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September 26, 2008

Things are virtually back to ‘normal’ at Heathrow after a glitch in the air traffic control system caused flight chaos. Al Gore and Gwynnie have indulged in a very expensive lunch in London to raise funds for Obama. Elsewhere in the capital, descendants of Shackleton prepared to follow in his footsteps by eating a very fattening dinner. The plague of teenage stabbing has spread west – a 19 year old youth has died in......

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August 6, 2008

If you spot a gaggle of wedding-suited lads and ladettes marching Canary Wharf way this afternoon, fear not: it's no open casting call for hilarious new Steve Martin - Diane Keaton vehicle Father Of The Bride 3: Groomsday, but it is in fact a protest by narked newlyweds, angered by the closure of wedding gift merchants Wrapit, which called in administrators earlier this week. Some 2,000 couples, and around 100,000 guests, lost out when......

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March 27, 2008

Yesterday, Leicester Square was overrun by pigeons. And no, they weren't trying to dispute their 6th-most-populous-garden-bird ranking from yesterday. Best of all, nobody had to run screaming with paper bags held over their heads because these birds were paper. The 5,000 origami pigeons were part of a marketing stunt for HSBC and China Design Now. Printed on their insides were some Chinese artwork, information about the China Design Now exhibition, a map of how......

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