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Shameful sackings of Gurkhas, RAF and Navy personnel.

// Almost 150 Gurkhas are to be sacked due to defence cuts after only a handful volunteered for redundancy, figures obtained by The Daily Telegraph Hundreds of RAF and Royal Navy personnel will also...
08:53 Mon 20th Jun 201118 answers, last by em10 15:53 Mon 20th Jun 2011
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87% of new jobs go to immigrants. Did you vote Tory for that?

// In the first year of the Coalition, 87 per cent of the 400,000 newly created jobs have gone to immigrants — as Britons fail to chase work, according to new official figures uncovered by the...
23:59 Sun 19th Jun 201133 answers, last by em10 14:16 Mon 20th Jun 2011
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Muslims are integrating better than christians

Can this be true? http://www.telegraph....-equalities-boss.html...
09:49 Sun 19th Jun 201167 answers, last by Ric.ror 16:53 Sun 19th Jun 2011
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EDL founder charged with assault

// The founder of the far-right English Defence League Stephen Lennon has been charged with common assault. A spokesman for Lancashire Police said: 'A 28-year-old man has been charged with common...
13:47 Sat 18th Jun 201126 answers, last by Craftypig 04:48 Thu 30th Jun 2011
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Cowardly EDL member convicted for attacks on old men.

// An ENGLISH Defence League member who threatened two elderly asian men has been handed a suspended prison sentence. Darren Buck, 50, was involved in the demonstration with the far-right group in...
13:45 Sat 18th Jun 201147 answers, last by Kromovaracun 20:00 Sun 19th Jun 2011
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So after 10 years and many deaths we are talking to the Taliban.

// The US and other foreign powers are engaged in preliminary talks with the Taliban about a possible settlement to the war in Afghanistan, the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, has said. It is the...
10:26 Sat 18th Jun 201115 answers, last by bednobs 12:40 Mon 20th Jun 2011
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✓

[ "That this House recognises the economic, social, cultural and sporting importance of football to the United Kingdom; is therefore surprised at the paucity of representatives from the world of...
15:54 Thu 16th Jun 201113 answers, last by jno 21:14 Thu 16th Jun 2011
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English FA Cup Sponsors

The FA cup is currently sponsored by E.On, a German Company. Before them, it was sponsored by AXA, the French Insurance Group. It has now been announced that a new sponsorship deal has been reach with...
15:47 Thu 16th Jun 20114 answers, last by Manwithnoname 11:19 Fri 17th Jun 2011
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Bank kept $10million aid given to poor

A court case to open shortly in London will hear that a $10million gift for aid from oil rich Venezuela that was given to Belize was kept by a Belize Bank. The money was destined for social housing...
10:29 Thu 16th Jun 20116 answers, last by BayBoy1 18:40 Thu 16th Jun 2011
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Campaign for Real Bread

Interesting report in todays Daily Mail about the quality (or lack of it) of the bread we eat. http://www.dailymail....s-loaves-bad-you.html // ‘Once, the law was designed to protect us from...
10:30 Wed 15th Jun 201129 answers, last by ludwig 11:50 Thu 16th Jun 2011
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David Cameron announces new £814m donation for vaccinations

// "In addition to our existing support, we will provide £814 million of new funding up to 2015. "This will help vaccinate over 80 million children and save 1.4 million lives." //...
10:54 Mon 13th Jun 201121 answers, last by rov1100 19:51 Mon 13th Jun 2011
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Weekly Bin collections will NOT return

Government U-Turn of the day, and breaking an election pledge, the Government has decided that the fortnightly collection will stay. http://www.dailymail....tml?ito=feeds-newsxml Before the election...
11:32 Sun 12th Jun 201133 answers, last by Dodger666 09:15 Thu 16th Jun 2011
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Start of the silly season...

Or just a slow mews day? http://www.telegraph....at-David-Cameron.html...
20:29 Fri 10th Jun 20119 answers, last by Manwithnoname 10:53 Sat 11th Jun 2011
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Should Thatcher meet Palin?

Sarah Palin would like to meet Margaret Thatcher. Thatcher's aides are less keen, one reportedly calling Palin "nuts". Something called the Tea Party are enraged....
12:50 Fri 10th Jun 201118 answers, last by mike11111 14:25 Sat 11th Jun 2011
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Dambusters' dog to be renamed digger in remake of film

// The Dambusters dog N***r will be renamed Digger for a modern remake of the iconic film to avoid offending American viewers, it has emerged. Script writer Stephen Fry, 53, has confirmed that pilot...
12:42 Fri 10th Jun 201153 answers, last by jackthehat 11:56 Sat 11th Jun 2011
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Good news - I think?

Vince Cable says Southern Cross will not get any tax payers money. http://www.dailymail....l-Southern-Cross.html Hopefully he is right. But Dave is quote happy to do U-turns. What do we do with the...
00:26 Fri 10th Jun 20115 answers, last by ummmm 11:50 Fri 10th Jun 2011
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Caption please

Can you clever AB readers please suggest an amusing caption for the following photograph... http://i.dailymail.co...00578-901_470x288.jpg...
08:57 Thu 09th Jun 201122 answers, last by davelee 17:16 Thu 09th Jun 2011
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Lords keep on a leaping

The latest figures for House of Lords Expenses show it is costing considerably more than the discredited regime it replaced. Two Peers were caught fraudulently fiddling their expenses which led to an...
23:23 Wed 08th Jun 20114 answers, last by Manwithnoname 00:37 Fri 10th Jun 2011
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Government U-Turns round up...

The Government aren't soft on crime after all... // Plans by Kenneth Clarke, the Justice Secretary, to halve the prison sentences of thousands of criminals will be abandoned after a political backlash...
10:44 Wed 08th Jun 201126 answers, last by rov1100 20:36 Wed 08th Jun 2011
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Can anyone make sense of this?

// The Treasury is expected to rake in £1.4bn from the sale of 620 Lloyds sites and the whole of Northern Rock, in a move which is likely to change the face of UK high street banking. Investment...
09:40 Sun 05th Jun 201115 answers, last by modeller 19:27 Mon 06th Jun 2011

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