust and Rosemary Jus
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45ft Snake Fossil Discovered
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Grandmother Fails Written Driving Test 771 Times
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Artful Bras
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Cautionary Tales if You are Planning to Pop the Question in Public
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Perfect Pork Crackling
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More People Ignoring Level Crossings
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Battery Powered Motorbike
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Cow Struck by Lightening
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Building New Homes on Flood Plains: When Will They Learn?
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Heart Shaped Island
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Women Ends up in Puerto Rico Instead of Costa Rica
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Valentines Day
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Turning Everyday Objects into Art
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If you are Robbing a Petrol Station Remember to Fill Up Whilst You are There
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A Bumper Year for Domino's Despite the Recession
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Drinking Wine Can Increase the Risk of Cancer
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This is Why You're Fat
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How Much Would You Pay for Pic 'N' Mix
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"Extinct" Bird Eaten
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Meet The Stig
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Pancake Tower
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An £18 Wedding Ring for Those on a Budget
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The Type of Exercise you do Dictates the Food you Want to Eat
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Portable Sandwich Toaster
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Office Space With a Giant Slide
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Barman Cooks Pub Takings
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Three Cups of Tea Can Reduce the Risk of Stroke
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March 2009

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The Real Cost of an Affair, £8,000 Apparently
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An Egg a Day Could Lower Your Blood Pressure
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Is Your Stain Remover Worth the Money?
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An MA in Beatles Music
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£1000 Crystal Encrusted Cat Flap
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The Ugliest Cat Ever: What do you Think?
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Call for More Feline Blood Donors
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£15million Energy Self Sufficient Mansion
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Forests in the Sky to Combat Pollution
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Dreamtime Bath Melt from Lush
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Men in Tights: Leggings for Men
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A Hotel for Frogs
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Quick Drying Swimsuit
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Which Will Win Crocodile or Shark?
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Man Sails From Cornwall to Australia in a Homemade Boat
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Woman Buys Sofa With Cat Included
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Instant Eggs
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Brain Starts to Decline at 27
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Pub Offers Honesty Pint
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Computer Programmer Installs USB Drive in Finger
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Too Fat to Work: Solution Try Eating less
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Poor Pigeon
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A Plaster that Warns you before you get Sun Burn
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More Gadgets in Body Parts
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Spud the Hedgehog With no Prickles
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Pizza Vending Machine
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Flying Car
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Low Energy Bulbs Can Cause Skin Disorders
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Ziggy the Painting Dog
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Another Case of Blind Reliance on Sat Nav
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This is why You are Fat
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The TV That Sleeps When you do
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Wii Becomes the Fastest Selling Console Ever
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Pictures of Everyday Objects Being Hit by Pellets
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The Correct Usage of Loose and Lose
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April 2009

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Finding Jeans That Fit
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The £5 Lobster from Lidl
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Scientists Produce New Evidence That Shows Red Meat Can Damage Health
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America’s Most Expensive House Now on Sale
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British People Concentrate on Paying off Debt
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Time for a New Car?
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Do Opticians Underplay Laser Eye Surgery Risks?
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£1000 Easter Egg
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Large Cat Pictured Near Uxbridge
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PS3 Gamers Prefer Games to Sex
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Woman Mistakes Nail Glue for Eyedrops
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Cheap Easter Eggs as Glut Drives Down Prices
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Mans £30 Bet Wins Him £65,000
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Sainsbury’s rename Pollack and Call it Colin
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Credit Card Rates Are the Highest for Two Years
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More Large Cats in the UK?
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Bristol City Council to Raise its Own Cattle
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At 99p a Bikini That Won’t Break the Bank
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Fast Food Chains to Display Calorie Content
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People Return to Batch Cooking to Save Money
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An Ice Free Arctic Within Ten Years
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Tweeting Cat Door
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Vegetarian Cat
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Is Getting a Tan Really Worth Contracting Cancer?
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£2,000 Swimsuit
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Evidence Finds That Red Squirrels Return if Greys are Controlled
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How to Cook Snails
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One in 20 £1 Coins is Fake
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Is Honey the Best Cure for Hayfever
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Suit Made From Plastic Bottles
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$1.5m Wedding Dress Made of Peacock Feathers
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Happy St George’s Day
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Men Use Cheese Knife to Rob Wine Shop
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Wine Sales Plummet as People Feel the Crunch
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Books on Demand
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£16 Hi-Fi Voted the Best on the Market
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Spanish Estate Agents Offer a Free Divorce Lawyer with New Homes
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No More Giant Shoes for Clown Under Health and Safety Rules
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Woman Saved from Bullet by her Bra
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Ryanair May Charge Fat Tax
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Luxury Plane Hotel in the Jungle
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Growing Vegetable in London’s Space Spaces
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Airline for Pets
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May 2009

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Being Fat Causes Global Warming
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Is the Scrappage Scheme Enough for you to get a New Car?
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A Cure for Blindness Could be Just Six Years Away
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Couple Have Sex on Queens Lawn: One is not Amused
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Look 30 Years Younger in Two Weeks With New Miracle Facecream
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When is Thin Too Thin?
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Cat Reunited with Owner After Four Years
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The New Tomato That Could Mean an End to Soggy Sandwiches
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The Average Briton has Only Three Friends
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Beer Sales Fall
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New Sofas From Furniture Village
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Having an Affair: Here’s Not How to be Found Out
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Selling the House
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Bats Get Luxury Heated House
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£19 Wrinkle Cream That Works
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Gardeners Buy Wallabies to Use as Lawnmowers
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One Eyed Racing Cat
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Which Laser Eye Surgery is Best for You?
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Church Offers Free Weddings
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A Case of the Man Flu? It Just Might Exist
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Orangutan Escapes After Short Circuiting Electric Fence
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World’s Smallest Car
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Office Fridge Sparks Chemical Alert
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A Good Year For Dandelions
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Penny Bazaar at M&S
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The In-Car Computer that Stops Speeding
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Poor Fox
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Spider Cat Spider Cat Does Whatever a Spider Can
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Eating Honey Can Shorten Your Cold
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Are the British the Angriest People in Europe?
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Introducing the Kumato
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Cost of Tea to Rise
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Fitness Instructor Tries Weight Gain Experiment to Understand Obesity
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Half of Online Grocery Shoppers are Sent the Wrong Items
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How to Save the Planet: Don’t Eat Lamb or Drink Beer
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A Bank Error in Your Favour: What Would You Do?
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Three Year Old Boy Purchases £8,000 Digger Online
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£3 Sun Lotion From Asda
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Dog Causes Fire After He Switches on the Oven
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Invasion of the Painted Ladies
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£300,000 Spent on Research into Whether Ducks Like Water
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Numbers of Dormice and Water Voles are Recovering
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Rooks are not Birdbrains
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Jesus Image Found in Marmite
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Contact Lens that can Repair Vision
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June 2009

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Soup Can Help You Lose Weight
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Number of British Millionaires Halves
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Stinking Bishop is Britain’s Smelliest Cheese
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Big Chef Little Chef
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Cuckoo Features on the Endangered List for the First Time
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Flashing Bunny Bins to Reduce London’s Litter
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Squirrel Pie is in Demand
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Man Robs Store Using Beer Box Disguise
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Man’s Mission to Visit Every Starbucks
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Sky Through Your Xbox
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Cat Cafes
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Wild Beavers are Back
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More Than 35,000 Cars Ordered Through New Scrappage Scheme
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Hot Summer Comes With a Health Warning
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See Through Swim Suit
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First Wild Bustard Chicks in 200 Years
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Mortgage Adviser Auctions Himself on eBay
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Royal Mail Launches Tamper Proof Stamp
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Mars Bars Get Smaller
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Want an Allotment: You Might Have a Long Wait
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Tomato Supplement Could Prevent Heart Disease
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The Desktop Microwave from Heinz
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Is Broadband an Essential Service?
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How to Cut the Cost of Your Mortgage by Saving £2.50 a Day
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Desert Rhubarb that Waters Itself
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Loaf of Bread with Free Mouse
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Robot that Cooks Pancakes
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Eco Friendly Phone From Sony
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Online Fraud at Highest Ever Level
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Pret a Manger Switches to Sustainable Tuna
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Woman Bins Old Mattress Complete with Life Savings
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Dog Swallows 12 Fishing Hooks and Survives
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British Wine Sales Fall as People Cut Back
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Anti Stab Knives
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Cute Little Panthers
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Fisherman Catches Live Missile
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When Giant Parrots Walked the Earth
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Woman Calls Off Wedding After Finding her Fiance is a Porn Star
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Supermarket Checkouts Powered by Green Energy
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Meat Free Mondays
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Asda Curry Sauce with Free Mouse
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Gold Vending Machines
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2,500 Year Old Bird’s Nest
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One Dress for 365 Days
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Baby Fennec Foxes
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Increase in English Vineyards
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Sainsbury’s to Scrap Cereal Boxes on Their Own Brands
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Laser Guided Cars That Do the Driving For You
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Stoned Wallabies Making Crop Circles
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£30,000 for a Grocery Receipt that is a Work of Art
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Woolworths Lives Again Online
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July 2009

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Look Out For Undated Coins, they are Worth More than you Think
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Waitrose Budget Range Proves Popular as People Cut Back
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Get Paid to Take a Holiday
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Rare 20p Coin On Sale for £20,000 on eBay
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Supermarket Salads with More Fat than a Big Mac
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World’s Ugliest Dog
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Man Finds £100,000 of Forgotten Artwork in His Attic
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£29,000 for a Life Sized T Rex
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Plant That Fakes Illness
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Should Have Gone to Specsavers
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Solar Powered Plane
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Sistine Chapel Ceiling Recreated in Cross Stitch
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Being Slightly Overweight Could be Good for You?
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Worm Charming Championships
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Elephant Hedge
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Legless Frog Mystery Solved
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Greenfly Invasion
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Marks and Spencer Uses the most Packaging
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Fareeda the White Bengal Tiger
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Is Climate Change Shrinking Sheep?
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Why Has My Twitter Account Been Suspended?
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Cool Witch Job
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Amur Tigers Could Soon Be Extinct
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Spud Regains His Prickles
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Rhino Poaching Reaches a 15 Year High
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Cats do Exploit People
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New Breakthrough in Search of Blindness Cure
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A Man with 365 Lawnmowers
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The Ready Boiled Egg
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Back on Broadband and Blogging Once More
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Moving House
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Moving House With Cats
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Elephant Get False Foot
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So Much Wildlife
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Pedal Powered Phone Charger
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The First Cheese in Space
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August 2009

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What to do With So Many Apples?
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Drinking Milk Could Cut the Risk of Heart Disease
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Sand Artwork
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Del Boy’s Van For Sale
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Two Headed Cow
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Chocolate Bars Could be Made Smaller
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Dormice Breeding on Central Reservations
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Texting Whilst Driving Increases the Risk of Accidents by up to 23 Times
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Bike Sales are Booming
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Albino Blackbird
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Is Organic Food Better for you?
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Is Your Cat Left or Right Pawed?
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Stoatally Amazing
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Experts Declare Sunbeds as Lethal as Cigarettes
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Asda Increases the Price of One in Five Products
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Shoe Brands in Move to Save the Amazon Rainforest
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Grow Veg on the Dead
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Ice Cream for Dogs
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Alton Towers Bans Speedos
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Battersea Has Too Many Cats
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All Change for the Oxo Cube
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How Much Food do you Waste?
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Bank Account Compromised Again
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Eating Junk Food Can Make you Stupid
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Feed the Bees
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40% of Tweets are Pointless Babble
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Sea Eagles Return to Scotland
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Tesco Doubles Loyalty Card Points
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Beer is Good for You: in Moderation
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Albino Swallow
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Is it Christmas Already?
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What if Zombies Attack?
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Owl Shaped Crop Circle
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Rat Eating Plant
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Weight Loss Lip Gloss
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Dirty Car Art
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Bald Penguin Gets New Wetsuit
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September 2009

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Giant Pandas Could be Extinct in Two Generations
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Man Invents Coloured Bubbles
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Spanish Ribbed Newt
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Is the Pint Glass too Dangerous?
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Landlord Bans Mobiles
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Giant Lego House
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Sculptures Made From Phone Books
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Device to Grow Herbs Without Soil
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The Hidden Dangers of Biscuits
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Are Bunny Ears are the New Must Have Accessory?
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Data Transfer by Pigeon
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Girls Have a Natural Fear of Spiders
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Cat Meets Fox
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Sandwiches with a Difference
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Sand Lizards Released Across the UK
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Football Team Celebrates First Win Ending 90 Match Losing Streak
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Loggerhead Turtle Found in Cornish Rockpool
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Cool Light Pictures
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New Species of Giant Woolly Rat Discovered
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Short Haired Bumblebee to be Reintroduced in Britain
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Cool Bat Pictures
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Silent Disco
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Speckled Wood Butterfly
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Tall People are Happier
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All Hail the Ale
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Turtle With Coasters for Legs
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Want Bigger Fruit: Urinate on Your Plants
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Blue Man
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PS3 and the Yellow Light of Death
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Jellyfish on the Menu?
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Men in Tights
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Famous Landmarks Made from Toothpicks
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Meat Flavoured Chocolate
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Satellite Positioning Watch for Children
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Mouth Spray That Treats Migraine Pain
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Cool Hedge Car
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October 2009

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Toilet Roll Gargoyles
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Jaffa Cakes Change Shape
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Taking a Shower Could be Bad for You
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The Arrival of the MEGACAT
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2,645 Calories in One Burger
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A Bumper Year for Spiders
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How Much Fat is in Your Pizza?
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Existing Customers Only
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Plans to Legalise Parakeet Shoots
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Supermarket Refuses to Sell Cheese to Pregnant Woman
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Where Have all the Rennies Gone?
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mmm Doughnut Burger
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Giant Bread and Butter Pudding
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Cool Origami Creatures
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Saving the Red Squirrel
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Bring Your Own Toilet Roll
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Beer is the New Wine
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65% of Chicken Contains a Deadly Food Bug
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Good News for British Cheese Makers
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Gummy Bear Chandelier
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Extra Large Shoulder Pads
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George the Cat Hypnotherapist
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World’s Tallest Pet Cat
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Wii Introduces the Cyberbike
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Stress Bracelet
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A Postman’s View on the Postal Strikes
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Underwater Cabinet Meeting to Highlight Climate Change
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Snail Mail now with Added Slime
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We Have a Shower
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Celebrity Pumpkins
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Business is Booming at McDonald’s
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Ladybird Invasion
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The BNP on Question Time: What do you Think?
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Twitter Costs UK Businesses £1.38bn a Year
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Making a Movie for £45
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White Wine is Worse for your Teeth than Red
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White Lion Cubs
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New Product for Frizz Free Hair
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November 2009

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Red Squirrels Found Near Bangor
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A Recipe for the Perfect Gravy
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Good News for the all you can eat Restaurant
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Live Lizard Imported in Rocket Salad
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Watch Out for Hedgehogs on Bonfire Night
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Junk Food is as Addictive as Drugs
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Facebook Spam Emails
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Is That a Sausage in your Trousers?
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Small Cat Chasing a Large Fox
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Are Tracksuit Bottoms Trendy?
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Being Grumpy is Good for You
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Christmas Dinner for £2.78 a Head
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The Tap Water Makes me Sick
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The Death of the Roses Tin
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Is Prayer the Answer for Stressed Commuters?
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Daily Portion of Chocolate Could Protect Against Aging
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Penny Bazaar at Marks and Spencer
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Cases of Scurvy Increase in the UK
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Tomatoes Could Help you Lose Weight
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GPS Used to Save Rare Ant Hills
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Wines to Compliment Your Curry
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New Protected Zones for Britain’s Marine Life
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Eating Slowly Could Help You Lose Weight
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Increase in Numbers of Water Voles
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Man Tries to Smuggle 1000 Live Spiders
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Champagne for £10
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Rise of the Middle Class Shoplifter
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Ale Taster Needed: Where do I Apply?
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Cute Cat Video
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Green Chocolate that Can Help You Lose Weight
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The Problem With Golf Balls
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And the Word of the Year is…. Unfriend
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Worms in Space
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More Horses Put Down as the Recession Bites
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Tesco Selling Imported Cheddar as British
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Wii Exercise as Good as Real Exercise
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The Search for 100 Year Old Whisky
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Sainsbury’s £16 Champagne Performs Well in Blind Tasting
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Drinking Beer Could be Good for You
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Drug Resistant Superbugs are Increasing
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Supermarket Bargains That Don’t Add Up
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Christmas Tree Shortage
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Energy Saving Bulbs Grow Dimmer Over Time
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Burn Calories Without Leaving Your Armchair
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Campaign to Cut Beer Tax and Save Our Pubs
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Madagascan Duck Breeding Programme Proves Successful
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Cutting Your Salt Intake Can Reduce Your Risk of Stroke
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Scottish Brewery Launches Worlds Strongest Beer
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Meat Grown in the Lab
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Eat Less Sausages to Save the Planet
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Phone Box is Turned into a Library
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Snake Tries to Eat His Own Tail
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World’s Smallest Orchid
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Fat Robin
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Red Wine Could be Good for Your Teeth
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Holy Cow
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Climate Change Could Supersize Your Seafood
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Stamp Collecting Enjoys Rise in Popularity
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High Street Stores as Hot as Tropical Holiday Destinations
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Tomato Plants Kill Insects to Self Fertilise Themselves
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The Erosion of the Traditional Family
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Amazon to Move into the High Street
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Surge in Rhino Poaching
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We Have Snow
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Limitless Bra From Tesco
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Saatchi Show Won By Tree Trunk Artwork
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What’s in Your Sausage?
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Marriage is Good for Your Health
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Feeding Birds Affects the Way They Evolve
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Dress You Can Paint Yourself
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Angels Can’t Fly Say Experts
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Christmas Decoration Found Inside Cat
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Parakeets Added to List of Alien Pests
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See Through Toaster
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That’s What You Call a Bullock
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Light Emitting Wallpaper to Replace Light Bulbs
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